Philips DVP5982 DVD Player (Refurbished)-Philips DVP5982 DVD Player
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==I previously owned a Philips DVD player before (DVP642) so I decided to buy this one as an upgrade because its Ultra DivX certified (DivX version 6) as opposed to DivX version 5 on my DVP642 plus the upscaling HDMI playback.
==One of the best things about this DVD player is that it will play just about anything you throw into it. The first thing I noticed right away was that my XviD files looked amazingly better (clearer, sharper, better resolution) during playback than on my DVP642 player and so far it's playing all the avi files I burned on DVD/CD. Second thing I absolutely loved was the 32X forward/backward speeds. The DVP642 only had 16X or lower speeds. Regular DVD playback is also excellent. The audio is perfect. This model color is black which fits well with my other electronic components which are also black.
==The menus are robust with features. My 2 favorite features are "Lip Sync" and the ability to do a firmware updating. If you have a DVD disc that plays audio out of sync
==One of the best things about this DVD player is that it will play just about anything you throw into it. The first thing I noticed right away was that my XviD files looked amazingly better (clearer, sharper, better resolution) during playback than on my DVP642 player and so far it's playing all the avi files I burned on DVD/CD. Second thing I absolutely loved was the 32X forward/backward speeds. The DVP642 only had 16X or lower speeds. Regular DVD playback is also excellent. The audio is perfect. This model color is black which fits well with my other electronic components which are also black.
==The menus are robust with features. My 2 favorite features are "Lip Sync" and the ability to do a firmware updating. If you have a DVD disc that plays audio out of sync
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If you own a multi-system television (or a PAL television), you should be aware that all current USA Philips DVD players (including the 5982 and any models made thereafter) have the "TV Type" selections disabled in the firmware. The ONLY choice of output system (for U.S. machines) is NTSC, which is fine for most people, but if you have a multi-system TV, this means your PAL discs are going to undergo an unnecessary standards conversion (to NTSC).
All other worldwide versions of Philips machines still have NTSC, PAL and MULTI as choices in the "TV Type" menu. Why was it removed for the USA? My guess was to end calls to customer service for people complaining about black-and-white pictures (MULTI used to be the default choice back when US machines included all three types).
The 5960 is the last US model of this type/price point (including a USB port) to come with changeable TV type options, FYI.
I HAVE DISCOVERED A WORK-AROUND, however. You can change the player to multi-system by the
All other worldwide versions of Philips machines still have NTSC, PAL and MULTI as choices in the "TV Type" menu. Why was it removed for the USA? My guess was to end calls to customer service for people complaining about black-and-white pictures (MULTI used to be the default choice back when US machines included all three types).
The 5960 is the last US model of this type/price point (including a USB port) to come with changeable TV type options, FYI.
I HAVE DISCOVERED A WORK-AROUND, however. You can change the player to multi-system by the
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It plays everything: regular DVDs, downloaded movies from USB memory stick, and now, that I set it region-free, even the European DVDs. We can watch everything on a big screen, from a comfortable couch. I am very happy to have such a convenient little gadget for such a reasonable price!
For the info, the region free hack I found on the internet. It is simple: open the tray, press SETUP, choose PREFERENCE, press 1 3 8 9 3 1, select region 0. That's all.
For the info, the region free hack I found on the internet. It is simple: open the tray, press SETUP, choose PREFERENCE, press 1 3 8 9 3 1, select region 0. That's all.
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My experience with Phillips has been horrible. I bough this player as a gift for my brother so it took me a while to give it to him and the 30 days return expired. The DVD player would not recognize discs so I called Phillips. They offered me a great solution, ship the defective unit to them (at my cost) and pay them $50.00 to send me a refurbished unit! Are you serious?
I don't know about you but that sounds like a horrible deal.
I called customer care etc to no help so I am boycotting Phillips. From now on I will NOT buy anything with their name on it. Funny thing is that my wife bought me a Norelco shaver which is made by them and it is actually pretty good. But still I am not buying anything from them anymore. Good luck though!
I don't know about you but that sounds like a horrible deal.
I called customer care etc to no help so I am boycotting Phillips. From now on I will NOT buy anything with their name on it. Funny thing is that my wife bought me a Norelco shaver which is made by them and it is actually pretty good. But still I am not buying anything from them anymore. Good luck though!
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Here's one electronics product that exceeded my expectations for it. In this device, Philips continues great line of cheap yet surprisingly full-featured DVD/DiVX players, originating from 3960 model, which still serves me well after 3 years of heavy use and hundreds upon hunderds of DVD, divx and mpeg movies and clips.
