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| Brand: Philips
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 2203
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.3
Dimensions (in): 22.5 x 13.7 x 3.3
MPN: DVP5960/05
Model: DVP5960/05
EAN: 8710895940146
ASIN: B000G2Y59E
Release Date: December 4, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
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Fantastoc DVD Player Shame about the remote May 30, 2008
Mr. David P. Anthony
The Player is great dose evrything you need and the front USB port is realy handy for watching Downloaded (LEGALY) material br /The only drawback is the remote is very basic and has poor range about 4 foot
 Very happy especially for the money May 26, 2008
D. Barlass (UK)
Believe it or not this is my first ever DVD player! I've been buying DVD's for years watching them on a computer. Never got round to buying a stand alone player, despite the fact that they have been cheap as chips for some years now. But just recently I bought as nice HD ready LCD TV (26" LG LC55) thought it was about time I finally bought a DVD to hook up to it. I was looking at a Blu-Ray player but they are still a bit on the pricey side at the moment so I started looking at standard DVD players. I had no idea that you could now buy non HD players that had HDMI outputs upscaling. I naively assumed that standard DVD players would all still be SCART! br / br /So I ws very pleased to find that there are some very affordable DVD players out there that supported HDMI connectivity. I went for the Phillips based on some of the more positive reviews here. It's a really nice looking unit as well. Very thin not to many buttons on the front panel so it looks simple clean. The USB port looks a bit odd on the front but it's becomming an almost standard feature on modern home entertainment equipment so it's obviously important to have it there for accessibility. To be honest though I can't see that I'd ever use it. Would be useful for displaying photos from a USB device I guess. Not sure about watching compressed video through it though. The player does support a large range of DVD video formats including DVD/R DIVX. Useful if you 'obtain' movies online then burn them to DVD for use in a player. I've never done this so it's not a feature I was particularly concerned with. Might come in handy one day I guess. br / br /The important features for me were the HDMI outputs upscaling, which I thought would give me the best display on my LCD TV without going to Blu-Ray. I'm very pleased on this front. Image if very sharp clear, colours are good contrast is good. Is that down to the DVD player or my new TV? I don't really know enough about this stuff to say! But I'm very happy with the results. Not sure about the upscaling thing though. To me the image looked the same if the DVD player upscaling was on Auto, 720 or 1080. Maybe I'd notice a difference on the lower settings? In any case things look pretty damn good on Auto so that will do me. br / br /Not much else to say really except that it's very easy to set-up the menu system is easy enugh to navigate. This to me seems like a real bargain for what you get. It's also very easy to make the player region free (following a simple procedure found amongst the reviews on this page), which is good as I have some DVD's from the states. I think I read some reviews that mentioned the remote was a bit dodgy. I've had no problems. Works a treat it's a very compact neat remote unlike some I've seen being just short of a foot long with more buttons than a 747 cockpit. So for me it's all good really. Very happy with the whole package. Especially for the price. br / br /A great package at a bargain price a perfect stop gap until Blu-Ray players come down in price (both the players the media, which at the moment seems to be roughly about 3 times the cost of stanadard DVD's). Seems to me that at the moment a decent arrodable HD ready LCD TV + a budget DVD player with HDMI outputs your getting someway towards the Blue-Ray experience anyway being that the imge is very sharp, bright clear. Of course Blu-Ray will be that bit sharper, brighter clearer but at many times the cost I can afford to wait a while for that sort of clarity ;-)
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