Philips DVP5960 DVD Player with HDMI, 1080i Upscaling, DivX Ultra, USB direct
A big step forward from DVP642
Philips DVD players are my most favorite for two reasons, 1. they are cheap and 2. they can play DIVX and can be made region free gracefully. I am user of DVP642 for last one year and even though I enjoyed the flexibility of playing all sort of DVD/DivX files thru it, I never liked the picture quality/menu browsing much. Now, with this new model, menu browsing is much faster, discs loads way faster and not too mention picture quality also improved greatly.<br /><br />To add to my pleasure, there is a nice little USB port in front of the player, so for me, no more burning huge divx movies in CD's/DVD's. I just copy them in a USB thumbdrive and plug them in to my DVD player..voila!<br /><br />On a not so brighter side, the player does nto support DTS out of the box. But a quick upgrade of firmware fix that problem. Also, lack of S-Video out/Optical out can tick off some users.<br /><br />Overal, an excellent purchase for the price.