This sleek device main new features over my old 3960 are:
1) upconverting feature -- works beautifully with my HDTV. Colors are brighter, shapes sharper, dynamic range and tonality are way improved. Together with a cheap HDMI cable from ebay the whole setup cost me less than 70 bucks - less than a price you'd pay for a 'loaded' DVD player from the likes of Sony and Toshiba.
2)USB connector -- Haven't tried it out yet, but I hear it's USB 2.0 speed, which means blazing fast file transfers. Gotta get myself a 1TB external bigdisk when the prices go down a bit on those. For now my 2Gig flash mem stick should work.
3)lastly, sleek black exterior and nicely-shaped(though
This sleek device main new features over my old 3960 are:
1) upconverting feature -- works beautifully with my HDTV. Colors are brighter, shapes sharper, dynamic range and tonality are way improved. Together with a cheap HDMI cable from ebay the whole setup cost me less than 70 bucks - less than a price you'd pay for a 'loaded' DVD player from the likes of Sony and Toshiba.
2)USB connector -- Haven't tried it out yet, but I hear it's USB 2.0 speed, which means blazing fast file transfers. Gotta get myself a 1TB external bigdisk when the prices go down a bit on those. For now my 2Gig flash mem stick should work.
3)lastly, sleek black exterior and nicely-shaped(though
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Bought this for my mom after researching review sites. This came up as the best every time. Made the purchase and could not be happier. Gave it to my mom who has an High Def TV and she loves it. Good choice if you are not ready to upgrade to hd-hvd or blu ray.
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Very good image quality, better than my previous Samsung HD850 that stop working after a year. Lots features + USB connection. But the F-R speed is at 2X, I have this product for a few weeks now & still couldn't figure out how to get beyong the 2X speed. No ejection button on remote & No Optical audio out.
I also bought a Sony NS75H for the primary theater system for 100+ bucks a week ago, and this Philips player is matching the image quality, and in some cases, I think this Philips perfromance is better than the Sony player. If it wasn't for the Optical Audio connection to my Bose Life-style theater system, I would buy another Philips unit instead of more expensive Sony Player.
I set this Philips Player up with my Mini system by using a 22" 1080P Screpre LCD monitor & 2.1 Logitech computer speakers. Very happy with it.
I also bought a Sony NS75H for the primary theater system for 100+ bucks a week ago, and this Philips player is matching the image quality, and in some cases, I think this Philips perfromance is better than the Sony player. If it wasn't for the Optical Audio connection to my Bose Life-style theater system, I would buy another Philips unit instead of more expensive Sony Player.
I set this Philips Player up with my Mini system by using a 22" 1080P Screpre LCD monitor & 2.1 Logitech computer speakers. Very happy with it.
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I purchased a DVP5960 3 months ago, then purchased the DVP5982 1 month ago in hopes of the DVP5982's new USB2 would allow faster transfer rates from an external disk connected to it's USB2 port. The DVP5982's USB2 transfer rate is minutely faster than my DVP5960's USB1. I have not found any practical difference between the two units or their USB ports (besides the case color). The DVP5982 is almost identical performance to the DVP5960. The DVP5982 is advertised with USB2 and the older DVP5960 is advertised with USB1 but they work almost identical in performance. I am reposting a review that I had made for my DVP5960, with the slightest of alterations for the DVP5982, (mainly substituted model names and changed the TIVO Best recording bitrate lag time from .5 sec to .2 seconds.) This DVP5982 still cannot play my TIVO "Best" recording "Best=5.8 Mbps" without pausing every 3 seconds. I was hoping the DVP5982 would be better than the DVP5960 to meet my needs to play my .mpg-2 TIVO recordings
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This is the best DVD player I've found for the media geek who needs a versatile player. It will play DVDs or DIVX movies or display photos from burned DVDs or USB jump drives. Upgrading the firmware is as easy as downloading it from the Philips website, burning it onto a CD-ROM, and inserting it into the player. And if you enter the unlock code 1,3,8,9,3,1 in the Preferences menu you can make it permanently region-free.
