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5 Reviews for Philips DVP5100/05 Multi Region Capable DivX DVD Player

The best there is for the price - 28 Oct 2006

4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

I have had this DVD player for close to a year now and even to this day I have yet to find a better DivX/Xvid player.

A lot of people complain about the loader and yes there is some problems but none that will break the player. The only thing with it is sometimes you wate a extra 10 seconds (WOW) loading it in.... and most loaders you have to wait for it to come out then it gets jammed so really there is no problem. But what is a extra 10secs?!?

the player will play everything I have tried and the xvids/divx is encoded right play just like a DVD does. ALso Philips have updates sometimes that keep your DVD player always up-to-date.

The only thing I would ask for is more updates as some more audio support for xvids would be great as some have newer formats which will be used more.

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bit of a let down - 16 Oct 2006

2 out of 6 found this review helpful.

Reasons that make me dislike this player;

1. Remote is horrible. Designed big, fat and chunky. No-one designs remotes this poorly anymore.
2. Slot loading mechanism is shockingly loud. It doesnt blow out my windows or anything, but it shouldnt be as loud as it is.
3. No eject button on the remote. As this is a slot loader you dont want to be leaving dvds in this after watching - what would it have cost Philips to put an extra eject button on the remote so i can eject then walk over and pick out the dvd which has popped out during my travel?

Other than that its a fine machine and does all it said it would. No hassles with regions or divx, plays all fine.

The disc mechanism spoils the show - 28 Jul 2006

15 out of 19 found this review helpful.

I have several Philips DVD players, and the DVP5100 is the worst of the lot. The reason is the terrible slot-loading mechanism. It's slow, WAY slower than its tray-loading brothers, and it sometimes just does not work. It gets confused about whether there is a disc in the machine or not, and right now I think there are two discs jammed inside my player. I'm going to have to take a screwdriver to it to get them out.

I don't think this is just a fault with my player, it just seems a very poor design decision. I'd also like to back up other reviewers' comments about scratched discs. A slot loader grabs the discs in ways that tray-loaders do not, and it leaves an impression on the disc.

I'll buy another Philips, but never another slot-loader.

Excellent player - 27 Jul 2006

7 out of 9 found this review helpful.

This really is one of the best home DVD players out there right now. Unlike most 'DIVX' players currently being sold, it actually supports the full DIVX standard, including QPEL and GMC. This means respectively sharper images, and better compression. The deblocking filters are excellent, cleaning up even the poorest DIVX encodes. The only downsides are the fact that packed bit stream audio does not sync properly, and no MP4 audio (AAC - as used on IPOD) playback. If Philips could only address those two issues with a firmware update (hint), this would be the perfect player.

Description of features is incorrect - 05 Jul 2006

43 out of 48 found this review helpful.

That is now the second time, that the description on the Amazon website does not match the product features.
It says "Multi Region Capable DivX DVD Player", which means, if my understanding of English is correct, that the player is capable to play discs from all regions. The truth is, that the player can play discs labelled with region "2" or region "All" only. It can't play discs of regions "1", "3", and all other regions (well, actually it can, but only using an informal region code hack provided by a friendly customer).
This information can be found in the manual, but it should be found on the website stating region "2" and region "All" discs only.