Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Broke again
OK. It's been 7 month since I bought this player and now I feel like leaving a feedback. There was a lot good things said about this player, so I'm going to concentrate on something you won't find in product manual or Philips web site.<br /><br />1) JPEG viewing doesn't display the pictures on a full screen (4:3 in my case), which makes picture look stretched vertically.<br /><br />2) You can't browse menu while playing MP3. MP3 playback stops as soon as you access screen menu. This makes impossible to browse disk with many MP3s and listen some of them in the same time.<br /><br />3) Some DivX files doesn't support \\"Fast Forward\\", so you can't stop playback and resume it next day, because you going to have to watch it from the beginning.<br /><br />4) Player doesn't recognize mixed disks, I have DVD-R with two DIVX movies and few JPEG files. The player is unable to read it.<br /><br />5). Philips doesn't bother releasing firmware update to address some or all of these issues.<br /><br />6) And the most important: The player broke after 7 months. It plays for 20-30 min then the picture freezes and playback never resumes. Philips has only 90 days warranty and repair cost is $42 + shipping (which will come up to the player price!!!)<br /><br />UPDATE:<br />This is my second unit and it broke again. After 6 month of use the player stopped recognizing any disks. No matter what I put in I'm getting \\"No Disk\\" message. Let me open the count of broken units I know, 2 of mine broke, 4 of my friends and 1 of my parents so it's 7. Too many for one person to know about.<br /><br />Such a shame for Philips.... No more Philips products for me...