Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
I cancel the order
<br />At first, I was anxious to order this Philips DVP642 DVD player due to recommendation of \\"Reviewer: FERNANDO CASSIA \\"-Writer and Computer Geek-\\" (Buenos Aires, Argentina)\\", who plays DVD's from all around the world on this miracle machine. Than, I red manual that says that it converts video from PAL to NTSC only using VCDs. NO DVDs! The \\"-Writer and Computer Geek-\\" is misleading people in the USA because South America is not using NTSC system but PAL. His TV is PAL system with which this DVD unit works as described. This review is not relevant to the people in the USA who have TV with NTSC system. I do not know if the ability of the DVD player DVP642 to convert PAL DVDs to NTSC output signal would change by upgrading firmware from Philips Website, and if the upgrade would be even possible. ([...] and type DVP642) The firmware is for DVD DVP642/17 and DVP642/37, not for plain DVP642. It is possible that firmware would upgrade the player to the one that is able to play PAL DVDs on NTFS TV, but this is only POSSIBILITY and I didn't try it. <br />