Features:

• DVD-RW/-R (video mode), DVD+RW/+R, and MP3/SVCD/VCD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW playback
• DVD progressive-scan output (480p); 10-bit DAC with 54 Mhz processing gives clear, colorful video
• Component video, S-video, composite video, analog audio, and coaxial digital outputs
• TV Virtual Sound with four surround modes
• Measures 17 x 2-3/16 x 9-1/2 inches (W x H x D)

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Sony's DVP-NS425P DVD Player brings home along with its chic style to complement your home decor. You will enter a world of sharp images and incredible sound as you experience the benefits of Sony DVD first-hand. Featuring DVD+RW/+R Playback, MP3/CD-R/CD-RW Playback, 10 Bit Video DAC with 54Mhz Processing, Dolby Digital and dts Decoding Compatible, and Component Video Output, this Progressive Scan DVD/CD Player is just what you're looking for in digital entertainment. Where style and performance meet - the DVP-NS425P.

Amazon.com Product Description:
Loaded with features, built for quality, and dressed for success, Sony's progressive-scan DVP-NS425P DVD player is even affordably priced. Could budget-savvy music and movie lovers ask for anything more? The versatile DVP-NS425P plays just about any disc out there--including DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW--as well as playing hours of music from MP3 files burned to CD-R/CD-RW discs.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVP-NS425P stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs through its progressive-scan output and 3:2 pulldown processing. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture. Composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can also be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for a simpler connection to a compatible AV receiver (but be aware that digital-audio interconnects are not supplied).

Precision Drive 2 provides a mechanism for reading DVDs that are in less-than-perfect condition, eliminating errors in playback due to imperfect, scratched, or warped discs. Past generations of Precision Drive technology were only able to compensate for warped discs by moving the entire optical block, which took more time and limited the amount of correction possible. This newer system simplifies the process by moving just the lens (instead of the entire optical block) for faster and more accurate error correction.

As soon as you hook up the DVD player, a special Quick Setup screen appears ready to guide you through configuration, step by step, screen by screen. DVD resume memory kicks in whenever you stop a DVD. Later, when you come back to it, the player will pick up right where you left off before. The player holds resume points for up to six discs.

Other playback features include 10-second instant replay, DVD/CD Text display (with applicable discs), a digital video enhancer, digital video EQ (equalization), custom parental control memory for 40 discs, as well as Advanced SmoothScan and SmoothSlow Modes.

What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control, 2 AA batteries, a stereo analog audio/composite-video interconnect, a user's manual, and warranty information.

Rating : - Mine broke like all of the others
When this player was working I really enjoyed it and was happy with it (reason for 2 stars instead of 1,) however, this machine after very little use decided one day to stop working for no reason and is now gathering dust in the basement. I've had other DVD players (cheap models) that have worked for years with no issues..I EXPECT MUCH MORE FROM SONY... Read the other reviews..just like mine, this machine breaks after a short time of use.