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Posted by dgates on 05/20/06 08:20
On Fri, 19 May 2006 18:05:16 -0700, "Leadfoot" <notspam@nospam.net>
wrote:
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>"dgates" <dgates@spamlinkline.com> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:47:13 -0400, "Glassman" <jksinrod@aol.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>"dgates" <dgates@spamlinkline.com> wrote in message
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>>> I just got the Philips 642 for $49 at Circuit City. I can't tell you
>>> how
>>>thrilled I am to be able to play my millions of downloaded .AVI's, .DIVX,
>>>.MPG's from CDR's & DVD's that I used to be forced to watch on my computer
>>>monitor. It plays everything I have, even stuff from over 5 years ago. I
>>>put Season 4 .avi's of "24", on 2 DVD's and the quality is near DVD on my
>>>old 32" TV! The only thing I can't answer is your HDTV question.
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>> I see the $49 price at Circuit City as well.
>>
>> Just to confirm: The model I can walk into my local Circuit City and
>> buy... That's the same model that will play DivX AVI files and DVDs
>> from other regions?
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>The only drawback to the DVP642 is that there is known problem of a PS
>capacitor blowing aftter 4 months to a year and half of use.
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>Search DVP642 + Blinking
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>Then again after mine went out with the blinking light after a year and half
>and after doing some research I went back and bought another DVP642 at
>CompUSA last week for 65$ w/tax.
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>For 65$ considering what I know it will do I thought the risk was worth it
>and "maybe" they have it fixed
Well, I went out and bought it.
I drove to Circuit City figuring "Hey, for $49, I'll try it." It
turned out it was $69 when you buy it from a Circuit City walk-in
store, but by then I had driven over, walked in and wanted to have
bought it from a walk-in store in case I wanted an easy return.
I see there is some known "blinking" problem that might happen in a
year, and that, to those who have used a soldering gun in the last 20
years, it's not that hard to fix. My guess is that, if mine blows
out, I won't try to learn how to fix it. I'll either buy a new one or
buy another model or something.
I was very surprised to find that I got a BETTER picture playing a
DVD-R with 13 hour-long AVI files than I did playing a DVD-R in which
I had used Sonic LE to burn only 2 of those files as movie files. (I
might be too tired to be explaining this well.)
I typed in the code to make it region-free ("7 8 9 OK 0" on the remote
control with an open tray) and it worked. I can now play my Region 2
Jonathan Creek DVDs.
I'm still deciding what I think of it. I've had a couple other DVD
players that did some tricks (an Apex and a Yamakawa, both
region-free), and it just seems that "tricky" DVD players also seem to
have less friendly interfaces.
There are some oddities here and there. For example, speed-searching
around within an AVI file isn't nearly as easy as it is on a regular
movie DVD using my Sony player. And it only displays the first 11
characters of filenames.
But the only reason I'm even bumping into these problems is: I have a
DVD player that can play AVI files! :-)
So, we'll see how long the machinery lasts. We'll see if I get better
at speedsearching with it. But for now, I'm happy to be able to play
every format I can think of in this little player.
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