Philips DVP642 DVD Player

Pros: plays almost any format, nice slim style, good picture and sound quality for price
Cons: short lifespan, no menu buttons on unit itself, wider than most, only silver no black

I have only had my DVP642 for less than 2 years (I paid $60 at Wal*Mart) when it suddenly would no longer recognize any of the DivX avi discs and DVDs would start looking choppy or freeze in the middle of it, forcing me to go back and forth until it ...

Pros: Plays everything
Cons: Quality is horrible! Guaranteed to break within 1-3 years

It was a great DVD player. I've had mine for about 3 years now and I've been very happy with it. It has the ability to play almost every format you throw at it, including MP3 audio, JPEG, MPEG1 video, MPEG2 (.MPG) video and AVI video clips encoded in ...

Pros: DVD/CD/VCD/DVX/MP3/PAL/multi-region playback
Cons: No sound in fast forward mode, speed limited to 8x

My previous system was Go-Video DVD-VCR combo, which I still use as a VCR, but its DVD player eventually made me run out of my patience because of frequent freezes and NTSC/region1 restrictions. So I bought Philips DVP642. It gave me instant ...

Pros: Sleek, very good ergonomics, plays almost everything I put in it! Highly recommend.
Cons: If it had only one more video out to connect to a DVD recorder.

Boy, am I happy with this!! I almost bought it by accident a couple of years back. This must be my best electronics buy ever! A nice unit, silver in color and very sleek. Looks good I play divx, mpegs and lots of formats. Except rm files this plays ...

Pros: It absolutely does play all formats
Cons: Won't resume reliably; too long a pause returns it to start menu or powers off

I bought this 8 months ago and am now looking for a new DVD player. This was a great DVD player to begin with; it certainly does play all formats. BUT many, many of the DVDs I rent will not play; I've noticed that Sony DVDs made after Jan 07 will ...

Pros: Good construction, great price, good DVD playback, reliability, plays avi.
Cons: Only plays avi. No ogg or mkv. Need to re-encode some Divx files.

This DVD player comes with a unique feature that makes it very worth it's $45 price tag on Amazon right now. It plays Divx files that are encoded into .avi format. It will also play Xvid files. Now there is a lot of content available on the internet, ...

Pros: Great DVD player - can play PAL format DVDS.
Cons: You have to actually hack the DVD player to make it multi region.

I can highly recommend this DVD player to anyone, who just needs a basic DVD player, and I can especially recommend this DVD player to anyone who needs to play PAL DVDs or other formats. The Philips DVDP 542 DVD player, is a very basic DVD player, but ...

Pros: Plays everything, well constructed, easy to operate & cheap!
Cons: Poor remote control design, poor JPEG image quality, horrible warranty & some DivX problems.

Playback formats: Video: DVD, DVD R/RW, DVD-R/-RW, VCD, SVCD, MPEG-4, DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x Audio: CD, CD-R/RW, MP3-CD* (-256 kbps) Pictures: Picture-CD (JPEG) with music (MP3*) Plays MP3-CD (supports 32, 56, 64, 96, 128, 256 kbps and variable ...

Pros: good for the price.
Cons: The dislikes are: inability to play .ogm files and some mpg files.

First of all, many thanks to all those people who wrote reviews and tips and tricks to get it working. I have owned this dvp642 for about 6 months now and could play only 50% of my DivX collection on DVDs for all this time I owned it. I was seriously ...

Pros: plays almost all DVD & CD formats including DivX, sharp images, good sound, affordable
Cons: images and sound could be better

Even though we rarely watch DVDs, we’ve gone through five* (hubby had to replace his PS2 once) different players over the past five or so years. My husband initially dragged me into the DVD world by buying a PlayStation 2 and persuading me that ...

Pros: - Region-free DVD player - Plays both NTSC and PAL
Cons: - Poor durability - Terrible design of remote and onscreen menus

Unlike most other reviewers, I didn't care in the least for the multi-format playing (Divx, etc). The reason I bought this DVD was to be able to play my European DVDs (particularly British comedy). After having entered a 'secret' code on the remote, it ...

Pros: Will play almost any format/codec burn or commercial DVD you put in it.
Cons: Not HDTV/HD Movies compatible.

The absolute current model number of this player is: Phillips DVP642/37. Take this from a guy who has run through nearly a dozen DVD players. This includes one MS Xbox used as DVD player, because prior to getting that thing, I couldn't find a DVD ...

Pros: Cheap, slim, DIVX playback, progressive scan.
Cons: No DVD-R playback, remote control is dinky.

A few weeks ago I needed a new DVD player in a major way. Believe it or not I had been using my Xbox as my primary DVD player in the living room for a couple of years now (I know it's a horrible player and I had quite a few problems with it), but I ...

Pros: Plays Divx and Netflix DVDs wonderfully; Slim design
Cons: Poor reliability due to bad capacitor on PS board; mine lasted 6 months before dying

This is a great thin machine that plays Netflix DVDs perfectly and can be set to be region free for watching foreign DVDs. You can find out how to set the region free by searching on the net. I also like the slim design because it fits easily with all ...

Pros: Plays ANY DVD, plays DivX movies, plays MPG movies, and MP3 CDs, great price.
Cons: Complicated manual, small and confusing remote, unclear menus.

I originally bought this DVD player because my old Sanyo DVD player wouldn't play very many of the DVDs that I burned on my computer. Half of the time, I'd burn the movies and they'd constantly skip on my player, but would be fine on someone else's ...