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 the popular MPEG4 format (with the proprietary codec DivX or the open source Xvid codec). Not only does it support DivX, it's one of the first units featuring the "DivX certified" logo by Divx Networks, which should guarantee perfect playback of DivX-encoded files. Also supports Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.
It supports the following media formats: CD-R, CD-RW, Audio CD, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-R, VCD, SVCD, Picture CD, and DVD Video.
It'd play everything I threw at it... that is until I got the red blinking light of death. You'll go over to turn on your Philips DVD player one day and it just won't come on, the most you'll get is the stand-by (or power) light will just blink red every few seconds.
Apparently this red blinking light is very common. If you google "dvp642 capacitor" you'll find hundreds of websites referring to the problem.
Luckily the solution is simple. There's a capacitor located at position C316 on the power supply board that goes bad and replacing it with a new one fixes the problem. The capacitor, model 272-1032, only costs $1.59 at radioshack, but you'll need some experience with soldering and a soldering iron.
That said it's a great little dvd player, just be prepared to fix it someday.
Measures 17.1 x 1.7 x 9.3 inches (W x H x D); Plays DVD-Video, video CD, audio CD, JPEG image CD, and CDs loaded with MP3, MPEG-4, or DivX 3.11/4.x/5....More at Amazon Marketplace
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