Reply to is the philips 642 still the best for playing avi,divx,xvid off a dvd or is there a newer better model any and all info welcome
Posted by on 06/23/06 01:36
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