Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Things that others didn't mention
Let start with the good part: <br />Things that amaze me: <br />- If you have a CD with a div-x avi file and one or more subtitle (text files) on that CD, you can select one as the subtitle. So you can have subtitles like for a DVD in different languages and with fonts for languages as Russian, Romanian,.. displaying specific letters found in their alphabet (of course if the text file has them) <br />- If you put a data DVD with mp3 or/and avi (mpeg1,2,4 div-x, PAL/NTSC )  or/and pictures you can play them all. I had a DVD back-up of my hard drive and I was able to browse , watch and listen all media files on that DVD. Imagine a DVD with mp3: to play all files once will take 60 hours of music! Or you can have six div-x movies with subtitles on a data DVD, all this with a PAL/NTSC conversion.  <br />I will not repeat what others said about how good or great it is (it is true), I just want to say regarding affirmation made by others \\"this will play everything you put in it\\" this is not true it will play only files that are in specifications. That might be all that you have. If video or audio is not as in specifications then the file will not be played or it will be played without sound or without video.  <br />Problems that I've noticed: <br />- On a DVD when jumping from the last file in a directory to the first file in the next directory with a lot of files it stopped taking commands - I had to press Stand-By. After powering up again everything was ok I could go select and play files from that directory. Maybe I didn't wait enough or the disc was dirty ?. <br />- On a certain CD with a div-x file in play mode at a certain time the DVD player will freeze (every time) and resets: \\"Loading disc\\" message appears. If 2 seconds before that time index I press play x2 and a few seconds later play normal everything was ok. Probably a disc error or a file error (downloading error ?) . <br />Overall this is a great DVDplayer and you can do and play things that you can not withothers DVD players. I can achieve more only by putting a PC in my audio video center. Also is the cheapest div-x player that I found and it has a great video and audio quality. I think that people who complain about bad sound or image they have some wrong setting in audio or video - read the manual (could be a defective unit too). <br />One more thing: There are people charging you $50 more just because they made the unit region free: All they did was pressing a combination on the remote control I don't think you should give them that. <br />