Sony BDP-CX960 400-disc BD Changer

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I have a small man-cave, so this is wonderful device is overkill. However, given my 500+ disc collection, it definitely made life easier, especially with my anxiety about kids scratching and not taking care of my discs. This keeps their grubby little hands off them. ...

Technically speaking, for most people, Blu-Ray players do not get better than the Sony BDP-CX960. Pure HDMI 1080/24 video output.Multichannel PCM audio output via HDMI 1.3 audio for Bravia-sync receivers. Digitial optical, coaxial and stereo audio for every other brand. However, there is no wi-fi for the heavy need for Internet, which you will use for the Gracenote categorization and BD-Live components. I had to move my home router to my man-cave just to avoid buying a separate wi-fi NIC for this one unit. Small irritation.

In addition, there is no native bitstream decoding via HDMI, so the 1.3 output (and if you happen to have HDMI 1.3 input on your receiver) is really not able to be used at its full potential. 99.999% of the people won't care about that though. Decoding is only to PCM, which is, frankly, fine with me. I'm not even sure I have the ear to tell difference if it was pointed out to me. Long story short, especially for early Blu-ray adopters like me who spent nearly $500 on a slow, dinosaur of a Sony Blu-Ray player, the Sony BDP-CX960 is the right price for an exceptional product.