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Question: breaking after 1 year Is it just me or did anyone else have problems after warranty expired?  It kept wiping out my folder list and now it goes through one disc after another saying cannot read. It is completely useless now. Also tried to use a Sony dvd/vhs player 3 years ago after 3 returns could not get one to work and bought an Emerson instead and it still works.  After this no more Sony DVD players for me.
Document: I bought this a year ago and it just stopped playing DVDs. It says it cannot read any DVD I have anymore...and it just started doing that in the middle of a movie. CD's still work. Of course w/ Sony's support it is cheaper to buy a new one than have one repaired.Shop for a better quality player.
My purchase of the Sony DVPCX995V 400-disk dvd changer from Amazon make a total of 3 Sony 400-disk changers that I own. The other 2 still work like new. I would recomend this to anyone that likes movies, and did to one of my bestfriends. He and his brother both bought one, and love it. Now some of the negative things that you'll see in other reviews.1.
I have been a fan of Sony for 20 years.My experiance is you usually get 10 to 15 years of service from thay'er products.I did have a problem with a DVD player after only a year, but I had purchased 2 and one still works after 5. I purchased this unit approx. 90 days ago. This 400 DVD has some ease of operation issues , such as always going to the nearest selection as soon as you turn it on.
I purchased the Sony DVP-CX995V July 2005 FOR $400. I've loved that it holds 400 CD/DVD's even though I'm not a techy person at all. I've had it less than 3 years. Currently it will still play CD's, but will not play a DVD at all. It says "Cannot Play Disc". I've tried DVD's that I've played before, my Netflix movies, zippo - won't play anything. I called Tech Support and told me to do the unplug thing - didn't work.
I purchased this product a little over a year ago. As soon as the warranty expired it starting freezing before loading the DVD menu and when the menu came on all my DVD's were listed as question marks. It took me 2 hours to type them all back in again with a keyboard. This happened another 3 times before I called Sony and they told me to unplug the machine for an hour. That finally worked.
I had one unit that needed a new disc reader and my electronics guy tried for two weeks to get one with no luck. In any event, it would have cost more with labor and parts than another used one costs so I just kept it for any future parts I may need an got another one for $250.00They do not read the discs titles completely. Out of 400 discs in each unit, maybe 100 titles got read. The rest had to be put in with the keyboard.
This particular Sony CD/DVD Player, model #DVP-CX995V, will not play copies of software or other DVDs. I have tried 3 new models and none will work. Nobody seems to know why. I have two other Sony DC/DVD upconvert players (single and 5-disc) that play the copies very well. The copy software company has no solution for this problem. Sony is still trying to help find a solution
if you go to there website, there is more info on it. I dont work for them - it just love the product. I loce that i can browse through the movies based off a minture movie poster, instead of a big list.The auto play feature. When you finish a movie, you press the stop button. Press it again and you should not have a problem.Also, another piece of advice is if at all possible, keep your old dvd player connected.
I just purchased our second unit. The remote has a selector (behind the battery) that allows you to switch up to three frequency settings (3 units). We bought our first unit when it first appeared in the 400 disc model (about 4 yrs ago). I have read complaints of all the Dvd titles disappearing from the menu program list (displaying a ?)
I purchased this player a year ago. I am on my 4th one, having returned the first to due to the fact that it was completely broken and would not play at all, and the other 3 for the same problem described below.This player does work, but the problem is, it doesn't play all DVD's. It will freeze up and take 20 minutes to move 2 frames. The DVD's that I am using are in excellent condition as I am a fanatic when it comes to them.
Answer: I found a partial workaround solution for my problem (like yours) of the unit turning off a few seconds after turning it on.  I press (and hold) the Stop button, and then the On button, and continue to press them both until the blue SA-CD light and the blue MultiChannel light go off, and then back on again.  After that, the unit works !  Except that the LCD panel remains blank.  Many (perhaps all) of the front panel buttons work.  I still need to experiment to see if the remote works, and to what extent.Sony gave me the choice of a refurbished unit, or to repair mine, under warranty.  Anybody got an opinion on which is the way to go ?