Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Disposable DVD Player
After 8 months of use, this player is going in the garbage. Half of the DVD's I try to play freeze up, or I get disc error. It's a real hit or miss proposition everytime you try a new DVD. Even when the thing worked it was an annoying unit. The buttons on the remote are laid out in the most unintuitive manner, and when you try to use fast forward the speeds are 2X 4X 6X 8X, that's it. No 16X or 32X! I should have learned my lesson with the last Philips product I bought. A VHS player that ate my tapes after 3 months of use. At least this DVD player was only $60. I must give Philips credit though, they really seem to know how to engineer a product to fail after the warranty period. They must have done alot of R&D to get that right.