Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
KiSS who? what? 600 dollars?? KiSS My..
i totally envy how Philips took an enormous dump on KiSS' profits with this bad boy. almost 100% of the functionalty (sans network port, but who cares) at 10% of the cost! you can't beat this thing.<br />i've noticed that a lot of people are pissy about the supposed neglect of DVD-R. let me tell you right off the bat, it works. flawlessly. i think what most people's problems are coming from is that they're buying princos off of ebay and expecting them to work. hey, you get what you pay for, and if you want to use flimsy media on your important backups and movies, you can watch them on your computer.<br />i threw everything i had handy at it- vcds work, svcd is supported but i didn't try it (tried an m2v, didn't recognize the extension..stupid me.), mpeg1 .mpg's work fine, divx's (AND XVID, YES.) work great, etcetera. tried a cd with both avi's and .mpg's.. absolutely pristine. i think this thing even supports .wmv's, i saw a windows icon next to a file on an old cd i burned, i don't remember if i tried it or not. not that that's a big deal, if you use windows media codecs then there's something wrong with you in the first place, but it's a nice little addition to have anyway..<br />to the customer below with the gelatinous looking movie: 800kb/s? are you serious? ever heard the term sh** in sh** out? the only 800kb/s's i have are the vhs's i've backed up that i could care less about other than fitting onto one cd.<br />on the other hand, the menus ARE a bit clumsy. especially the file browser, which stutters a bit and can be a pain.. and the character cutoff point is kind of trite as well. both extremely small prices to pay for this slim and sexy beast.<br />just be happy you no longer have to pay $300 and up for an earlier-named piece of junk that apparently crashes more often than windows ME ever collectively did..<br />pick this up while you can. i was lucky to find the last one, they're literally flying off the shelves at wal-mart.