Panasonic DVD-CV52 5-Disc DVD Player

I bought this player at Costco under the CV-37 model number. It immediately aggravated me with an extremely poor user interface. The remote is difficult to use, and there are virtually no buttons on the unit. It takes 5 seconds for the unit to "boot up" to where it will take a command (like "disc skip" or "open tray"). I was also amazed at how difficult it was to play a CD on random play. It requires an arcane sequence of button pushes on the remote that you will surely forget between uses (and I am an electrical engineer).I just took mine back to Costco and am now shopping for a new player that handles CD's better since this is how I use it 80% of the time. Oh, I almost forgot. The last straw was I rented a movie with some minor scratches and it wouldn't play it! I take the movie back to the store, they put it into their machine, and it played fine!

great

As an Audio CD player this unit has two big limitations: 1) POOR DISPLAY. The player only displays the track and disc #. To see any more info, you must turn on your TV. 2) SLOW RANDOM PLAY. It takes about 15 seconds to go from track to track in random play. So forget about using this unit to play random music tracks - the delay is too unnaturally long.This is a fine unit as a DVD player, and ultra slim at 3" tall. I just don't know why anyone would need the carosel function on a DVD player.

terrible, it was old and remote control missing and I had to mail it back and pay $40 out of my pocket!!!!

DVDs· I have not found any DVD this player can not playMusic Discs(CDs)· Random Play· Programmable play list· Random Play mode works both on a single disc or multiple discMP3 FilesAll of the above work an MP3 disc(CD-r)! This player has played all MP3 I have tried, however I generally just ripp MP3 from the original disc. But, for best results you should only use MP3s that have at least 128k encoding. This Unit will display the list of all titles on the TV screen with long directory and file names.In addition, I have found the unit to be easy to use.

When playing Chinese VCDs, the picture appears stretched such that the top and bottom are off the screen.

VERY SAD THAT i HADTO SEND IT BACK BECAUSE IT JUSTSTOP WORKING i REALLY WANTED ITOH WELL BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.

There are lots of 5-disc DVD/CD changers available now, and a few of them even play MP3 discs, but what sold me on this one was the fact that it will play my MP3s in random order. I've looked at about a dozen 5-disc changers with MP3 capabilities over the last few months, but the one feature they were all missing was the ability to play MP3 songs randomly. When you can cram 100+ songs onto an MP3 CD, you don't usually want to hear them in the same order every time. This DVD changer can play the tracks from 1 disc randomly, or you can load up 5 MP3 discs and have the random pick from all of them (500+ random songs). An added bonus for some people is the ability to play WMA-encoded songs, but watch out - WMA's that have been flagged as copyrighted won't play. If you turn on the TV when MP3 files are playing, you can see the folder and the first 30 characters of the song that's playing; an on-screen menu also lets you easily select folders or songs to play.Other than its MP3 capabilities, it's a pretty standard DVD/CD changer. It is not a progressive-scan player, though, which is odd since it's so new. The manual says it can play DVD, CD, Video CD, CD-R, and CD-RW, as well as DVD-R discs that were "recorded on a Panasonic DVD video recorder". Things it says it won't play include DVD-Audio, SVCD, Divx, and Photo CDs.Panasonic opted for minimal controls on the face of the unit, which probably allowed it to be fairly thin (it's the shortest multi-disc unit I've seen) but means that you have to run most things from the remote, including choosing which disc to play. On-screen menus help you set up the player and show you which special options you've selected. Oddly, pressing the Stop button on the remote or the unit stops the current feature (song or movie) but the disc remains active - you must press Stop a 2nd time to tell the player that you're done with the disc and want to switch to something else (like change to another disc). When the unit powers off, the power stays off, so there's no point in plugging it in to your amplifier hoping that you only have to use a single Power button.No changer is perfect, but the only things I've run into with this one are minor annoyances rather than actual problems. And it's great to finally find a changer with true random functionality for both my CDs and MP3 discs. If you want a single unit to function as both a DVD player and a CD changer, this one does it all for you, in a very slim package.By the way, despite what the Amazon information about this changer says, it does not have a "shuttle dial" or a "unified remote control".Pros:- DVD changer with CD, MP3, WMA capabilities- MP3/WMA songs can be played in random order from one or all discs- Change 4 discs while playing the 5th- On-screen setups and MP3 file/folder selectionCons:- No progressive scan- Must use remote for most functions