VonHelton Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 just got my phillips 642 in today!!!! WOOHOO! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxmaster Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 I have the Philips DVD737. It's a great player. I have no problems with Xvid's at all. Also Xvids and Divx with AC3 sounds works perfectly. Sometimes I had some problems that the audio was out of sync. But I corrected that with VirtualDubMod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougthenut Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Hi to all British members. Lidl (the German supermarket chain operating in UK) recently launched Targa players which handle DVD, SVCD, VCD, DIVX, XVID, Windows media, JPEG and MP3, pretty well everything I've produced from my computer anyway. I've not experienced any problems with it thus far and I've deliberately tried every format I can. It even has built-in camera card readers so you can have slide shows on your TV. All this for £45.00. Sockets for everything including optical. Usual assortment of leads, SCART, audio etc. Supports Dolby, 3D surround sound etc. Couldn't resist, bought one, impressed, 'nuff said... Best of British even if it is German, eh? Best wishes to you all, Doug :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonHelton Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 I have the Philips DVD737. It's a great player. I have no problems with Xvid's at all. Also Xvids and Divx with AC3 sounds works perfectly. Sometimes I had some problems that the audio was out of sync. But I corrected that with VirtualDubMod. Burn your disks in *DATA* format.........You can get more stuff on them that way. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foil Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 I recently brought a phillips 642 as well. I'm fairly pleased although I have a couple issues that I would like to work out. 1-Longer file names on the menu screen: is this possible? 2-The clicking noise the machine constantly makes: I'm guessing this issue can't be resolved but thought I would give it a shot. Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atgxtg Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 I just picked up a Philips 642/37 too. For $70 is is a bargain. Picture quality seems as good if not better than from my PC, and that is with composite cables. I can"t wait to see it through S-Video. I do have a couple of questions. How do you determine what version of firmware is installed, and what is the URL with the latest firmeware upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foil Posted May 8, 2005 Share Posted May 8, 2005 What is the deal with the 642/37 model. I don't have the "/37" part of the model name. Did I end up with an older model? Hope not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawth Posted May 8, 2005 Share Posted May 8, 2005 Yamada (formerly UMAX) DVX6100 Player Plays everything I've thrown at it so far (MP3, DivX, XviD) Had it over a year now, no probs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3141592 Posted May 8, 2005 Share Posted May 8, 2005 Buy an old computer from ebay (~500-700Mhz) stick in a graphics card with TV-Out, load on GeexBox or simmilar. Maybe add a wireless mouse/IR remote. Cost: ~£70 100% Compatible with all media.... 100% Upgradeable to support new formats.... http://geexbox.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furious Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 What kinda DVD player do to watch torrents that i burned on my CD-R? My mum doesn't want to get us a dvd writer. Do ones who play CD-R work or do i need one that also play DivX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 What kinda DVD player do to watch torrents that i burned on my CD-R? My mum doesn't want to get us a dvd writer. Do ones who play CD-R work or do i need one that also play DivX You need one that can play divx/xvid and also ac3/mp3/wma. If it supports all these, you should be in the clear. You can go for a cheaper version that only does divx and mp3, but you won't be able to play everything. If you want to keep the solution as cheap as possible and don't mind putting a lot of work and cd's into it, you can also buy an ordinay one, but you will have to personally recode everything into vcd format. Since the surplus price of a cheap divx player isn't that much, I don't think it would be worth the trouble. I'd still try to recommed her the dvd-burner though, nothing quite as handy as that thing! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furious Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 What kinda DVD player do to watch torrents that i burned on my CD-R? My mum doesn't want to get us a dvd writer. Do ones who play CD-R work or do i need one that also play DivX You need one that can play divx/xvid and also ac3/mp3/wma. If it supports all these, you should be in the clear. You can go for a cheaper version that only does divx and mp3, but you won't be able to play everything. If you want to keep the solution as cheap as possible and don't mind putting a lot of work and cd's into it, you can also buy an ordinay one, but you will have to personally recode everything into vcd format. Since the surplus price of a cheap divx player isn't that much, I don't think it would be worth the trouble. I'd still try to recommed her the dvd-burner though, nothing quite as handy as that thing! ;) You mean one like this? http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=sr&page=title&r=ELEC&title=556443 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 You mean one like this? http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=sr&page=title&r=ELEC&title=556443 It seems to know all the tricks! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furious Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 You mean one like this? http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=sr&page=title&r=ELEC&title=556443 It seems to know all the tricks! ;) Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weareborg Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 This thread has helped me. I'm looking into buying a divx dvd player, which one is the best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patgaik Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Picked up a Phillips DVP642 at Walmart last night - on sale for $57.86!!! It's played everything I threw at it so far, including a region 3 disk (after I hacked it) and the only things I've had probs with are the one copy of MixxMasters's ROSE DVD (remote won't navigate the menus and sound is weird, until I change the setting - not a big issue for me cause I have all he eps & confidentials in xvid) and one of my discs with a few of the older Dr. Who files didn't seem to want to play. Otherwise I'm happy as a pig in ! What a perfect way this will be to watch the final ep of the season tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 This thread has helped me. I'm looking into buying a divx dvd player' date=' which one is the best?[/quote'] Best? From what I read there is a Yamaha that is absolutely fantastic. It supports DivX, XviD, WMA, AC3, MP3... in other words just about any AVI file out there. Unfortuantely, I think it's only available in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caldor Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 XBMC - it does upscaling of resolutions all the way to 1080. Lovely. Not to mention, Divx, xvid, wmv, mp3, wma, some mov - all goodness. Streaming from network attached storage and SMB loveliness. Consumer DVD players have no place in my home anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossup Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Doctor Who 040 The Enemy of the World - Patrick Troughton Divx 6 is ment to be divx 6 but all my players say its divx5, but if it is then it plays fine on the kiss DP-1500 dvd player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 If you guys really want to have the best-priced and best-performant DVD/DivX player out there, you need to buy a Sigmatek XM-400 Pro. They have excellent support, regular firmwareupdates, zonefree,.... I have one at home and it really is superb. Way better than that Philips-player and better support! It might be a little more expensive, but not that much. I don't know for sure if it's available in the US, but in Europe, it's no problem to order one. Some features: -DivX -XViD -3IVX -DivX fusion -AVI -AVI bivx (2 audio streams) -MP3 -WMA -AC3 -OGM -SVCD -VCD -DVD -SACD -HDCD -SRT, SUB, SUB/IDX, SMI, SSA subtitle support -DVD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/+R DL/-R DL -CD R/RW -regionfree -hardware DTS decoder -hardware Dolby Digital decoder Video D/A converter 108 MHz/12-bits Audio D/A converter 192 KHz/24-bits + A lot of other features, this baby is unbeatable in its price-class! The only thing that I know of that is not supported, is MKV (matroska) files. The image- and audio-quality is excellent because of the superb D/A converters. Here is the usergroup support page with more info about it! Pricing can be as low as € 85 if you search a little! As I said, a bit more expensive than the Philips, but way better and way better support! They have other very interesting products as well: Sigmatek. Don't be alarmed that this site is in French, the seperate produkt pages are also available in English! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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