Another DVD player question:

[Aquajock]

From your technologically-boneheaded (but sincere) A-jock:

There was a good thread on the Vid Discussion forum about good DVD players; may I ask if there's a difference between a 5-disc player that CHANGES the discs versus one that is programmable "across" discs? IMHO, there would be a time lag between discs that are being changed out versus a program across discs, wouldn't there? Or am I totally misreading the info?

Got some good recommendations from that thread: the Pioneer 5-disc; the Toshiba SD-2805 programmable across 5 discs; the Sony DVP NC-612 programmable across (5?) discs.

Any non-Luddites out there with insight for this ole Aquajock?

Thanks!

A-jock
Still Have Most Of My Teeth

 

[sueter]

I use the DVD in my computer, so I'm not speaking from actual DVD experience, but I can extrapolate from how CD players work. The bottom line is that the disc has to physically change in both cases. Both machines would spin around and grab up a new DVD and that takes a second or two. When you program across discs, there will still be a pause while the first disc is automatically changed out for the new disc.

The difference between the two machines is that when you program a sequence, in one machine you are restricted to chapters in the current disc and in the other machine you can choose from chapters in any of the discs.

The other thing to consider is that most machines don't remember your programming, so you'd have to reprogram every single time. You might find it just as easy to manually jump to where you want to go.

I've got a multi-CD player that has a randomize function on it. I tried to use that as "going to sleep" music, but the sound of the changing discs every couple of songs kept waking me up!

 

[SteppingFool]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Dec-11-02 AT 01:36PM (Est)[/font][p]I'm not technically savvy on this either, but I would assume a 5-disk player stores 5 disks in the player, but only 1 is in the 'cradle' where it is playing. Having said that, when you program across 5 disks, you will see a time lag where the player will switch disks in the 'playing' cradle. The benefit of having 5 disk player vs one is you don't have to open/close the player every time you change disks... and have to go over the FBI warning, re-program, etc. So the time lag for a 5 disk player will be significantly small though still noticeable.

I'm not sure whether there is such a thing as a 5-disk player which puts all of the disks in the playing cradle; therefore, no disk switching time lag... somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Haslina