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Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player |  | Brand: Philips
Category: CE
List Price: $79.99
Buy Used: $49.99
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Rating:  1041 reviews
Sales Rank: 12847
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Memory Type: Unknown
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 17.1 x 9.8 x 1.7
Warranty: 1 Year Limited Wrranty
MPN: DVP642
Model: DVP642
UPC: 000000000000
EAN: 0037449946019
ASIN: B000204SWE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Plays DVD-Video, video CD, audio CD, JPEG image CD, and CDs loaded with MP3, MPEG-4, or DivX 3.11/4.x/5.x files | | • | Progressive-scan output for seamless, flicker-free images on HD-ready TVs; SmartPicture and 4x video upsampling enhance all outputs | | • | Optical and coaxial digital-audio terminals pass Dolby Digital and DTS surround signals | | • | PAL-to-NTSC format conversion--great for viewing non-region-encoded European discs | | • | Measures 17.1 x 1.7 x 9.3 inches (W x H x D) |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description Tap into multimedia fun with Philips' broad-format, high-style, and ultra-slim DVP642 DVD player. The DVP642 is not only a high-end progressive-scan DVD player equipped to offer scintillating images on high-definition and HD-ready TVs, it's a tech-savvy player that spins your MP3- and JPEG-encoded recordable CDs (as well as Kodak's and Fuji's variants of the same) and CDs loaded with MPEG-4 and DivX video (3.11, 4.x, and 5.x files), perfect for viewing Internet-sourced content in your home theater. Want more? The player also converts Region 1/All Region PAL-formatted discs (the video standard in Europe) for viewing on standard NTSC televisions (and vice-versa, if only for video CDs).
The DVP642's progressive-scan functionality allows compatible TVs to display the even and odd numbered lines of an image in a single pass. This minimizes screen flicker, which is easier on your eyes.
| Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVP642 stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Playback options include five-disc resume, which lets you pick up where you left off on your five most recently viewed DVDs (not applicable for MP3 or JPEG CDs), disc-lock parental controls, and picture zoom for magnification of select images. | The player will play JPEG images one by one automatically, letting you zoom in, rotate, or flip the picture vertically or horizontally. For MP3 playback, the player offers track time display, album and track selection, and repeat (disc/album/track). The DivX media format is MPEG-4 based video compression that lets you save large files like films, movie trailers, and music videos on recordable media. Philips' 4x video upsampling offers smoother images even when viewing interlaced (nonprogressive) signals through the player's component-video, S-video, or standard composite-video outputs. SmartPicture provides optimum picture settings for color, brightness, saturation, contrast, sharpness, etc., to enhance your overall viewing experience at all times. The player will play JPEG images one by one automatically, letting you zoom in, rotate, or flip the picture vertically or horizontally. For MP3 playback, the player offers track time display, album and track selection, and repeat (disc/album/track). The DivX media format is MPEG-4 based video compression that lets you save large files like films, movie trailers, and music videos on recordable media. A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Dolby Digital 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. What's in the Box
DVD-Video player, remote control with batteries, a user's manual, and an analog audio/composite-video interconnect.
Product Description
Dreaming of a player that plays practically any disc format and at the same time enjoy flawless, true-to-life picture quality? Now you can! With Philips DVD players, staying home has never been better as the promised movies and music entertainment experience will be delivered right to you.
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 FIX for blinking red light, plus BONUS: Region-Free code July 18, 2010
Jason Kirkfield (Rocky Mountain High)
This was a great player which, by entering a simple three-digit code* via the remote, was easily turned into a cheap Region-Free DVD player. Unfortunately, this line of Philips players also has a weakness: a capacitor on the board goes bad (specifically, C316), and since it controls the power supply, this effectively ends the unit's life for most home users. Googling DVP642 and "blinking red light" will yield many, many instances of this specific failure. To be sure, plenty of low-star reviews here on Amazon evidence the same problem.
But if you are handy with a soldering gun and don't mind spending two bucks at Radio Shack, I can assure you with moderate certainty that this DVD player will keep on tickin'; certainly it worked for me. I will include a DIY fix-it link in the Comments section below. In fact, a handy and enterprising soul could conceivably pick up some "broken" units, perform the fix, unlock the region code, and sell them as reconditioned Region-Free players.
In the interim I moved on to the slightly more expensive (but still great value) Philips DVP5990/F7 DVD Player with 1080p HDMI Upconversion and DivX; the DVP642 is now ready as a backup. If mine had not died, I would probably rate it four stars. As it is, I still rate this three stars because even with the necessary fix, you still get a Region-Free DVD player that plays tons of formats for forty bucks. The remote control is junky, though.
*The code for this model is 789.
Full instructions to change the region setting (i.e., Region 1 = USA/Canada, Region 2 = Europe/Japan, Region 5 = Russia/India, Region 0 = ALL REGIONS):
Turn on DVD player
Open disc tray
Using the remote, enter 7,8,9, then OK (this accesses the hidden region setting menu)
Enter 0, then OK (this chooses Region 0; you may notice a zero appearing briefly in the lower left side of your screen)
Close the tray, turn off DVD player, then turn back on to test. Now you can enjoy DVDs from around the world!
 Good progressive scan player May 27, 2010
K. Joyce (Chicago IL)
Good progressive scan DVD player. Only drawbacks I see are no HDMI output (have to use component) and no USB input.
 Garbage. May 6, 2010
Melody (New York City)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Same problem as many other reviews. Flashing power/standby light. I've treated this thing like gold and it craps out for no reason. How can Phillips produce a product like this and not stand behind it, especially since this is such a widespread issue??? I know it has something to do with a bulging capacitor on the main board, but, I don't have any soldering irons or tech know-how to fix it myself. Going with a Sony next time around.
 Phillips DVD Player January 30, 2010
William D. Schwartz
This dvd player was very nice, played dvd, cd, mp3 and avi. Unfortunately it died after just 1 year of service, but for the price of under $50.00 it was worth buying.
Owned Two: Both Died December 29, 2009
Gingersnap (Pleasanton, CA)
3 months after purchasing this Phillips DVD player it started acting funny. It would be temperamental about which discs it would play despite all of them being authentic USA DVD's purchased from Borders or wherever. More than half the time you put a disc in the DVD player now, it just freezes with the screen saying "loading". It wont respond to anything so you just have to unplug it. This has even been the case with brand new DVDs so it isn't due to scratches. As of yesterday, the screen will go blank and then turn to a green flashing screen sometimes when in the middle of a movie or it will slow down to slow-motion and stop responding. This is the 2nd Philips DVD player I've owned, the first was the exact same model and crapped out in the exact same with within 6 months.
I would strongly suggest looking at other DVD players. This one is cheap, lightweight, thin and stylish, but it simply doesn't work. I will not buy Philips brand electronics again.
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