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Product Description: Philips DVP5140 Progressive Scan DVD Player, can play CD-R/W, DivX, DVD, DVD+R/W, DVD-R/W DVD-Video, MP3, MPEG4, Picture CDs, VCD, and SVCD. That's right, all of this in one small package for an incredibly reasonable price. All while delivering quality picture and audio performance. Component video output lets you connect this DVD player to your high-end home television set to optimize viewing quality.From the Manufacturer: 192KHz sampling enables you to have an accurate representation of the original sound curves. Together with a 24-bit resolution, more information is captured from the original analogue sound wave form, giving a much richer audio reproduction.Multi-format playability allows you to play most disc formats for maximum disc compatibility and listening pleasure. 12-bit Video DAC is a superior Digital-to-Analogue-Converter that preserves every detail of the authentic picture quality. It shows subtle shades and smoother graduation of colors, resulting in a more vibrant and natural picture. The limitation of the usual 10bit DAC become in particular apparent while using large screens and projectors. The attractive enclosure has a very low profile. DivX Ultra combines DivX playback with great features like integrated subtitles, multiple audio languages, multiple tracks and menus into one convenient file format. Multi-format playability allows you to play most disc formats for maximum disc compatibility and viewing pleasure. Picture CD is a CD-R or CD-RW disc on which you can store your MP3 and digital pictures. When inserting a Picture CD in the DVD player, a screen menu will pop up, showing your JPEG's and/or MP3 files on the disc. Just select the music and pictures files you wish to enjoy and press play or OK. You can watch your pictures on TV with your music playing simultaneously. Progressive Scan doubles the vertical resolution of the image resulting in a noticeably sharper picture. Instead of sending a field comprising the odd lines to the screen first, followed by the field with the even lines, both fields are written at one time. A full image is created instantaneously, using the maximum resolution. At such a speed, your eye perceives a sharper picture with no line structure. Other standard features include:
- 192kHz/24-bit audio DAC delivers high-quality audio.
- 12-bit/ 108Mhz video DAC for sharp image with natural colors.
- Ultra-slim design.
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Philips DVP5140 Multiformat DVD Player with DivX, MP3, Windows Media Support Features:
- DivX 3.1, Mpeg 4 video
- Ultra Slim Design
- Progressive Scan
- Component and composite video outputs, digital coax and analog stereo audio outputs
- Windows Media
Customer Reviews:
- A great little region free DVD player: I've had this player for about a week now and so far, so good. After putting in the code to make it region free, it has been able to play all my PAL DVDs with no problem (as well as NTSC.) The quality of this device is really good so far. My only complaint is with the remote; there is no open/close button on the remote. Oh, and there seems to be some kind of energy saving thing going on because it powers off after about 1/2 hour of not using it. I guess I'll have to look through the settings to see if I can change that... But otherwise, I've been happy. Definitely worth the price!
- Good for the price: The only problem I have with this DVD player is that it takes a long time to process a command. It takes a few seconds to turn on, a few seconds to open the tray, and a long time to load the DVD.
- What more could you want?: I was looking for a DVD player that would play the most formats. I had one of the $30 cheapos from Wal*Mart which worked fine for me, but my wife is from Russia and we started getting quite a few DVDs that my old machine wouldn't play. After buying this one, I haven't been able to stump it yet. It will even play DVDs that my other machine couldn't read because they were scratched. I couldn't ask for more.
The remote seems a little wimpy though. It seems to have trouble contacting the DVD player through the tinted glass on the front of my cabinet. - Works just fine: Once I received the DVD player it was very easy to attached to my TV. Being a person not exactly technically gifted it was easy to install and use. Works as stated and have no complaints.
- Old guy review: Just thought I'd add something as an "old guy" who finds a lot of tech stuff pretty scary. I was really hesitant to buy this because I needed something that would play my Region 2 DVDs. but this wasn't ready to play them out of the box. I've always had bad luck when I had to do anything to make something "work", but in this case I just followed the instructions that some kind soul laid out in the first review of this product, and I had no problems whatsoever turning this into a mutiformat player, that plays everything I've tried to play from Region 2.
The only reason I took one star away is because it really does have a terrible remote. Other than that I'm very happy with this (especially for the price).
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