Customer Reviews
Sony Upconverting Progressive Scan DVD 
2008-04-04
Excellent product. Image quality is definitely improved. Still looking forward to purchasing a Blu Ray player though, because you will still be playing SD DVDs which do not have as much information as a HD disc does.
Try this before going Blu Ray 2008-03-18
This inexpensive DVD player does a tremendous job of upscaling DVDs to 1080P using HDMI. If you get close to your HDTV, you can see some conversion artifacts, but back about 6 feet from my 40" Sony 1080P Bravia, the arifacts are negligible.
Yes, Blu Ray discs are superior, but not enough so to make me replace my DVD collection.
ABSOLUTELY SATISFIED! 2008-03-18
This DVD is near-perfect. Set up is easy, the picture is outstanding, and it will play all my JPEG discs, whether CD-R, CD-RW or DVDs. You can adjust the picture mode for DVDs to your liking, changing the brightness, contrast and sharpness. And for the JPEGS, there are several different modes to change from picture to picture. Also, get this: if I take a DVD totally out of the player, then put it in later, it starts where it left off. I love this thing.
It does what it says it will do 2008-03-13
For some reason the idea of a DVD player that upgrades standard DVD to simulated HD DVDs seemed a bit suspicious. I had just replaced our old tube TV with a 40" LCD HDTV. The old DVD player seemed to give OK results, but curiosity got the best of me. I chose the Sony only because the TV was a Sony. Other, less expensive brands may be just as good.
With both DVD players hooked up to the same TV I could try the same DVD in both and see if there was any difference. There was. The picture with the Sony upscaling player was noticeably better. There is a lot less pixilation. But, do not expect miracles. It does not get to Blue ray level of clarity.
I am quite happy with it until a) the price of Blue Ray players comes down and b) there are a lot more Blue Ray discs available.
Disappointed 
2008-03-10
I recently purchased a AQUOS LC-52D82U 1080p LCD television. I had the regular DVD players and wanted to improved the DVD player without going to the expense of the HD or BLUERAY systems. After some research, I decided on Sony DVP-NS77H/B 1080p Upscaling DVD Player. It seemed like the best for the money. Set up was not difficult, nor is the use of the controls. What I found disappointing is the difference, or lack thereof, in the picture. My daughter and I both have copies of The Lord of the Rings DVDs so I used them as a test of picture quality . Leaving my existing player attached to the TV, using the traditional plugs; I connected the Sony Upscaling DVD using HDMI cables. I placed both into operation and switched back and forth between the two in-sync systems. The quality of the pictures were basically the same. Maybe a little more detail was available on the CGI parts of the system, but nothing like I expected.
Still, it is a good DVD player, just not what I understood it to be...
Service from AMAZON, however, is exactly what I expect, which has always been excellant!
Only because no stars wasn't an option 
2008-07-09
We purchased this DVD player at Christmas. From day 1 the picture was very stretched vertically. This happened on every DVD we tried. We learned to live with it. We really aren't picky.
We've just passed July 4th and now the DVD player won't recognize any DVD or CD AT ALL. We contacted Sony and were told that we would need to send it in for warranty repair. BUT, they wanted us to pay $36 + shipping for the repair to be completed under warranty.
(I know, that didn't make sense to me either.)
Now sending it in for warranty repair is another roll of the dice. The representative explained that they may not even send the original unit back to us. They may send us a comparable unit. What is a comparable unit, we asked. The response that we got was that it would be whatever they decided to send us at the time. They did state that it might not even be the same model. Not much of a warranty repair on a player that lasted 7 months.
And now thanks to Sony, the search begins for a new (non-Sony) player.
Great player for under 100 bucks 2008-06-12
I got this to go with my 61" Samsung DLP and it looks great. Have not compared side-by-side with Blu-Ray but regular DVDs seem to be converted to hi def.
OK DVD Player 2008-05-04
This DVD player was a decent deal. The video quality is good and it remembers the last place on many DVDs to pick up at that point. The biggest negative that I can say is that it starts up slow and is slow to load in a DVD. It may be due to the advanced features loading. It tricks us sometimes by making us think that we didn't hit the on or off button. It's OK.
Another great Sony Product 2008-04-07
I have always had great success with Sony products and have always leaned towards them as a first option when purchasing new. Our previous DVD player was a Sony and had lasted for 11 years, through 3 young children and a move to a new house. The pick-up inside the unit was shot and it was time to shop for another.
I'm very pleased with the DVD Player, it's ease of setup and it's flexibility of controls during playback. The picture is graet and the sound is much more balanced than our previous Sony. As a bonus, all of the Library DVDs now play flawlessly, which really satisfies the 3 young children.....
two for one deal 2008-04-06
I was very disapointed in Amazon for linking this with my new LCD television as though it were a good deal. I was not familiar with these DVDs that upscale to 1080.. but leared i could get virtually the same thing from sony for half the price.
