Any Kenwood DV-5050M or DV-5900M Owners out there?

[Roveer]

Has anyone been able to get either of these players DV-5050M or DV-5900M to play DVD-R media?

Thanks,

Roveer

[Roveer]

I wanted to close out this thread with some information that I gathered over the weekend concerning the use of DVD-R's in the Kenwood players.

I visited a local retailer who had a DV-5900M set up and I was able to try my 'prototype' disks in their machine. The results are in:

1. 8 dollar Pioneer DVD-R played just fine, started playing immediatly (no lag time)

2. 3 dollar cd-recordable.com disk did NOT play. Tried two different 'cheapo' disks and neither wanted to run in the Kenwood.

I then tried a Sony CX860 (300+1) and Both the more expensive and the cheapo DVD-R's played. The cheapo DVD-R took 7-10 seconds of extra 'seeking' before it began playing, but it did play. I was also surprised to see the Sony play my DVD-RW without any problems.

I decided to buy the CX860. This is basically the cheapest changer out there, but for my needs, and considering it's going into a whole house video distribution system, it will do the job just fine. It also has a s-link jack that is rumored to allow the remote to control my Sony CD jukebox, so staying in the Sony family will probably benefit me a bit here.

My initial impressions on the Sony is that I can live with all the GUI shortcomings that everyone has written about. Sometimes I think people get too wrapped up in features. Personally, I just want to be able to watch a movie, not sort the movies by the directors dogs name.

Thanks to all of those folks who responded. I still think the Kenwood is a nice changer, but now I can afford a ProntoPro TSU6000 to fix all the GUI problems on the Sony and make coffee!

Regards,

Roveer