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User Submitted PHILIPS Hi-Def 1080p Up-Conversion Multi Region Codefree DVD Player with DivX HDMI and USB. Plays PAL/NTSC DVDs From Any Region Reviews Date: 2009-01-01 This thing will play anything I wanted a region-free DVD player so I could watch foreign DVDs. I found this one on amazon which also had HDMI hookup with up-conversion, so I thought it would be the right one for my HDTV. It has really turned out to be the perfect little machine. Hooking it up was easy (for god's sake, don't pay $50 for an HDMI cable at Circuit City - get one from amazon for $5). Anyway this DVD player not only plays all DVD regions, but it plays pretty much anything you can burn to disc - MP3, WMA, JPG, AVI, MPG, MP4. It's tiny, but smart. The only slight annoyances are that it's a bit slow to load discs and it's always turning itself off if you've stopped the video for a few minutes - it doesn't lose your place, but you're constantly having to turn it back on. Worth it for the diversity of playback. Great machine for the price. Date: 2008-12-20 DivX navigation is slow. Doesn't load some DivX movies Overall a decent player. Works as advertised: plays PAL, NTSC, multi-zone. A couple of negative points: - DivX navigation is slow. It takes forever to fast forward, pause/resume. - It doesn't load some DivX movies - just hangs up. The same movie works fine on a PC. Maybe it's something to do with the size: the movies were 2+ GByte. Date: 2008-11-19 Good bare bones codefree dvd player for price I've been wanting to play my region 2 dvds on a dvd player seamlessly. I got this item because it's cheap and I didn't need bells and whistle. It does a good job playing dvds. The dvd tray responds a little slow and the remote just has the basics except an eject disc button. Date: 2008-11-16 No need for other DVD player If you are a film addict and like to watch movies in their original languages... and sometimes you cannot find gems in our limited American film/DVD stores and resort to buy them abroad: Do not worry about region incompatibility with those useless codes! This machine will play it all! I love it, because besides playing any DVD in this planet, it also upsamples the ones you have to a sharper, crispier and more detailed, elegant image. Something you could only dream of if purchasing a more expensive player... or a Bluray disc player. The beauty of it is precisely how beautiful it presents the moving picture in any system you have and at a meager price, or course! How could you go wrong buying a player like that? Date: 2008-11-15 not as awesome as XBMC, chokes on H.264 AVC high Reads acceptable well from high quality USB flash drives like Corsair and Lexar. NOT a suitable replacement for an xbox with Xbox Media Center. NOT a front end for NAS. *** Will NOT play x264 / H.264 videos. *** Upscaling is nice if one has high quality HDMI cables. There are many bugs with the most current firmware related to playback of other than DVD video. Don't expect another firmware release. One will likely be invited to purchase the next hardware iteration. Easy Region Free is a plus. It is slow to complete power up. Slow to recognize no DVD in tray, then slow to decide to poll USB. Once high quality USB flash device detected no transfer rate hiccups. It is slow to eject the DVD drive. Stopping stand alone media files is VERY slow sometimes requiring mashing stop half a dozen times. Of the other brands of set top stand alone media file players sporting USB ports we've tested this one was the least annoying. If one requires MUCH better responsiveness and the ability to play 99% of available formats XBMC on Xbox360 is still the best choice. do not pay more than 15 over half a Franklin. 20 for shipping is OUTRAGEOUS. I returned mine to the amazon vendor for retard-level shipping: retail box tossed in the mail. I bought one from a membership wholesale club for less than half a Franklin.
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