Enjoy high picture quality with 1080p Full HD Upscaling function which upscales all SD content on DVDs (576i) to Full HD 1080p levels (720p/1080i/1080p). Furthermore, as the pictures generated are progressive and not interlaced, they possess twice the amount of scanning lines and have a higher resolution, which makes everything looks better.
DivX Playback
Enjoy the freedom to snuggle up in front of the TV and view your very own video masterpieces in Pristine visual quality. Formerly possible only with computers, DivX playback on the DVD players means that your own video masterpieces will no longer be confined to your computer monitor. You can now re-live the memories from your edited home movies on the TV screen.
Enjoy pristine quality pictures every time you play a DVD with 12bit/108Mhz Video DAC. What it does is minimising digital artifacts, finer picture gradations, as well as doubling the sampling frequency which allows you to see images that are closer to the original source.
CD-R/RW Playback
Enjoy the power and convenience of CD-R / CD-RW CD music playback on a Sony Product.
Custom Parental Control
Prevent your children from viewing violent or inappropriate movies by adding a 4-digit identification code.
DivX® is the brand name of the world's most popular video compression technology. At its core, DivX is a codec (short for compression/decompression) - a piece of software that compresses video from virtually any source down to a size that is transportable over the Internet without reducing the original video's visual quality.
MP3
Sony brings all Audio to the Internet Age with this system compatible with MP3 digital music files. Now you can play all the tunes you have downloaded from the web, along with your favorite MD’s or CD’s.
Multi Disc Resume (6Disc)
Stop a movie in the middle, play some music or another movie, and return to where you stopped just by pushing play. This feature remembers the resume point for 6 discs or for 40 discs, depending on the player.
Using twice the number of scanning lines compared to the more common interlaced format, Progressive Scan is able to accurately reproduce the naturalness of rocks, water and even the texture of skin. Clearly notice the difference on a large-screen TV, where scanning lines from interlaced scanning are quite apparent.
Some DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R, CD-RW/-R discs will not play due to recording quality, physical condition of the disc, or the characteristic of the recording device and authoring software.
Some DVD+RW/+R discs will not play due to recording quality, physical condition of the disc, or the characteristic of the recording device and authoring software.
The one-touch operation of “BRAVIA” Theatre Sync opens a whole new world of connectivity and entertainment simplicity, allowing full control of Sony’s home theatre system with a single remote commander.
DVD Video
Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), the next generation of optical disc storage technology, which is bigger and faster CD that can hold cinema-like video, better-than-CD audio, VCD and computer data.
It's easy to append/edit data on DVD media, even after it has been recorded* for seamless backup. And you can utilise write-once formats when you need to protect your data from being erased, or when compatibility is extremely important for exchanging and distributing data.
Video CD
This allows the Unit to play Video CDs.
