Philips DVP5982/37 DVD Player

Economical Media Player !!!

Posted Oct 9, 2007 - This one has a USB port on the front which is a great advantage. Although its not mentioned that it can play Divx format from USB, but it does pretty well. The display is excellent. The remote has a USB Button, which toggles between the USB device and the DVD. It has big display considered others in the same range. Another advantage is that it supports NTSC as well as PAL system. Also some sites have region-free hack. So you could gift this to your friends / family overseas. Does not have universal power supply (only works on 110V)so a power coverter is needed if using outside US.

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Philip DVP5982/27 DVD player

Posted Feb 9, 2008 - Great player. Easily make it region free. Play avi (MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX3~ 6) files from external hard driver directly, you need to format the hard drive into Fat 32. The picture is so clear when using HDMI cable upconverting an ordinary DVD to 720P or 1080i. Haven’t tried 1080P because my LCD TV doesn’t support 1080P. But the HDMI cable is not included, you need buy one. It doesn’t have S-video, some people may still need it. The remote works ok, but not as good as the machine.

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DVD player Philips DVP5982

Posted Nov 26, 2007 - I guess it is classic model for usual customer. I had previous model and I was satisfied with it, but I bought a new TV and I need a new HD player. I use this unit and for DivX and for other sources and I have no problems with sound or image.

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DVP5982/37 DVD Player (HDMI)

Posted Nov 1, 2007 - Very slim form factor, nice design. Plays any media, USB connector accepted hard drive formated in FAT32 with external power without any problem, Easy to make region free. remote control design is terrible, looking to substitute it with any other.... recommended buy. DIVX dream play...

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Great PQ, feature-packed and CHEAP!!

Posted May 14, 2007 - I was about to buy an Oppo 970HD when I heard about this new Philips player. Found it at BB 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, plays everything (including NTSC/PAL), USB 2.0 port (media must be formatted as FAT32), 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 over USB, doesn't support HD divx files, no optical audio out (only coax/rca), remote is kind of cheap, menus are a little unintuitive, doesn't seem to have an "upconversion-over-component" hack available yet (like the DVP5960). To sum up, if you don't need optical out and can get around the annoyance of short file names over USB, this player is terrific! Who knows, maybe Philips will release a firmware to fix these minor issues (fingers crossed). BTW, if you add a FAT32 formatted HD, it becomes a pretty decent poor man's home theater PC. A BIG thumbs up!!

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If Swiss Army made a DVD player, this would be it

Posted Jul 1, 2007 - This is easily the best budget DVD player available, period. It's available at some retailers as low as $60. It plays all my divx files, divx ultra, MP3, and more from just about any type of disc (CD-R, DVD+R, etc.). Additionally, there is a USB port on the front (despite hype, it only transfers at USB 1.1 rates, not 2.0) that will read flash drives and some hard drives. It's a great option to view digital photos, listen to music or watch divx movies without having to burn a disc. Thankfully, Philips ditched the silver color scheme and went for black. This is also one of the few budget plays that has an HDMI port, and will upscale as high as 1080p. You can customize the minimal LCD display, and the firmware is upgradable. Using an easy to find trick, you can also make t his DVD player region free. PAL to NTSC conversion is excellent as well. There are some drawbacks though. There is no S-Video output, so you either have to go with composite, component, or HDMI. There is a coaxial digital out for audio, but no optical which is a little annoying. The bundled remote has buttons that stick a bit when pushed, and doesn't have enough buttons for all this DVD player can do. Start up time is about fifteen seconds which seems a bit long. Also, it only remembers your last play point for the last five movies you've watched. Divx subtitles also have a slightly transparent background around them, for ease of reading I suppose, but I find it annoying. The DVD tray might also be a bit flimsy for some people, but I like it since it keeps the unit ultra slim. This is easily the best sub-$100 DVD player available. It will play some movies that won't play properly on other DVDs, and it will play any homemade things you throw at it. If you only buy one DVD player before you go HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, this is the way to go.

