400-Disc Blu-ray Changer: The Sony ES BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray Disc MegaChanger can store and play 400 Blu-ray Disc movies, DVDs, and CDs, allowing you to free up valuable shelf space and relocate all your discs to one convenient, easy-to-access location.

Rental Slot: Quickly insert and start watching a movie right away with the dedicated rental slot. In addition, a button on the player gives you one-touch access to the rental slot for quick loading or ejecting.

Disc Compatibility: The Sony ES BDP-CX7000ES is compatible with many disc types:

• BD-ROM: pre-recorded Blu-ray Discs (including DL)
• BD-RE/BD-R: recordable Blu-ray Discs (including DL)
• DVD-Video: pre-recorded DVD
• DVD-R: record once DVD (including DL)
• DVD-RW: rewritable DVD
• DVD+R: record once DVD (including DL)
• DVD+RW: rewritable DVD
• CD: pre-recorded CD
• CD-R: record once CD-DA
• CD-RW: rewritable CD CD-DA

Note: Like DVD, BD uses region codes. The region code on your disc must match the region code on your player, otherwise the disc will not play. The BDP-CX7000ES is Blu-ray region A and DVD region 1. Blu-ray Disc uses the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) to prevent unauthorized recording of copyrighted material.

Blu-ray Disc Overview: Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a new high-definition disc format designed to take advantage of today's high quality HDTVs. The resolution is up to 1920 x 1080 (1080p) and the data transfer rate is up to 54 mbps. Blu-ray Disc discs and players offer several advantages over the standard DVD format:

• Better picture quality: Blu-ray Disc is a true high-definition format offering video at 720p, 1080i, or 1080p resolution. While standard DVDs look very good on an HDTV, they don't provide a high-definition signal (not even when you use an up-converting DVD player). Blu-ray Disc delivers an extraordinarily sharp, clean, detailed picture, with deeper, richer colors.
• Better sound quality: In addition to the same multi-channel sound formats you're accustomed to with DVD (Dolby Digital and DTS), Blu-ray Disc offers Dolby Digital Plus and uncompressed 7.1 channel PCM.
• Much greater storage capacity: What makes Blu-ray Disc's superior picture and sound possible is the much higher storage capacity of Blu-ray Disc discs. A single-layer Blu-ray Disc can hold 25 gigabytes of data, over five times the amount a standard DVD can hold. Dual-layer Blu-ray Discs hold 50 gigabytes, which equates to nine hours of High Definition or 23 hours of Standard Definition video, plus high-resolution multi-channel audio and the added features and material that require multiple discs with standard DVD.
• Compatibility with your current disc collections: To ensure backward-compatibility with your existing library of discs, Blu-ray Disc players use a dual-laser mechanism: a blue laser for playing high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and a conventional red laser for playing DVDs and audio CDs.

Note: As Blu-Ray technology continues to evolve, new disc types with enhanced functionality will become available. In order for you to enjoy this new functionality, you will likely be required to update the firmware in your player. These firmware updates will become available for downloading from the Internet.

Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J): The BD-ROM format supports Java for interactive functions. BD-J offers content providers almost unlimited functionality when creating interactive BD-ROM titles.

Note: In order to enjoy these interactive features, you may need to update your player with the latest firmware.

Movie Files: The BDP-CX7000ES can play MPEG2 movie files recorded on DVD-R/RW discs (Video and VR mode) and  DVD+R/RW discs (VR mode only).

AVCHD: AVCHD (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264) is a high definition digital video camera format used to record in high definition or standard definition on DVD, using an efficient data compression coding technology. The  format is designed to compress video and audio (Dolby Digital or Linear PCM) data, enabling a high definition video signal shot on a digital video camera recorder to be recorded on DVD discs, in the same way as it would be for a standard definition signal.

JPEG Playback: This unit will play JPEG still picture files recorded onto the following discs: DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-R, CD-R, and CD-RW.

MP3 Playback: The BDP-CX7000ES supports MP3 audio files recorded on DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and CD-R/RW discs.

14-Bit HD Video Processor: The BDP-CX7000ES's new 14-bit HD video processor improves standard definition and high-definition picture quality enabling extraordinarily smooth and detailed picture quality.

HD Reality Enhancer/Super Bit Mapping: By analyzing every pixel of the video coming off the disc, the player can automatically adjust the picture and enhance it to provide the optimum Image Quality. These two components of This player's chipset allows for reference quality video playback and quality. The unit's HD Reality Enhancer offers the following selectable functions.

• Enhance: Enhances the scene picture outline pixel by pixel from -3 to +3.
• Smoothing: Smoothes the gradation on flat parts of the picture; set to Standard, High, or Off.
• FGR: Reduces film grain; set to 0 to +3.

x.v.Color: The BDP-CX7000ES supports x.v.Color, meaning it's ready for x.v.Color discs when they become available in the future.

