| PHILIPS DVP 5990 - All Region 1080p Hi-Def UPCconverting Region free Multi Format DVD Player (Guaranteed To Play Dvds From Any Country) With HDMI,Divx Ultra, USB Direct and MP3 | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2677
Category: CE
Publisher: Philips
Studio: Philips
Brand: Philips
Label: Philips
Color: black
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: DVP5990/37
Model: DVP5990/37
UPC: 883370276530
EAN: 0883370276530
ASIN: B001AWOM7Y
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Plays PAL/NTSC dvds from any region any country. | | • | This DVD player brings movies to life with stunning 1080p upconversion of your standard DVDs. | | • | Its built-in USB port make it easy to connect your digital devices to enjoy music, movies, photos and more on your HDTV. | | • | Plays DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, VCD/SVCD, MP3, WMA, DivX, DivX Ultra, JPEG, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats | | • | 108MHz/12-bit video digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion; 192kHz/24-bit audio digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion |
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Product Description
This DVD player brings movies to life with stunning 1080p upconversion of your standard DVDs. Its built-in USB port make it easy to connect your digital devices to enjoy music, movies, photos and more on your HDTV. 1080p video output gives you an HDTV-compliant picture with roughly twice the resolution of progressive-scan DVD players Plays DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, VCD/SVCD, MP3, WMA, DivX, DivX Ultra, JPEG, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats DivX and DivX Ultra playback integrates features such as subtitles, multiple audio languages, multiple tracks and menus into 1 convenient file format High-definition JPEG playback shows images in up to 2.0MP resolution on your flat TV, allowing you to view your digital pictures in their true resolution USB Direct plays photos and music from USB flash drives for slideshows Dolby Digital decoding for cinematic sound quality HDMI output provides an uncompressed all-digital audio/video link for the highest-quality connection and supports copy-protected HD broadcast content 108MHz/12-bit video digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion; 192kHz/24-bit audio digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion Video upsampling technology decreases distortion for improved picture quality of standard DVDs Outputs: coaxial digital audio, composite video, stereo audio, component video and HDMI Parental controls and child lock prevent your child from being exposed to undesirable material Trilingual on-screen display allows you to choose from English, French and Spanish Includes remote with 2 AAA batteries
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| Customer Reviews:
 great player - bs reviews September 6, 2008
This is a fantastic player which most certainly does play PAL discs without a problem. There is also a superb modified firmware available at videohelp.com which gives longer filenames and some other interface improvements.
The person who claims they had trouble getting discs out of the thin tray and lost discs into the player is...shall we say...less than truthful. It is impossible to push discs into the guts of the player without tripping the door close sensor. Even so, the tray will retract and the disc will fall into the recessed portion of the tray. The cover is held on with screws. How tough would it be to remove the cover if you needed to do so? Not very. I suppose you could turn the unit upside down and shake it to dislodge the disc from the tray. The player is designed for use under regular gravity and in a somewhat stable physical location.
MP3 and WMA support is very good, supporting up to about 650 MP3s per directory. The USB port is in the front which is convenient but somewhat ugly, to be honest. For homemade data discs, I recommend using the freeware program FolderSort (Windows) as the files are sorted by the raw 8.3 format which does not always give the same order as the long filenames.
 DVDs tend to get stuck inside the player September 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had this machine for about two weeks, and it works fine...plays all regions with no problem, once you enter the remote code.
Unfortunately, it doesn't always eject the DVD when you're done watching. We've probably played 12 discs, and 3 of them have slipped out of the tray and disappeared into the bowels of the player. You can hear the disc rattling around loose if you tip the machine. We got all three discs out eventually, but not before they'd gotten pretty badly scratched. Rather than take the risk of messing up any more DVDs, I think I'll return it.
False Advertising August 28, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a multi-region DVD player, do not buy this, because it simply isn't one. I unfortunately waited a couple of months between receiving this and trying to play a DVD from Europe, but it most definitely doesn't work. None of my European DVDs work. They all stop during loading and display "Wrong Region" on the screen. Pretty frustrating when the title of this offering says "Guaranteed to play DVDs form any country." I don't know if this is incompetence or a complete lack of ethics on the part of the vendor, but it's likely one of the two.
DVP 5990 better than MDV460/17 July 23, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Philips DVP5990/37 DVD player is good for a mid-range, priced player. Compared to sister company, Magnavox's MDV460/17, the 5990 is far superior and demonstrates why you should spend a little more for quality. The 5990 reads multiple formats including Divx, MP3, and WMA which has become fairly standard for DVD players, but there are two features that set it apart from the competition: flash drive port and online firmware updating. The 460 has none of these features.
Also built into the 5990 is limited memory, so when you turn off the player and go back later to finish your movie, you can start where you left off. The 460 does not. The 5990 is also relatively fast from the time you press the "open disc" button, to the start of the movie (about 15 seconds). The 460 is slower than molasses and doesn't always recognized disc formats (30-40 second start up).
The 460 does a good job of presenting options in the setup menu, offering more optimization than the 5990, but the 5990's simple setup allows you to plug and play, right out of the box, and start enjoying your movie. Both have component video, but only the 5990 has HDMI - the new standard - which offers faster, neater setup.
For those of us that hate having to get up off of the couch to eject the disc, the 5990 offers a handy "lazy person's eject button" on the remote. The 460 makes you work.
The flash drive port options are a little akward on the 5990, but offer a range of options for a variety of multimedia. And the online updating requires you to register, then has trouble finding the unit you are trying to update.
All in all the 5990 is far superior, but you are paying 3 to 4 times the price of the 460. Best Buy and Walmart have recently offered the 5990 for about $60, while other vendors are asking for $80 or more. However, for the price, few offer better than the Philips 5990/37. This is a good buy: the moral being, you get what you pay for. (writen 7/23/08)
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