This misses getting five stars for a few reasons. The remote doesn't have separate "fast foward" and "skip forward 1 chapter" buttons: you tap 'forward' to skip a chapter and hold 'forward' to start fast-forwarding which is akward. The filter they use to upscale seems to have a lot of "ringing" artifacts and might not be as good as your video device's native upscaling filter. When playing from a USB device the file browser doesn't show long file names. It plays divx/xvid/mpeg4 movies but not high-res movies: 960x528 files fail with an "video resolution not supported"
This misses getting five stars for a few reasons. The remote doesn't have separate "fast foward" and "skip forward 1 chapter" buttons: you tap 'forward' to skip a chapter and hold 'forward' to start fast-forwarding which is akward. The filter they use to upscale seems to have a lot of "ringing" artifacts and might not be as good as your video device's native upscaling filter. When playing from a USB device the file browser doesn't show long file names. It plays divx/xvid/mpeg4 movies but not high-res movies: 960x528 files fail with an "video resolution not supported"
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I have been a happy user of Philips DVD players for some time, having at owned several models. Yes, I have had minor cosmetic issues in the past with the overly small and lightweight remotes, and the not-so-great on screen menu layouts and design, but overall they have delivered a quality image. I recently bought two Sony Bravia HDTVs and decided to go with this upconverting Philips model until I see how the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray war plays out. I have been astonished by the fidelity and quality of the image of regular DVDs played through this unit! Although my Bravia's only support 1080i (and not 1080p) I am still amazed by the detail this unit seems to tweak out of SD DVDs. Also, the footprint of this unit is tiny and matches the base of my Bravias in color and size, so it's a perfect design fit. I have not an issue with the on-screen menus. They are far better than previous Philips models. Also, the remote is the new-style design (where it looks like an actual product designer and not an engineer
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To go along with my HDTV, I decided that I needed to upgrade my DVD player. While my Insignia DVD Recorder/VCR didn't look awful, it certainly didn't look good. And while the quality of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are definitely impressive, the on-going format war combined with the cost made those players inviable options.
Enter the market of upconverting DVD players. These players, which take your standard 480i DVDs and scale them to high-definition resolutions are as common as regular DVD players these days. Places like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, are full of them. I've actually owned two of them.
I started with the highly-touted Sony DVP-NS75H which is truly a great machine. It has a great design and a super picture quality. Sadly, it only upconverted to 720p or 1080i, not 1080p as my set is capable of. While I'd like to think that I'm not a total videophile, I noticed some of the ghosting and artifacts that interlaced video can expose when put on a big screen. Despite the claim of my
Enter the market of upconverting DVD players. These players, which take your standard 480i DVDs and scale them to high-definition resolutions are as common as regular DVD players these days. Places like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, are full of them. I've actually owned two of them.
I started with the highly-touted Sony DVP-NS75H which is truly a great machine. It has a great design and a super picture quality. Sadly, it only upconverted to 720p or 1080i, not 1080p as my set is capable of. While I'd like to think that I'm not a total videophile, I noticed some of the ghosting and artifacts that interlaced video can expose when put on a big screen. Despite the claim of my
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I was about to buy an Oppo 970HD when I heard about this new Philips player. Found it for $69, so I took a chance. I'm glad I did.
PROS: cheap, upconverts to 1080p, HDMI output, very good picture quality (Mediatek chipset), black finish, slim design, plays everything (including NTSC/PAL), USB 2.0 port (media must be formatted as FAT32/16), plays divx files, supports Dolby-Digital and DTS passthru (even though it isn't mentioned in the manual), adjustable audio sync, easily hackable to be region free, screen saver, firmware upgrades.
CONS: doesn't support long file names, doesn't support HD divx files, no optical audio out (only coax/rca), remote is kind of cheap, menus are a little cludgy, doesn't seem to have an "upconversion-over-component" hack available yet (unlike the DVP5960).
To sum up, if you don't need optical out and can get around the annoyance of short file names, this player is terrific! Who knows, maybe Philips will release a firmware to fix these minor issues (fingers
PROS: cheap, upconverts to 1080p, HDMI output, very good picture quality (Mediatek chipset), black finish, slim design, plays everything (including NTSC/PAL), USB 2.0 port (media must be formatted as FAT32/16), plays divx files, supports Dolby-Digital and DTS passthru (even though it isn't mentioned in the manual), adjustable audio sync, easily hackable to be region free, screen saver, firmware upgrades.
CONS: doesn't support long file names, doesn't support HD divx files, no optical audio out (only coax/rca), remote is kind of cheap, menus are a little cludgy, doesn't seem to have an "upconversion-over-component" hack available yet (unlike the DVP5960).
To sum up, if you don't need optical out and can get around the annoyance of short file names, this player is terrific! Who knows, maybe Philips will release a firmware to fix these minor issues (fingers
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