Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
After having owned two of these models, never again--
I've owned two of these players within the past two years. Both of them stopped working completely within days of the lapse of warranty. The one that died most recently was manufactured in May 2005 and in my possession for less than 11 months.  <br /> <br />The Philips Customer Service Dept is very polite, if useless and less than accommodating, and their admission that my unit was defective and subsequent suggestion that I pack the unit up and mail it back so that they can send me a refurbished one would have resulted in my spending more than I would have had I purchased a new unit. Also, there was no warranty on my replacement unit, which I did not know, and of which they did not inform me when they replaced the first defective unit. <br /> <br />In my experience, I found that the player seemed to run hot, took quite a while to load a disk, and it did not work for longer than 10-11 months before it died. However, it's true. It did play everything I threw at it, until it played nothing at all. So, if you don't mind replacing this product every 10-12 months, it's great. I, for one, will never buy another one.