Philips DVP5990 HDMI 1080p Upscaling DVD Player
Sep 23, 2009 in
Electronics
- Bring audio and video to life HDMI digital output with only one cable,12-bit/108MHz video processing,192kHz/24 bit audio DAC enhances analogue sound.
- Play all your movies and music, DivX, MP3, WMA and JPEG digital camera photos, CD, (S)VCD, DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW
- Picture enhancement Flip photos, Rotate, Zoom,Slideshow with MP3 playback, High Definition Resolution,
- Parental Control, On-Screen Display languages: American, Canadian French, Mexican Spanish, MM USB memory class device, rear connections,
- Power supply: 120V, 60Hz,Power consumption:12¿W,Standby power consumption:1.0 W, Included Accessories: 2 x AAA Batteries, Quick start guide
Philips HDMI 1080p DVD player with true high definition video upscaling, D/A converter: 12 bit, 108 MHz progressive Scan, High Def (720p, 1080i, 1080p), Video Upscaling(720p, 1080i/p)192kHz/24 bit audio DAC enhances analogue sound input, High definition JPEG playback for images in true resolution, Brings your PC to your living room with Windows Media Video playback, DivX Ultra for enhanced playback of DivX media files, Plays DivX, MP3, WMA and JPEG digital camera photos, Plays CD, (S)VCD, DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, Direct conversion from CD to MP3, USB Direct plays DivX movies, photos and music from USB flash drives… More >>
Philips DVP5990 HDMI 1080p Upscaling DVD Player
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5 comments
Matthew Cash on September 23, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I guess I didn’t understand what I was buying. I wanted a Divx HD player. Both of those words are on the box, but they don’t go together. Max res is standard DVD. It will not play anything higher. It’s a hardware limitation so don’t think that a firmware update will fix it. The only benefits to this player above older Philips is that it has HDMI out. So your standard DVDs will look slightly better. It’s not really worth it though, standard def is standard def. HDMI won’t make it look that much better than component. Another selling feature of this player is the USB. But not so fast, read the fine print. It can’t read my Creative Zen for instance. You have to format your external device to Fat32, it doesnt understand NTFS. So in the end, if all you need is a regular DVD player its fine, but for HD, find another.
J. Burke on September 23, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I bought this so I could play HD Divx on my HD TV. I have been wrestling with it for the past 3 days and can only get it to play the same file in low res DIVX off a USB drive. That works fine. When I try to get it to play 720 HD (695mb file) on a USB drive, it gives me the msg “video resolution not supported.” It does play the sound, but not the video. I have a 1080p TV. I even tried it on another HD TV with no luck. I even tried burning the HD file to a DVD and got the same msg. Why won’t a Divx compatible player play an HD Divx file off a DVD that was burned with the Divx player? That is really stupid. The DVD plays on my computer, but not the TV. Even tried it with component cables (HDMI disconnected) and same msg. I just do not think it will play HD Divx. I changed all sorts of settings, 16:9, 4:3, etc with no luck. Otherwise, it seems to be just another generic DVD player.
Constandinos Carlaftes on September 23, 2009 at 8:43 pm
All I wanted was to not have to buy an expensive blue ray disc player and to find any place that still sells upscaling DVD players that could be connected to one’s HD flat screen with an HDMI cable, since Best Buy and its’ ilk no longer carry such machines. So maybe it’s because I purchased a “refurbished” Phillips’ unit from an Amazon Marketplace Seller for under $50, but this machine never worked once, from the day it came out of the box. Had to unplug it a dozen times to effectively “reboot” it to get some kind of reaction from it, and I feared that three different dvds would be lost forever when the “open/close function” wouldn’t respond. I am returning to the seller who advises me that they have gotten the same complaint from other customers. The cool thing was that yesterday, Radio Shack began a sale on a Memorex player with the same features for 39.99 plus 5.99 for a one year replacement guarantee, and the Memorex appears to be working fine. Never buy Pillips products, especially the ones that have been “refurbished”.
Trevor Miller on September 23, 2009 at 11:30 pm
We have been using this player for about three weeks now, replacing an expensive Samsung unit that died at about 18 months just like every other DVD player we have ever owned.
This is a solid player. No problems from us with all aspects of DVD playback via the HDMI port.
One of this player’s more interesting features is that you can play movies via the front USB port. What was not clear from the copy in the listing is the particulars of that playback.
Playback via the USB port is playback of JPG files and various video files on a flash drive (“thumb drive” or whatever you might call it) via USB 1.1 (not USB 2.0). Also, playback of files on a hard drive (as I had hoped) is not supported. Codec support is pretty good (meaning that most stuff you download will probably play). Large JPEGs are a bad idea, since they take forever to load via USB 1.1.
Jess Blackwolf on September 24, 2009 at 1:12 am
Don’t know what Philips did here. Always had good luck with their products in the past, but this one is a flop.Bad experience all the way around. Bought it refurbished thinking that what ever problem this model has may have been taken care of…no such luck.
It only played part of one store-bought DVD then froze. Had to unplug unit several times for it even to spit my DVD back out. Decided to give it another chance…it got as far as the menu on a different DVD and froze, giving me the same problem getting my DVD back out of the machine. Had to do a return on the player which has (so far) been a 1 1/2 month fiasco and I still have not had my account reimbursed for the player or the $25 it cost me to send it back.