Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
First impression
I just got this player and tested it for about 20 minutes. I am very impressed. This player played everything I put in it: JPEGs from DVD, DVD (Regionfree and pal), MPEGs (various formats -- some of them 3 years old). DVP642 played MPEG from CD (with great quality). I'm returning my Sony DVD today -- it could play only about 30% of my disks. Didn't even play JPEG DVDs!<br /><br />From the reviews here I expected a terrible remote, but it isn't that bad. Feels sort of cheap, but it does its work.<br /><br />This player did not automatically determine the type of video connection I was using (component). Green and Red colors were missing. I went to the menu and switched video connection to component from s-video -- not too much hassle but unexpected.