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DVP 5990 better than MDV460/17
Philips DVP5990/37 DVD player is good for a mid-range, priced player. Compared to sister company, Magnavox's MDV460/17, the 5990 is far superior and demonstrates why you should spend a little more for quality. The 5990 reads multiple formats including Divx, MP3, and WMA which has become fairly standard for DVD players, but there are two features that set it apart from the competition: flash drive port and online firmware updating. The 460 has none of these features.
Also built into th...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review by Robert Olson "Student and Lear can be read at Amazon.com]
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Robert Olson "Student and Lear
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07/23/2008
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Southern California
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100%
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Killer DVD Player
This DVD player is a great bargain at $55. It works perfectly fine. Here's what you really want to know:
1) Make this DVD player region-free. Press Setup on the remote and go to Preferences. Press 1, 3, 8, 9, 3, 1 on the remote. Use the up and down buttons to select Region 0 (region-free).
2) Go to the General Setup page. Press 1, 3, 7, 9. This will display the firmware information. If the last two digits of Version aren't "31," then go to the Philips website and update to ...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review can be read at Amazon.com]
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05/30/2009
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97%
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Works OK, but HDMI problems...
We were looking for a region free DVD player and stumbled upon this one. For the first three months everything was great. Then the HDMI picture went to pot. After some googling, we discovered that this is a common problem with this player. One of the color channels on the HDMI connection commonly goes bad.
Component (RCA) video works great, playing videos/pictures from the USB works great. The only down side is the high rate of HDMI failure which will occur just after the warranty lap...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review can be read at Amazon.com]
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12/06/2008
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Makes a great media center with large USB HD..
I bought this at Best Buy today. I was there picking up a 500GB WD USB HD for $90 on sale and thought i'd see what they had in the way of DivX players. I had read good things about this one and the 5992 (both have the improved USB 2.0). The 5990 was $59 at Best Buy. so for around $150 i have a great 500GB Divx/.wmv/.mp3/etc. 1080i media center for my digital TV. A great alternative to an Apple TV, which i had been contemplating for sometime.
Down to the nitty gritty. If you're using ...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review can be read at Amazon.com]
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06/29/2008
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86%
(40 of 46) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Good 1080P player with some firmware issues.
Pro: USB 2.0, Decent picture quality, easy all region hack, Low price.
Con: Some firmware issue, no optical out as for most of Phillips.
I have purchased 6 DVP5892/37 from Philips, kept 2 for myself & gave 4 away to friends & family. I love that unit for its performence/price. When my brother wants one more all region hacked 1080P player, I picked up a DVP5990 for $50.99 on sale at BBY online.
Setup was easy but this player got some firmware issues. It can't recog...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review can be read at Amazon.com]
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07/24/2008
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83%
(25 of 30) Users Found This Review Helpful
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good product
I went to bestbuy, $59, cool, but out of stock. So stopped by Wal-mart, $57, oh even better. Bought it there. (usually amazon's got very good price, but this time, Wal-mart's got the best price :-) )
Went home, plug and play, it is a good dvd player.
There are so many good reviews in great details about this product (or other Philips DVP59xx, they're quite similar) in the Amazon site, I'm not going to repeat them. Just simply put, it's a good product. Build quality and material used a...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review can be read at Amazon.com]
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06/24/2008
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76%
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USB 2.0
this player is alot better than the 5982,and the 5960.I tested my WD passport 250gb on the 5990 with 0 issues ,and no need for an AC adapter to power any external hardrive based on the 2.5" drive.just be sure to format your HD to FAT32.
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I got mine from wal-mart by the way.sorry amazon walmart is cheaper
update9-21-08. for owners interested in New firmware for 5990/37
*new skins
*new OSD font (text and graphic)
*new filebrowser (with sc...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review can be read at Amazon.com]
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06/05/2008
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72%
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Disappointed
I guess I didn't understand what I was buying. I wanted a Divx HD player. Both of those words are on the box, but they don't go together. Max res is standard DVD. It will not play anything higher. It's a hardware limitation so don't think that a firmware update will fix it. The only benefits to this player above older Philips is that it has HDMI out. So your standard DVDs will look slightly better. It's not really worth it though, standard def is standard def. HDMI won't make it look that much b...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review can be read at Amazon.com]
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12/22/2008
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18%
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False Advertising
If you are looking for a multi-region DVD player, do not buy this, because it simply isn't one. I unfortunately waited a couple of months between receiving this and trying to play a DVD from Europe, but it most definitely doesn't work. None of my European DVDs work. They all stop during loading and display "Wrong Region" on the screen. Pretty frustrating when the title of this offering says "Guaranteed to play DVDs form any country." I don't know if this is incompetence or a complete lack o...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review by K. Murdoch can be read at Amazon.com]
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K. Murdoch
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08/28/2008
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Switzerland
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15%
(2 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Best Divx player out there
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: I absolutely love this DVD player. The USB port coupled with a FAT32 formatted external HD, makes for a great lower cost video juke box of sorts. Divx playback has been improved vs. last years model, lip sync correction for Divx playback is new on this model, 1080p w/ HDMI output looks stunning, overall improvement of cosmetic design and a MUCH better remote from last years model as well. 14 digi...
[Philips Electronic DVP5990 DVD Player with HD Upconversion review by darksidesteve can be read at Newegg.com]
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darksidesteve
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10/24/2008
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100%
(8 of 8) Users Found This Review Helpful
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