Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player

Average customer rating:

Broke after 6 months

If You're Not a Brand [...], This Is for You

Died after 3 months

not reliable

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Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Plays DVD-Video, video CD, audio CD, JPEG image CD, and CDs loaded with MP3, MPEG-4, or DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x files

Progressive-scan output for seamless, flicker-free images on HD-ready TVs; SmartPicture and 4x video upsampling enhance all outputs

Optical and coaxial digital-audio terminals pass Dolby Digital and DTS surround signals

PAL-to-NTSC format conversion--great for viewing non-region-encoded European discs

Measures 17.1 x 1.7 x 9.3 inches (W x H x D)

ASIN: B000204SWE

Product Description

Philips DVP642 DVD Player - Dreaming of a player that plays practically any disc format while enjoying flawless, true-to-life picture quality? Now you can! With Philips DVD players, indulge in great movie and music entertainment experience delivered right to your home. Smart Picture for personalized image settings Component Video Input Dolby Digital outputs

Amazon.com Product Description

Tap into multimedia fun with Philips' broad-format, high-style, and ultra-slim DVP642 DVD player. The DVP642 is not only a high-end progressive-scan DVD player equipped to offer scintillating images on high-definition and HD-ready TVs, it's a tech-savvy player that spins your MP3- and JPEG-encoded recordable CDs (as well as Kodak's and Fuji's variants of the same) and CDs loaded with MPEG-4 and DivX video (3.11, 4.x, and 5.x files), perfect for viewing Internet-sourced content in your home theater. Want more? The player also converts Region 1/All Region PAL-formatted discs (the video standard in Europe) for viewing on standard NTSC televisions (and vice-versa, if only for video CDs).

The DVP642's progressive-scan functionality allows compatible TVs to display the even and odd numbered lines of an image in a single pass. This minimizes screen flicker, which is easier on your eyes.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVP642 stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

Playback options include five-disc resume, which lets you pick up where you left off on your five most recently viewed DVDs (not applicable for MP3 or JPEG CDs), disc-lock parental controls, and picture zoom for magnification of select images.

The player will play JPEG images one by one automatically, letting you zoom in, rotate, or flip the picture vertically or horizontally. For MP3 playback, the player offers track time display, album and track selection, and repeat (disc/album/track). The DivX media format is MPEG-4 based video compression that lets you save large files like films, movie trailers, and music videos on recordable media.

Philips' 4x video upsampling offers smoother images even when viewing interlaced (nonprogressive) signals through the player's component-video, S-video, or standard composite-video outputs. SmartPicture provides optimum picture settings for color, brightness, saturation, contrast, sharpness, etc., to enhance your overall viewing experience at all times.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Dolby Digital 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver.

What's in the Box
DVD-Video player, remote control with batteries, a user's manual, and an analog audio/composite-video interconnect.

Customer Reviews:

Broke after 6 months.......2007-09-15

Worked fine for 6 months, but then completely stopped working. Warranty for labor is only 3 months, so Philips said their would be an eighteen dollar charge for replacement.

If You're Not a Brand [...], This Is for You.......2007-09-10

The Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player is the perfectly priced DVD-player for those concerned with reliability and price rather than brand. It's a straight-forward player with remote that provides menu access to change aspect from standard to 4.3 to 1.85:1. The remote isn't quite as intuitive as others, and you may need to get used to the fact that the L-R buttons in the center are for FR and FF -- it took some for me so I could comfortably navigate discs without having to look down at the remote to be sure I was scanning a chapter rather than flipping to the next one. Audio and subtitles are controllable from the remote, but it lacks an open/close button -- handy if you want to make it easy for your wife to get up and change the disc for you. One of the best features, of course, is its ability to play any region of disc by simply punching in a code. And at $40, it's perfectly priced to buy a couple of back-up players just in case.

Died after 3 months.......2007-09-09

My husband and I bought this DVD player only 3 months ago. After about a month, every time we put on a Disney video, the DVD would get stuck at the FBI Warning screen. We had to literally unplug the player and plug it back in to get the player to work again. In order to play the Disney movies for my son, we had to go to the scene selection screen, choose the 2nd scene, then hit the rewind to previous screen to start the movie. After 2 months of this pain, the DVD player finally stopped working all together. It can no longer read any DVD disc. I give this DVD player 2 stars, as we did get 3 months use out of it.

not reliable.......2007-09-03

I bought this product in january and in just one month the player started to fail reading DVDs. At the beginning it just happened from time to time, but as the time passed problems appeared more often, until becoming a real lottery and a matter of pure luck whether it played the DVDs or not. Now the player does not read any disk whatsoever. Maybe it is a good player, but it lacks reliability.

Philips DVD Player Rating.......2007-09-03

I am sorry I took so long to respond, but this purchase was a gift for someone else and I have just received feedback that the recipient is very pleased with the player.

