Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
One More Fan
I was initially nervous about this player due to some older negative reviews. I wanted one that could handle all my DivX & .avis, etc., and this one seemed to be the answer. Finally, when my current player finally gave it up, I figured it would be worth the risk. <br /> <br />I tell you I love this thing. So far I've only run into a couple of CDs that won't play (ugly CODEC Not Supported message). In each of those cases, I used AVS Video Converter and recoded it to a supported format. I had a little loss of quality, but the original wasn't perfect either. <br /> <br />The feature I REALLY appreciate is that when you include subtitle .srts or whatever on the disk, the player reads them and plays them with the film. I have quite a few foreign films with separate subtitle files and this makes viewing them on my TV possible. It also reads DVDs with multiple movies recorded as data files (avis, etc.)and the menu lets you chose which one to play. <br /> <br />I read a few reviews that criticized the interface/menu and all I can say is.. Big Deal! Its pretty simplistic, but very straightforward. No fancy colors, but it works just fine. <br /> <br />Ahh.. I did have one incident that worried me. A CD got out of the carrier and went inside the box. I suspect my son was the culprit, but it was easily remedied by opening it up and retreiving the little devil. <br /> <br />Picture quality is great too. I probably should buy another one, just in case this one fails someday. At this price and with the ability to play all my movies & TV shows on CDs, its an unbeatable combo.