Philips DVP5982 1080p Upscaling DVD Player
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Customer Review: Very good up-1080p DVD Player - Very Affordable
Summary: 5 Stars
This is very good DVD player. It can up-convert the video signal to 720p, 1080i, or 1080p. The picture is extremely clear and vivid on my Sony Bravia KDL 40V2500 at 1080p.
Other great features are the regional codefree, USB, and DIVX (playing avi movies). Setup is pretty much close to nothing. Just plug and play. The player takes HDMI, component, and composite (no S-video). When using HDMI cable, the default setting is to output just the video to your HDTV. The audio is to output to your receiver. (This can be adjusted to output to your HDTV in the menu).
Best of all is the price. It is very affordable relatively to other up-converted DVD players in the market, plus it has the top features you're looking for; namely 1080p up-conversion, and regional codefree!
It would be very nice if this player has the optical output for audio. But for its price, I have no complaint.
Customer Review: I love it!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi, I don't usally take the time to write about stuff I buy, buttt, I had to. This unit is great for all of you down loaders that get your movies on divx (know what I mean!). This unit is great I hooked up a 750 gig hard drive to the usb port and I have about 90 movies on it. It has the capacity to store approx 600-1000 movies, (if your movies are divx and aprox 750mgs to 1.2gigs depending on the encoder). Anyway, with this set up I have a jukebox of movies that I can wathch at anytime and never have to load or unload a dvd. The movies are very fluid and don't jerk or pause. The only time you will get that jerk and pause action is if the drive needs to be defragmented. Oh yea you have to format the drive fat 32. The unit plays every format that I have thrown at it except one xvid formant (don't ask me why) but I recomend it whole heartedly, for any video enthusiast. Anyway, thanks for listing!Customer Review: Amazing DivX player
Summary: 5 Stars
I took a risk, when I decided to go for this player, but was not sure if it can read all the Xvid and DivX files with AC3 plugin, I was prepared to return it within a month if it did not come, but was amazed to see how it worked. I was able to play all my DivX movies and normal DVD's upscaled.
For sanity purpose I ran a check for the same DivX movie via S-VGA (Laptop) and HDMI (DVD Player) up scaled, and the results were quite different. The colours were brighter and the movie scaled better to fit 16:9. A must recommendation for any with lot of DivX movies.
Now only if I can find a hack to stream over the USB port (is it an overkill!) It would be amazing!
Update: I got a 1TB HDD connected to the player, with all my photo and video collection and can view them anytime I want, without having to keep changing dvds or small 2G flash drives. :)
Customer Review: Philips DVP5982
Summary: 5 Stars
I could not find anything that told what this DVD Player would do in a clear manner so now I'll try. I time shift almost all of my TV watching using my computer & DVD-RW disks. My old Phillips DVD player was starting to wear out so I started to look for something else. USB seemed to be an option & I almost ordered a "Sansa-Take" when I found this DVD player. This one plays raw Mpeg 1, Mpeg 2, DivX and Mp3 files on both disk and USB as well as the standard DVD cd player functions. It will not play my "ScanDisk Cruser" 2 GB thumb drive(There is a lot of imbedded software in the drive), however it plays my other simple USB thumb drives perfectly. As far as upscaling is concerned I am not using that at this time. In short the Phillips DVP5982 does everything that I need it to do & it costs about half what a "Sansa-Take" does. Amazon shipping was swift & free, Rock On!!!Customer Review: excellent picture and superior sound
Summary: 5 Stars
I have 3 of these dvd players. The first one that I bought I hooked up to my new Sony TV. Excellent picture. Then the CD player that I have in my stereo system went on the fritz. Now I am a classical music listener and am very serious about sound quality. A really good replacement for my old cd player would cost me about $300, and I really didn't want to spend that if I didn't have to. I hooked up the DVP5982 and was pleasantly surprised to find that it had real audiophile sound quality. So I bought one for my stereo. Then I decided to get one for the bedroom TV. There are 2 very minor negatives to this player: 1) the drawer takes about 5 seconds to open and, 2) the drawer is very shallow and you have to be sure the disc is properly centered before closing the drawer. As I said these are minor shortcomings and I would definitely give the DVP5982 five stars.