Philips DVD Player

by Philips

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• Item Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005U221
• Item model number: DVD714
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #448,615 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Take the way you watch movies and enhance it completely. This DVD player has the capability of playing a variety of different formats such as DVD, MP3, SVCD, Video and Audio CD, and more. It has all of the general functionality's you need, as well as inputs and outputs to let you get the most from your movies. Parental controls make it safe for your kids to watch while you're not at home, and nine marker positions let you return to your favorite scenes as often as you like.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars no particular problems, June 19, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Philips DVD Player (Electronics)

VERRRY slow to recognize whether you've fed it a DVD, CD, or MP3 disc. When I got this, I had planed to toss my 12-year old JVC audio CD player to save space, but this unit loads so slowly that I kept the JVC out and hooked up, and still use it in preference to this unit for audio CD's. However, picture and sound quality are excellent, unit is about 2 years old and going strong.
The MP3 disc capacility has not been all I'd hoped, even though I really selected this unit for this feature. The video display of filenames only shows the first 14 characters of the file, which is really not sufficient for the way I do my filenames ("1969-02-27 b06 The Eleven (Part 1).mp3"). MP3 also has a technical problem with playing continuous tracks, like live music, a lot of what I listen to, so I use OGG Vorbis which is non-commercial, duty-free, and much better at handling continuous tracks. (WMA is also better than MP3 on that score, if you enjoy DRM.) But in fact, the unit won't play MP3 tracks continuously anyway. These problems combined with the slow loading, and I've hardly used the MP3 feature. If somebody would get this feature right, I should think it would go over big, because you can easily put 8-10 hours of music on a single disc!