DVD-C750

I purchased this player as a 2005 xmas gift to the family to replace our DVD-C900 purchased the very day it was released to consumers [worlds first 5-disc DVD player at the time]. It had no problems other than needing a firmware update around the time "The Matrix" DVD was released which would locked it up [the C900 model], a firmware upgrade fixed it and never had any problems since [I have played over 2000 DVD's through it, Own over 350 DVD's and had tons of hours of use on it]. Anyhow my point is Yamaha builds good A/V gear in quality, performance & longivity. In the end, the laser is what finally died [as do all optical tech based players eventually.. this one lasted much longer than anticipated]. Having been so pleased with the C900, I replaced it with the C750 newer model and gained features such as: JPEG, WMA, MP3, SACD, CD[+/-R/RW], DVD [+/-R/RW] and DVD-Audio. Remote is improved over the C900 that it replaced [although backlighted buttons would have been nice].

Contrary to reviews I have read, this DVD player DOES have an Eject [open/close] via remote control feature.. I accidently discovered it though [its not labelled, not documented], but if you press and hold the STOP button for about 3 seconds the tray will eject [open] and say OPEN on the TV/video & DVD front panel display screen, likewise doing this when open/ejected will close the player too [also saying so on the screen/display.

The video quality on it is amazingly good [easily competing with $1000 single-disc players I've seen]. I'm a movie buff, so I have limited audio testing on this machine so far [I do not own any SACD or DVD-Audio yet, but reviewers with those 'golden' ears say it is unbelievable awesome to hear on this machine. I have it hooked up using generic toslink fiber-optic connections to my Yamaha DSP-A1 receiver which has been a match made in heaven so far.

It has a feature to set speaker volume per speaker too, but this option is unavailable for some reason. Anyone know why this is?

Overall its a great player and plays everything on the planet so far [i.e. 'Universal Player'].