Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Picture skips and rolls!
We just wanted a cheap DVD player.  We don't play bizarre regions or formats, just one that would play typical movies from netflix.  We bought this one thinking it would fit the bill perfectly and would have progressive scan for when we upgraded to a better TV.  We hooked it up and I found that on most DVDs for part of the time, the picture would skip and roll - almost like the vertical hold was off on an old TV.  Now, our TV is older (maybe 7 years?) and doesn't have component video or S-Video, so we were using the older Yellow Red White Composite video input.  Perhaps Philips didn't bother to test this well since most TVs now have S-Video? we don't know.<br /><br />I was pleased to find Philips had a support number and they were even open until 11pm, but when we called they had no idea what hte problem was, and offered us an exchange.  Great we thought!  Oh, but WE'D have to pay for the item to be shipped to them.  EXCUSE ME?  They sold us a defective unit and we have to pay to get a new one.  I don't think so.  We are returning hte unit through amazon (who rightly pays to have defective items shipped back to them) and we went to costco and bought a toshiba SD-K760 for the same price which works perfectly.