Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
This DVD Player is AMAZING!
I just got this DVD player for Christmas and it's really great. I'm not a videophile by any means... I just wanted something that could play my DVDs, CDs and MP3s for me. I shopped around for DVD players and ended up asking for this one for Christmas, because it also plays MPG and DivX AVI files. I've got a LOT of MPG and DivX videos, so I thought that would be a nice perk. Well, it does everything I wanted it to... and the \\"perk\\" has turned out to be even more fun than I expected it to be. I've been burning videos from my PC onto discs and watching them in this player for days now, just because it's so nice watching my TV shows, music videos, etc on the TV instead of my PC monitor. Even better yet, it plays the PAL DVD my friend sent me a long time ago that's been collecting dust on my shelf, because I didn't have a player that could convert PAL to NTSC. This one does it with ease. <br /> <br />I've heard some people talk about the player being slower or noisier than other players. Like I said, I'm no videophile or anything... so I may not be as particular as some other people, but I haven't noticed any kind of problems like that at all. The player takes a moment to load the menu for a VCD, but no more than my PC's CD-Rom drive does. It's also no noisier than any other DVD player I've had. <br /> <br />People have also complained about the remote, but I have no problem with it. Some buttons may be configured a little differently here, but it's easy to adapt to and I actually like the small size of the remote. It fits in my smaller hands much better than some other remotes. Also, I don't miss the eject button at all. I don't have much need for it (I think the average person probably doesn't need to eject their DVDs from across the room, since you'd have to get up to pull the DVD out, anyhow) and even if I DO want to eject something, I don't see where the problem is in holding the \\"Stop\\" button for a few seconds. <br /> <br />Bottom Line: This is an awesome DVD player and I definitely recommend it - especially if you want to play VCDs.