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A COLLECTION OF GOOD AND BAD POINTS
I love my Philips 642 (which I use with the bedroom TV) and since my Zenith player in the living room was giving me trouble I thought I'd try this model. Sadly, it's gonna go back -
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Great picture quality. I haven't tried the upscale feature. My HD set only has DVI and I don't feel like buying an adapter, especially since (supposedly) the HDMI output on the player cuts off the coax digital audio output if you use it. Groovy if you've got a HDMI amp you can sn...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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08/15/2006
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Love it and hate it
Rarely has there been a product I so loved and hated at the same time. This device has one MAJOR pro and several MAJOR cons.
Pro: USB port! You can stick a flash memory device or even a hard drive into it and access all the files on that device -- including playing DivX movies off it. This is a HUGE positive and the reason for my purchase. But...
Cons: 1. Long filenames are NOT supported for that flash/hard drive. 2. No S-Video out for those of us who don't yet have a hi-...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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05/23/2007
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(10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful
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A big step forward from DVP642
Philips DVD players are my most favorite for two reasons, 1. they are cheap and 2. they can play DIVX and can be made region free gracefully. I am user of DVP642 for last one year and even though I enjoyed the flexibility of playing all sort of DVD/DivX files thru it, I never liked the picture quality/menu browsing much. Now, with this new model, menu browsing is much faster, discs loads way faster and not too mention picture quality also improved greatly.
To add to my pleasure, there is a ...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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10/20/2006
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(10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Fantastic Value w/ USB and Broad Media Compatibility
I bought this after being incredibly satisfied with its pseudo-predecessor, the Philips DVP642 DVD Player. The reasons I loved that player was that it played just about anything I threw at it. I could take DVD's I bought and convert them to DIVX or XVID and play 6 movies, or twenty TV shows on a single disc. It would also happily play all of my mp3's and jpgs I burned to data DVD's and CD's. I don't use the picture functionality much, but it makes for a great slideshow/screensaver.
An...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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08/11/2007
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(45 of 47) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Great for playing all formats.
I bought this DVD player in mid May and 3 weeks later with very nominal usage my player just died in the middle of a movie. I had it connected to a top of the line surge protector so the problem was not a power surge. I could not even get the disc out. When I took it back to Circuit City they assured me it was probably just a bad one and gave me a new one. I could have got another brand but for the features and price I could not find one I liked in the store. The new player has worked ok for the...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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07/09/2006
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(102 of 108) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Great HDTV picture
The rumor that the new Philips DVP5960 has corrected the bugs that plagued the Philips DVP5900 upscaling DVD player appears to be true! Also, the DVP5960 produces a much better picture than the DVP5900. The DVP5960 is "DivX Ultra" certified. I've tried upscaling DVD players from Sony, Samsung, and Toshiba. Only the more expensive Sony could match the DVP5960 picture quality. However, Sony DVD players are notoriously finicky about which discs they will play, while Philips is known for its "plays ...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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07/10/2006
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(398 of 427) Users Found This Review Helpful
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USB makes this player a steal
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The primary reason I bought this DVD player was because of its ability to play off USB devices. The specs indicate it will read jpegs, MP3s, and WMAs off a USB flash drive. It will also read off a FAT32-formatted external hard drive as long as it is externally powered and it will also play divx/xvid from USB. I'm using a 250GB Seagate HDD inside a (warranty-voided) Maxtor enclosure. The divx/xvid playback works perfectly and no stuttering. The interface for the USB is pretty bad thoug...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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08/22/2006
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91%
(22 of 24) Users Found This Review Helpful
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This device is slow...
I purchased the Philips DVP5960 player based on reading the reviews and I had high expectations for this product. When I received it, the device was SLOW. It took a good 45 seconds for this player to load a DVD with divx files. Once I started playing the divx files, I noticed the player wasn't able to handle divx files with high bitrates. The player would drop frames to compensate to keep the audio in sync with the video; which wasn't always successful, the audio would sometimes lose sync wi...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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06/07/2007
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91%
(11 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Would have been 5 stars if the USB interface worked reliably...
I receieved a DVP-5960/32 as a Christmas gift. In order to avoid having to burn DVDs or CDs, I purchased a high speed 2GB USB storage solution which consists of a Kingston 120X Ultimate SD Card and a Crucial Hi-Speed USB SD/MMC Card Reader from Amazon (tested read peformance is 16MB/second). The USB device must be formatted as FAT32 for the DVD player to read it (NTFS not supported).
I was experimenting and used AutoGK 2.40 to encode/compress a George Michael Video from a DVD. I encod...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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01/06/2007
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90%
(10 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful
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In plain English
I was thoroughly impressed with this unit and about to buy it, until I saw it in person.
The other reviewer pointed out that this DVD player had an HDMI output and talks about HDCP. He also mentions that there are problems with digital sound.
Perhaps the upshot of this is that this unit doesn't have an optical audio output in favour of the HDMI's sound carrying capability.
Great if you don't mind using your TVs speakers, but a bit of a headache if you use a home...
[Philips Electronic DVD Player (DVP5960) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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06/23/2006
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87%
(28 of 32) Users Found This Review Helpful
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