Deep Color: The Sony BDP-CX7000ES supports a color depth of up to 12 bits allowing for more accurate color reproduction than when connected to an TV that also supports Deep Color.

24p True Cinema: Movies are typically recorded on film with a frame rate of 24 frames per second. When a movie is transferred to Blu-ray Disc at 24 frames per second the BDP-CX7000ES will output that signal to the TV (if the TV will accept the 1080p/24 format) with no need for conversion.

1080p Output: Through the HDMI output, BDP-CX7000ES has a 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixel) output option, at either the 60 Hz video or 24 Hz film frame rates.

Precision Cinema HD Upscaling: Precision Cinema HD Upscale circuitry uses high bandwidth digital-to-analog conversion and processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. Additionally, separate algorithms are used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharper backgrounds with moving objects that are nearly free from motion artifacts. The BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray disc player is capable of upscaling your standard 480i DVD disc to 1080p via HDMI.

Bonus View: The Bonus View feature provides picture-in-picture capability with select Blu-ray Disc titles. You can view addition content (such as director/actor commentary) in a small display window while the movie is playing.

BD-Live: BD-Live technology allows you to download and stream bonus content such as additional scenes, shorts, trailers, movie-based games, and more from a broadband internet and home network connections (fees may apply). The BDP-CX7000ES features an Ethernet port to connect to your home network.

Note: You must have a minimum 1GB USB memory device inserted in the unit's rear-panel USB port in order to download content from BD-Live.

Gracenote Service Compatible: The Sony ES BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray Disc MegaChanger can take advantage of internet connectivity to download movie metadata such as jacket art, title, genre and cast information from the Gracenote service, and displays it in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate on-screen display.

Edit Disc/Title/File Information: You can change the information (such as title and artist name) of loaded discs.

Parental Control: The Sony ES BDP-CX7000ES offers three Parental Control settings protected by a custom user 4-digit password.

• BD Parental Control: Playback of some BD-ROMs can be limited according to the age of the users. Scenes may be blocked or replaced with different scenes.
• DVD Parental Control: Playback of some DVD Videos can be limited according to the age of the users. Scenes may be blocked or replaced with different scenes.
• Parental Control Region Code: Playback of some BD-ROMs or DVD Videos can be limited according to the geographic area. Scenes may be blocked or replaced with different scenes.

Note: You can also lock the front cover of the unit to prevent it from being opened by mistake.

Video Settings: The Sony ES BDP-CX7000ES features the following video settings.

• TV Type: You can select a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio for the unit's video output to match your connected Television's screen aspect ratio.
• Screen Format: You can select the display configuration for a 4:3 screen picture on a 16:9 wide screen television. You can select from the following.
  • Original: select this when connect to a TV with a wide mode function; displays a 4:3 screen picture in 16:9 aspect ratio even on a wide-screen TV
  • Fixed Aspect Ratio: changes the picture size to fit the screen size with the original picture aspect ratio
• DVD Aspect Ratio: You can select the display configuration for playback of 16:9 screen pictures on a 4:3 screen TV. You can select from Letter Box or Pan & Scan.

Picture Settings: The BDP-CX7000ES offers the following picture adjustments.

• Picture Quality: You can choose from three picture quality settings.
  • Brighter Room: use when the room is brighter than normal
  • Theater Room: use when the room is dark
  • Standard: use in a typical room
  • Video Equalizer: allows you to manually adjust contrast, brightness, chroma, hue, sharpness, and gamma
• Noise Reduction: This function reduces the noise in the picture. There are three adjustments.
  • FNR: This feature can be activated to reduce random noise appearing in the picture.
  • BNR: This function can be activated to reduce the mosaic-like block noise in the picture.
  • MNR: This feature can be activated to reduce minor noise around the picture outlines (mosquito noise).

Playback Memory: When you play a Blu-ray disc or DVD disc, the BDP-CX7000ES stores the pictures settings for each disc, letting you play the same disc with the same settings later. The player can store picture settings for up to 50 discs.

Surround Sound Decoders: The BDP-CX7000ES has built-in Dolby Digital and DTS surround processors. Multi-channel PCM Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD are output through the HDMI jack (when encoded on the Blu-ray Disc).

• Dolby Digital Plus: Dolby Digital Plus was developed as an extension to Dolby Digital. The audio coding technology supports 7.1 channel surround sound. Dolby Digital Plus also includes the standard Dolby Digital bit stream and is compatible with all current Dolby Digital processors using the optical or coaxial digital output.
• Dolby TrueHD: Dolby TrueHD is a lossless coding technology that supports up to 8 channels of multi-channel surround sound for the next generation optical discs. The reproduced sound is true to the original source bit-for-bit.
• DTS-HD High Resolution Audio: DTS-HD High Resolution Audio supports a maximum sampling frequency of 96 kHz, and 7.1 multi-channel surround. DTS-HD High Resolution Audio has a maximum transmission rate of 6 Mbps, with a lossy compression.
• DTS-HD Master Audio: DTS-HD Mater Audio has a maximum transmission rate of 24.5 Mbps and used lossless compression (Lossless), and DTS-HD Mater Audio corresponds to a maximum sampling frequency of 192 kHz, and maximum of 7.1ch.

