Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Good looking player, nice picture but DVD-R may NOT be supported according to box.
I just wanted to point out that somewhere in the reviews for this versitile little player someone had lamented the lack of an \\"eject\\" or \\"drawer open\\" button on the remote...    There actually is such a function, but you perform the task by simply holding down the \\"Stop\\" button. After a couple of seconds, the drawer opens. I found this out by accident recently.    In the 8 months since I received this player, I have really enjoyed this machine. If I could change one thing, it'd be the location of the chaper skip buttons which are in the same cluster as the fast forward and reverse, and slow forward and reverse. It's way too easy to accidentally skip to another scene when trying to zero into a frame, and that's a time waster.    Otherwise, it's been very capable and plays back my home-recorded DVD+R media perfectly. Seems to have excellent error-correcting abilities, too.    BTW as another reviewer noted, the problem some folks have had with the DVP642 suddenly not working has been discovered to be a failed capacitor you can buy at a Radio Supply store for a few cents and solder on easily given a hobby-level skill set. Fortunately so far so good---      If this one were stolen I'd gladly replace it with no hesitation, it's a real bargain!