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DVP5982/37 DVD Player (HDMI)

Posted Jul 12, 2007 - I have a Sharp Aquos 1080p LCD TV. Before I bought this DVD player I have a 480p DVD/VCR combo. The image quality is poor when I play DVD on it. But I don't want spend couple hundred dollars on blu-ray dvd player. DVP5982 got a pretty good price along with a USB input. I have been searching this kind of dvd player in the market for quite some time and this is just I have been waiting for. The upconverted picture quality is excellent. I strongly recommend this for people what to have good picture quality but also the price.

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Best And Cheap DVD Player - A worth buy

Posted Jun 7, 2007 - I HAD THIS FOR OVER A WEEK NOW AND ITS THE BEST YEAH; THE BATTRIES THAT GO IN REMOTE ARE REALLY CHEAPASI WAS TRYING TO OPEN IT ONE OF THE BATTRIES BENT.. I DID NOT DAMAGE BUT POOR MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION.... IT LOADS ALL DVD I HAD DIV X AVI AND ALL THE MEDIA FROM DVD+R TO DVD-RAM ALL OF IT. USB IS GREAT.PUT YOUR AVI FILES ON FLASH DRIVE AND RENAME IT TO 6 LETTER NAME AND PLAY IT ON DVD PLAYER.QUICK LOADING. WELL I RECOMMEND, ITS CHEAP AND GOOD BUY I STILL HAVE TO EXPLORE MORE OPTIONS AS THERE IS SO MUCH FOR THTA PRICE.

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Good economical DVD player

Posted Jul 23, 2007 - I bought this DVD player to upconvert to 720P signal which my new digital TV can take. The picture quality is OK, I can not make out huge difference between 480p and 720p on my TV but 720P signal is little better then using component video which gives me 480p. There is no eject button on the remote. Both power and eject operations takes little while, in particular eject takes @ 30 seconds to eject. This is annoying. The sound settings are many but I could not find any of them useful. Overall the player is just good only. I have not played other format to try but for just DVDs to upconvert it is OK. I paid only $60 and it came with HDMI cable and so for the price I paid the player is good.

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Ok, it don't play everything, but plays most!!!

Posted Jul 29, 2007 - This player play almost everything and you can search the web to teach you how to on most stuff, region free, Hard drive tricks, etc. So far I know you can't play MP4 and real Media. If you want to play all you downloads, just convert them to DIVX. Buy this affordable player to fulfill most needs.

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Great value for the money

Posted Nov 28, 2007 - This player is an excellent value for the money. The reviews about the slow load times almost made me not buy this player, but I haven't seen that. The player is not user friendly, because a lot of features that reviewers are saying are not on this player actually are. You have to read the user manual to figure out how to enable/disable some of them.

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Awesome player

Posted Nov 27, 2007 - Very nice product to have. Play all divx movies. For the price this is a very good product. If the remote had been designed a bit better it would have been an even better product. very very satisfied with the product.

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A good product with some issues

Posted Nov 10, 2007 - This is a good product from philips that is quite affordable. The best of all, is that it can play movies in a USB hard disk or flash driver directly. That is very cool. The movie can just be the divx movies and it can play. I have also tried dvd-rw discs. One old brand cannot be played. One newer brand (imatation) can be played. The problem is of course the USB connection is USB 1.1 only. Therefore it won't be able to play the high bit rate movies. Also the file names in the hard disk become 8.3 short names. It's kind of mess.

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Dirt cheap HDMI DVD Player that does the job

Posted Nov 1, 2007 - Bought this for $60 online, it does the job well and the 1080p upconverted picture is much better than you get on most 480p progressive scan DVD players. It's also really tiny and small, and fits easily on top of your cable box. Not much to really say about his player but that it works and for $60 it's quite the bargain. A couple of weaknesses: the remote is really bad and the keys stick (but if you use a universal remote then this isn't an issue). Also the LCD display on the DVD player is kind of random and cheap, but again, the HD upconverted picture more than makes up for this.

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Excellent budget player

Posted Oct 21, 2007 - I have been very happy with this player since upgrading from an older Toshiba. PQ is far better on my HDTV than the old player. USB works flawlessly. Highly recommended!

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