Product DescriptionBring your audio and video to life with an excellent HDMI DVD player for your TV. When you use an HDMI port for connectivity with your 1080p capable TV. this Philips DV5982 DVD Player will upconvert an ordinary DVD to appear as if it were native to 1080p. This extremely compact player plays a wide variety of DVD discs as well as DiVX discs. It can also double as a CD player and will even play CD-R discs that have encoded MP3 files. So when you add this component to your home-theater system, it delivers outstanding, versatile audio and video performance. Then there's more! Somewhat unique to DVD players is the inclusion of a USB port at the front of the unit. If you use a USB-equipped media card reader or a USB Flash pocket drive, you can export images from your digital camera or card-based camcorder directly to your player for throughput to your TV. Widescreen ready, this player is an ideal companion for your new widescreen HDTV in your home. DivX Ultra Certified for enhanced playback of DivX videos Plays CD, (S)VCD, DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW (Region 1) Plays DivX, MP3, WMA and JPEG digital camera photos DivX Certified for standard playback Signal to noise ratio - 90 Distortion and Noise (1kHz) - 65 dB Crosstalk (1kHz) - 70 dB Dynamic Range (1kHz) - 80 dB Frequency response - 30-20000 Hz Playback Media - CD, CD-R/CD-RW, Video CD/SVCD, DVD, DivX, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, DVD-Video Compression formats - MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX 3.11, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, DivX 6.0, DivX Ultra Playback Media - CD, MP3-CD, MP3-DVD, CD-R/RW, WMA-CD & Audio CD Compression format - Dolby Digital, MP3, PCM & WMA MP3 bit rates - 32 - 320 kbps Playback Media - DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, CD-R/RW, Picture CD, Kodak Picture CD Picture compression format - JPEG, TIFF Rear Connectivity - Analog audio Left/Right out, Composite video (CVBS) output, HDMI output, Digital coaxial out, Component Video out Progressive Di
What Others Say
multi-region DVD player
Bought this to play Region 1 & Region 2 DVDs (US & UK) - works great when you've entered the code.
Bonus is that it connects straight into the HDMI port (single cable/connector) and upscales to HD format.
Basic but good value.
Very Nice, but...
I purchased this DVD player in May so that I could play my "avi" movies stored on Western Digital Passport (external hard drive). This player will not power the passport. I two sticks of Kingston 4gb data traveler flash drives and it would not work on this player. My son purchased 2 sticks of 4gb by Transcend and they worked perfectly. I am still looking for a DVD player that will play my WD passport.
Also, I could not get my photos to play from my 80gb IPOD. I would have given it 3 stars but I didn't see where the description said it would play these devices. I thought that since it had the USB port it would play.
It doen't play WMV files
The only problem is that it doesn't play WMV files, but you can find DVP5992 that can play some version of WMV files
it was what we thought it was
i purchased this unit for its purported ability to play dvds of any region, and to convert PAL to NTSC. using instructions found in another post here, i was easily able to set the player to region-free, et voila. it works.
Great for watching international DVDs
I purchased this DVD player for watching films from Germany. The instructions for unlocking it with the remote are very simple:
press Setup
select the Preference Tab
Press 1,3,8,9,3,1
Press up/down key to select "0"
and hit menu to exit.
After you do that, you can buy foreign films from amazon.de or other international Amazon websites, and watch them on this player. Very nice and a very nice price.
