Question about Sony DCPs

[dignifyde]

I'm new to this group and also pretty new to DVD playing. In the past year I've bought two DVD players, a Toshiba and a Cyberhome. Both of them have been extremely troublesome and almost all of the DVDs I've rented or purchased have been very hard to view. They hang up, skip great hunks of a movie, and/or get all pixelated (SP).

I decided to get a Sony since I've had good luck with Sony TV sets. I found one at Costco with the model number of DVP-NS41P. Just to double check on its specs I searched the Sony site and many others looking for this model. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere except at Costco and Sam's Club. The specs and the box are exactly the same as the Sony DVP-NS50P which I find everywhere, online and in several stores.

The mystery of the NS41P is driving me crazy. Why doesn't Sony even show one on their Web site? Is it a special model made for the giant so called warehouse stores? If so, is it lacking something? Or, maybe even better than the one with the number acknowledged by Sony because Costco and Sam's are so big?

There would be no problem with getting the NS50P from somewhere other than Costco and Sam's except for their liberal return policy. With two out of two being bad sets so far I am a bit skittish about the next one.

Anyone got any ideas about the NS41P vs the NS50P?

Thanks,

Dignifyde

[setarip]

Welcome to the Digital Video Forums of Digital Digest

Click on this link to see some information regarding the NS41P:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22NS41P%22+and+%22SONY%22&btnG=Google+Search

I've owned a couple of SONY standalone DVD players over the years. If I can suggest, although SONY puts out an excellent (although somewhat "finicky" and overpriced) product line, you might want to consider a standalone player that has more capabilities (such as playing MPEGs, DivX-compressed .AVIs, XviD-compressed .Avis, as well as DVDs, CDs, VCDs, SVCDs, and .MP3 audio).

One such standalone player (I presently own one) is the excellent Philips DVP 642, that retails for an amazingly low $60 or so in the U.S.