Philips DVD726 Progressive-Scan DVD Player

by Philips

Product Details

Product Manual [1.78mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000093US2
• Item model number: DVD726
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,618 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Philips's slim, affordable DVD726 features high-end progressive-scan component-video outputs and built-in decoding for MP3 music files, as well as JPEG image CD playback so you can enjoy digital slideshows right in the living room. It also is compatible with PAL- and NTSC-formatted discs (so long that your TV is PAL or NTSC compatible). The DVD726's Smart Picture feature offers five preset picture settings: multimedia, rich, natural, soft, and personal, which let you tailor the image you see to the type of program your watching.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVD726 stands ready to deliver the full potential of DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

The DVD726 also performs 3:2 pulldown. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

The player will play JPEG images one by one automatically, letting you zoom in, rotate, or flip the picture vertically or horizontally. For MP3 playback, the player offers track time display, album and track selection, and repeat (disc/album/track). It supports nested directory levels up to eight levels, as well as a total of 32 albums and 500 different tracks.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's coaxial digital-audio output for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver.

Playback options include five-disc resume and bookmarking, which lets you pick-up where you left off on your five most recently viewed DVDs (not applicable for MP3 or JPEG CDs), enhanced parental control (with 80-disc lockout), and picture zoom for magnification of select images.

What's in the Box
DVD-Video player, zappa remote control with batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect, composite-video cable.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good player!, August 24, 2003

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ijrr "Igor" (New York, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips DVD726 Progressive-Scan DVD Player (Electronics)

Very nice player... and, the best thing: Has a hack to play all DVD's regions! Just turn it on, open the tray, press 9 9 9 9 0 and you will se "Region Code 0"... That's enough! You will be able to play dvd's from all regions!!!
The only bad thing is that it doesn't have optical output... if it's not necessary for you, buy this!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent DVD Player!!, November 14, 2003

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A Review "dba Joker" (Gotham City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips DVD726 Progressive-Scan DVD Player (Electronics)

WOW!! What a great DVD player! I just bought this ... and hooked it up to my TV and stereo today. The picture is excellent and the sound is First-Class!
I own a JVC 3 disc DVD player that couldn't play my CD-R music and I needed a player that would. This DVD player plays ANYTHING I put in it! It even has a NTSC/PAL decoding capability so I can play European formats and don't have to be careful when buying some of the rare DVD's only available in other countries!
I love my JVC DVD player for it's video and sound reproduction, but I love this Philips player even more!!!
Anybody out there looking for a used JVC 3 disc player??

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Regions 1 and 2 since Jan '04, April 22, 2006

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A Pohick (near Crystal City) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Philips DVD726 Progressive-Scan DVD Player (Electronics)

The DVD 726 has performed adequately as a region free player since January '04. One caveat--it has only had to play regions 1 and 2, both PAL and NTSC.

Out of hundreds, the only DVD that the 726 has so far balked at is Trancers 6 (a region 1!). Since Full Moon has got a warehouse full of VHS tapes to unload before they burn the Trancers series on DVD, the glitch with playing their discs is only a minor problem.