Posted by Mike S. on 06/22/06 12:01

In article <hk7k92p0fm6pu5sgb1abcc5kn31sq7gh0n@4ax.com>,
dgates <dgates@spamlinkline.com> wrote:
>On 20 Jun 2006 20:22:04 GMT, retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.) wrote:
>
>>
>>In article <feoe6216v0nj3tofs1v2e29qd3ojkutqnm@4ax.com>,
>>dgates <dgates@spamlinkline.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>There are a few things that I'd like to be able to do with my DVD
>>>machine, most of which I've been able to do with past machines, but
>>>never all at once. I don't think I can get all of these in one
>>>machine, but I thought I'd ask.
>>>
>>>1. Play DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW
>>>2. Play AVI files (probably DivX) straight off a CD-R or one of the
>>>above discs.
>>>3. Play all regions.
>>>4. Be ready for our HDTV we'll be buying in a couple of months.
>>>5. Record DVDs
>>>6. Macrovision removal.
>>>
>>>They're listed in the order of importance. I'd love to hear that one
>>>machine can do all of the above. If not, 1 through 4 should be
>>>enough.
>>>
>>>
>>>TIA to anyone who can recommend a model.
>>
>>Ignoring #5 and #6, have a look at the 2006 Philips models that use the
>>MediaTek chipset. The DVP5490 can be made region free with a quick remote
>>hack, and by all acounts has significantly better image quality than the
>>aging DVP642. It also supports more DIVX/XVID encoding schemes and
>>natively supports subtitles.
>>
>>If you don't need HDMI, the DVP5140 has similar features for $30 or so
>>less.
>
>
>Perhaps I'm not searching intelligently, but I can find almost zero
>matches on the whole web for DVP5490. Did you transpose a digit or
>something?

Actually, two. Apologies, it's the DVP5960. It basically duplicates the
features of the DVP5140 with the addition of HDMI output, and menus to
select the upconverted image size.

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