Philips DVP642

price, usability, design, size

reliability

71% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Inexpensive; excellent overall file compatibility; slim and stylish; plays home-brewed MP3 DVDs; upgradable firmware.

Rudimentary controls; subpar progressive-scan processing; occasional audio dropout; still incompatible with some DivX files; can't play DTS soundtracks.

The Philips DVP642 is good choice for DivX aficionados, but everyday DVD watchers can do better for the price.

Plays DivX, 4 x video upsampling, Plays DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/-RW, VCD, SVCD, Progressive Scan, Plenty of audio connections including digital, Affordable

Some Xvid don't work, Incompatible with GMC and QP

All in all this is one cool little player that can pretty much play anything you can throw at it. Not to mention it's incredibly affordable. This is truly a Divx fan's dream machine

Had this since it came out.

I bought it for divx playback and it pretty much does as promised. I have minimal problems with media incompatibility. although I understand it does not handle dvd rw

The only problem have had is that on some divx playback when you ff or fr the audio comes out of sync. There is no way to get it back in except to start the movie over. Playing the divx from the beginning without ff or fr is no problem. This only...

I purchase two of these purely to watch videos encoded with Xvid. The player serves its purpose just fine for me; however

Videos over a certain bitrate apparently need to buffer on my player. My second player has gone awry in less than a month with frequent restarts...very annoying

Plays everything perfectly - including dual layer discs. Well worth $50

The only goofy thing is that the power LED is on bright red when the unit is off. When the player is turned on, the LED turns off. Not a problem, just annoyingly mystifying