Hi all, I am trying to decide on making the jump from the DVP-NS700P to the new 300+1 progressive dvd jukebox that Sony is about to come out with. I have a question though about the flipping capability. Say disc 150 is Ben-Hur, which is a flipper. When I say discplay-1-5-0-play, is that going to:

1) default to side A
2) allow me to (via discrete codes) choose the side
3) play whatever side was most recently played

I am writing my own software to generate CCF's (I like SuperNudeList but it's more fun to roll your own!) and so if its complicated that's not a problem, but basically I am wondering is there a way to always make sure that I am playing side A, or side B, via a macro. But if (3) is the way these players typically work, and the only flip button available is a toggle, I guess I'm screwed.

Can anyone help?

-tom

Tom:

The Sony DVD player "flip" the disk by rotating the tray to the back of the player and then retracting the disc to spindle.

If you tell the player to play disc 150, it always starts with side A. The player always plays the side to the left.

I use SNL for my 2 Sony 400 disc players and a 300 disc DVD. 460 CDs and 180 DVDs, to bad my 1mb Pronto cannot hold all that data.

DH

Excellent, thanx, I can work around that. One more question - after doing a discplay-1-5-0-play could I immediately give a "flip" command or would that be lost while the player is rotating the discs to find #150? Or if I have to wait for the disc to actually be retracted and loaded before issuing a flip, about how long in seconds would that take, what's the worst case scenario?

-tom

Unless Sony changed the way to select a disc to play I'll save you some time and effort...To select a disc to play, you have to set your macro this way:

Display
> (Right Arrow)
"Disc number in sequence"
Enter
Display
Display
Display

Tom:

Sorry for the long delay in answering your question about flipping a disk. I had never actually tried that before. I went to try it out and discovered I had not aliased a flip button on Pronto.

I started on disc 96, it took 5 seconds for the player to eject the disc. I had told the player to go to disc 91 (using SNL). It took 25 seconds to rotate and load the disc.

I tried several times, but the player would not accept the "flip" command until the disc was loaded. If you select flip while the disk is loading, the player will display "Operation not possible."

Hope this helps.

DH