Remanufactured Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player

Average customer rating:

1 in the garbage, 1 returned
Remanufactured DVP642
Good unit for the price ... mileage may vary!
Remanufactured Phillips 642
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Remanufactured Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Measures 17.1 x 1.7 x 9.3 inches (W x H x D); Plays DVD-Video, video CD, audio CD, JPEG image CD, and CDs loaded with MP3, MPEG-4, or DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x files
Progressive-scan output for seamless, flicker-free images on HD-ready TVs; SmartPicture and 4x video upsampling enhance all outputs
PAL-to-NTSC format conversion--great for viewing non-region-encoded European discs
Optical and coaxial digital-audio terminals pass Dolby Digital and DTS surround signals
Remanufactured to like-new condition; includes 90 day warranty

ASIN: B0009WSB2S

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Remanufactured Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player

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What's in the Box
DVD-Video player, remote control with batteries, a user's manual, and an analog audio/composite-video interconnect.

Customer Reviews:

1 in the garbage, 1 returned.......2007-09-19

2 of them broken, one bought brand new locally, the other refurbished from here. I returned the broken refurb for a refund, but I paid 2x shipping cost for $40 player and got nothing. The one bought locally wasn't opened till months later and the receipt was lost, so that was a complete loss. Don't be fooled by the features, don't waste your money.

Remanufactured DVP642.......2006-06-12

Great valued unit - but buy it new. Bought a remanufactured unit as a second DVD/DivX player - died on me just after the 90 day warranty ended (No Disc error for DVDs, plays CDs fine). Meanwhile, my original non-remanufactured unit is still working fine after a year and a half.

Good unit for the price ... mileage may vary!.......2006-06-02

I've enjoyed this unit and just bought my 2nd after the first one died ... lasted about 1 1/2 yrs. Other reviews indicate that these units seem to die after some time and I've read it's related to a power capacitor (probably an easy fix for someone skilled in electronics). Other problems are that some DVD-Rs won't load in this ... seems really arbitrary though, not any specific brand. I like it to play .avi files from the computer. If I were just playing store bought DVDs, I think I would choose something a little more reliable. I bought my second one from a retailer that offers a 4 year extended warranty for $20. I figure the extra money is worth it as 4 out of the 5 DVD players I've owned have died within 3 years. So my advice ... make sure you have a good warranty and expect to replace it, enjoy it while it works.

Remanufactured Phillips 642.......2006-05-05

Worked well for 30 days and then started having problems turning on. Really a pain. Won't turn on normally and have to spend 10 min. or so pushing the stand-by button to get it go on. Don't be a remanufactured one.

Plays about it all - .......2006-03-09

I've been using this unit for playing CBT's and although it doesn't like Real Media and Quicktime files there are bunches of converters that will quickly convert these to MPEG and they run great. Much better than being limited to VCD like many players play, because you can burn hours of MPEG video onto a standard RCD as opposed to an hour or so as a VCD or DVD. Google SUPER (Simplified Universal layer Encode & Renderer by eRightSoft) and your good to go.

Philips Dvp642 Region Code Free Divx-certified Progressive-scan Dvd Player

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Philips Dvp642 Region Code Free Divx-certified Progressive-scan Dvd Player

Manufacturer: unknown
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Product Features:

play all region code dvd
Multi-format playback
A/V versatility
Progressive-scan DVD player

ASIN: B000OESPJ0

Product Description

play all region dvd Progressive-scan DVD player: Enjoy smooth, crisp progressive-scan (480p) images from any digital TV. Multi-format playback: Supports DVD, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, MPEG-4, CD-R/RW, MP3-CD, JPEG and DivX® 3.11/4.x/5.x A/V versatility: Component, composite and S-video outputs make it simple to get the most out of your home theater system. Easy DVD hook-up guide: For the best possible picture, simply follow these guidelines and use the best cables your TV accepts: Good: Composite video Better: S-video Best: Component video Smart Picture: Choose pre-set picture settings for the perfect picture. Select from Multimedia, Rich, Natural, Soft and Personal

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1 star for appearance only.......2007-06-20

This is a very attractive phone to which I put a lot of effort into finding this style. It's location in my home is one where it is not used very often. In 3 months is was used less than half a dozen times. I was shocked and extremely disappointed to try to answer a call recently and hear nothing on the other end. The other caller was able to hear me. There is no dial tone. Even trying different lines and phone jacks did not help. There is no damage to the phone. I have been trying to contact Northstar but have been unable to get through on the number listed on Amazon or receive a reply via their e-mail contact. Even if I decide to try to have the phone replaced/repaired by the original manufacture, I will be out another $20 for shipping costs they require. This has been a complete waste of money and a total disappointment!

classic phone.......2006-11-07

I have been very disappointed in this phone. I seem to have lost calls. I have been having difficulty with getting dial tones and having conversations suddenly stopped by phone cutting out. The phone looks good but it doesn't operate well and for the price you pay the phone should be good. Wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Feel like I just wasted away my money.

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