Audio Output: The audio output differs as follows, depending on the source, output jack and the selected settings.

Audio Settings: The BDP-CX7000ES allows you to adjust the following audio settings.

• AV SYNC: This feature adjusts the gap between picture and sound by delaying the sound output in relation to the picture output from 0 to 120 milliseconds.
• Audio Filter: You can select between two audio filters for analog audio signals.
  • Sharp: provides a wide frequency range and spatial feeling
  • Slow: provides smooth and warm sound
• Audio DRC: The player offers four dynamic range compression levels - Auto, Standard, TV Mode, and Wide Range.

Speaker Settings: The BDP-CX7000ES offers the following speaker settings when you have connected the Blu-ray player to your receiver via the unit's multi-channel analog outputs.

• Speaker Size: Front (large or small), Center (large, small, or none), Surround (large, small, or none), Surround Back (large, small, none) Subwoofer (yes, no)
• Speaker Distance: The distance of each speaker and the subwoofer can be adjusted from 0 to 52 feet to match the physical distance of the speakers and subwoofer from the listening position.
• Level: Each speaker's and subwoofer's level can be adjusted from -12 to 0 dB in 0.5 dB increments.

Quick Start: This feature shortens the startup time from standby mode. You can operate the player quickly after turning it on.

Auto Power Off: The player automatically turns off if you do not press any of the buttons on the player or remote for more than 30 minutes, unless you are playing a disc or up dating software.

Screen Saver: The screen saver image appears when you do not use the player for more than 15 minutes while an on-screen display, such as the home menu, is displayed on your TV screen. The screen saver image helps prevent your display device from becoming damage from ghosting.

Dimmer: You can adjust the lighting of the unit's front panel display from Bright, Dark or Off.

Remote Control

Multi-brand Remote: Enjoy quick and easy navigation of your Blu-ray Disc movies, DVDs, and CDs with the ability to search and sort by title, genre, director, cast, and more from the included IR wireless remote control. The supplied remote is pre-programmed to operate this unit and a number of functions on multiple brand TVs. Once programmed, the remote controls the TV's power on/off, input select, volume up/down, channel up/down, and mute.

HDMI Control ('Bravia' Theatre Sync): Sony components compatible with the HDMI Control function can be controlled via the HDMI connection. This includes convenient features like One-Touch Play and System Power-Off.

Input and Output Notes

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface): The BDP-CX7000ES's HDMI output simplifies A/V connections by carrying video and digital audio in one cable. This unit features HDCP copyright protection technology, and must be connected to an HDCP-compliant device. If your TV has a DVI input instead of an HDMI input, you can connect this unit to your TV using an HDMI-to-DVI adapter. You will also need to connect audio cables to the player because DVI is a video only cable. The HDMI resolution can be fixed at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, or 1080p, or set to Auto, which selects the highest resolution accepted by your television. The video format can be set to Y,CB,CR (4:2:2), Y,CB,CR (4:4:4), or RGB (16-235), or RGB (0-255).

Component Video: The component video resolution can be set to 480i, 480p, 720p, or 1080i. If the HDMI output is set to 1080p, the component video output is fixed at 480i. When a DVD is played, the maximum component video output resolution is 480p.

Composite Video and S-Video: The composite and S-video outputs are always live and fixed at 480i. They can output video when playing a Blu-ray Disc.

Digital Audio Output: The Audio menu allows you to select the digital audio format that is passed through the optical and coaxial outputs. Settings allow you to transfer Dolby Digital or DTS sound tracks, or down-mix surround bitstreams to 2-channel PCM audio.

Analog Audio: There is a pair of stereo RCA outputs plus 7.1 channel outputs for utilizing the built-in surround decoders.

USB Extension Port: The BDP-CX7000ES features a rear panel USB Type-A port which allows you to enjoy additional content (such as BonusView) on certain Blue-ray Disc titles. Some BD-ROMs have bonus content and other data which can be downloaded to an inserted USB Flash Drive (sold separately).

Note: You must have a minimum 1GB USB memory device inserted in the unit's rear-panel USB port in order to download content from BD-Live. Sony does not guarantee compatibility with all manufacture's USB flash drives.

LAN (100) Port: You can connect the player's LAN (100) terminal of the player to your Internet source using a network cable (Ethernet cable sold separately) to update the unit's software using the network. Visit Sony.net for information about firmware updates.

Control S In/IR In: This is a 3.5mm input used as an IR port for adding on remote repeater systems.

RS232C: The BDP-CX7000ES's built-in RS-232 port allows the MegaChanger to be managed by audio / video control systems for full integration into a custom installed audio/video system.