Philips DVP5982 DVD Player

Pros: Reliability. Overall ease of use. Stylishness. Compatibility with various media that other units can't play.
Cons: Unlike the console, remote lacks dedicated "open/close" key. (Must hold down "STOP".)

Prefatory note #1: You can find great deals on this DVD player via various vendors. For example, as of this writing, Bestbuy.com has this model "on sale" for only $59.49 (you must "temporarily place the item in your shopping cart" to see its ...

Pros: DivX support, USB port, great styling, overall good performance.
Cons: Somewhat slow USB port, "cheap" remote.

The Philips DVP5982 DVD Player is the top model in Philips popular line of feature rich, inexpensive DVD players. Some of the features that make the $70 (street) Philips 5982 attractive include: -USB input, displays images and plays ...

Pros: Price, 1080p over HDMI, features, PAL playback and conversion to NTSC, computer video playback, USB
Cons: Poor remote, cheap LCD display, not easy to use, stutters on some DivX files

I have had the original king of DivX, a.k.a. Philips DVP642 for a while and considering its impressive feature list (including PAL playback on NTSC TV, DivX playback and progressive scan), I was relatively happy with ...

Pros: Very affordable very versatile upscaling DVD player.
Cons: No optical out, no single frame fast forward or reverse, chintzy remote.

I am not ready yet to make the jump to Blu - Ray or HD-DVD. I've taken home and tried each of these players, and decided to wait some more to see who wins the war. I don't even have a 1080P HDTV yet, so I really wouldn't get the full benefit of either ...

Pros: Very affordable very versatile upscaling DVD player.
Cons: No optical out, Poor remote

I was given this item recently without my wanting of it. Although initially I was skeptical of actually enjoying the product I soon was found using it quite often. As I became learned in this technology I started to develop a higher knowledge than I had ...

Pros: The price for an upconversion dvd player.
Cons: Malfunctions in a short time.

I purchased this dvd player in Feb '08 for an RCA tv...to no avail.  10 months later, I hooked it up to my old school Magnavox tv via RF mod.  For 2 months it worked fine; then suddenly, the player began to play games...fortunately, I was able to get my dvd disc out.

I turned the player off; yet it turned back on within a few seconds! The disc slot, never opened.  I emailed Sony tech and it taken 3 weeks for a response (now out of warranty).  I reconnected the player; within 1 month, the 4th dvd was a 2 hour movie...30 minutes later the dvd disc kicked out and it reverted back to turning on automatically.  That's it!

Recently, I purchased a Denon 1940ci dvd player.  Currently, I'm waiting to see how long this last.

Pros: crisp sharp picture slim nice looking unit
Cons: for 70 bucks ? I don't think so .

Very e z set up . Makes old dvd s look great by converting to 1080p . I couldn't decide between blue ray and hd dvd so I decided to go low price with 1080p up and the reviews on this all said it was great and it is . This is so good that the new generation units will have to come down to half the price they are now before i would even consider one . If you want the "I got more than I paid for feeling" this is it . Remote is small and light weight but it works fine .Oh and i didnt notice it being slow .... It may be but it seems fine to me .

Pros: USB access on front panel, simple to operate
Cons: Average DVD quality, Unreliable DivX, Firmware upgrade makes it a brick, Philips doesn't care

The DVP 5982 initially seemed OK- the image quality for JPEG's was less than I had hoped. My main reason for purchasing was to try and display photo slideshows from a USB stick with HDTV resolution. No surprise, the 'upgrading' feature produces 480p quality of images only. DivX function was unreliable, whether from a DVD or USB stick, so stick with basic DVD's on this unit. And if you're expecting the DVDs to look remarkably better with this unit on your HDTV than with a regular DVD player, guess again. Playing off my laptop to the HDTV does a far better job. Lastly, hoping that upgrading the firmware would salvage this purchase, I was rewarded with it turning the unit into a brick. Philips offered no, that's right- zero, support.

Fortunately, it was a relatively cheap lesson to learn that one should not purchase from Philips.