Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Divx Monster Player!
I have just tried this player with over 40 different Divx discs, using Divx 3, 4, 5 and XVid codecs. Great playback, excellent quality, no problems whatsoever. I have always been careful to encode my stuff avoiding QPELs and some of the bleeding edge Divx techniques (most of my encodes are bog-standard Divx 4 with Fhg CBR MP3 burned to single-session DAO CDRs) on the assumption that hardware players would lag. I suspect that many people who find this player has problems with playback of their Divx movies may have a random assortment of Divx movies downloaded from the net or copied from friends using a motley assortment of codecs, bitrates, and CD-ROM formats. <br /> <br />This player is simply fantastic value for $70. The only thing it's lacking is an ethernet/firewire/usb port for streaming DIVX over a LAN. A media slot would also have been a nice touch but I think with those added you'd be looking at $125 easy. <br /> <br />And oh yeah, it also works very well for those old-fashioned things you call \\"DVDs\\".