Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Excellent compatibility
This player is awesome. Its played everything I've thrown at it, both DVD+R and -R discs, plenty of media formats (including DivX!), CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and audio CDs. (Not that I recommend using this for CD playback - get a real CD player!) Video quality is excellent - far better than the PS2s and cheap players some of my friends use. <br /> <br />It can be made region-0 or macrovision free (it might be out of the box?) very easily. I flashed it with the latest firmware, and the code given on videohelp.com did the job. That helps, since the occasional DVDs I get mailed from Australia will play in this player. It can also be set to any valid region code, letting you play DVDs with active region checking. <br /> <br />If you play burned DVDs regularly - legally or not - or play overseas DVDs at all, buy this player. It does a great job with DVDs and pretty much every format you can put on a DVD-R.