Customer Reviews

Philips DVDQ35AT Progressive-Scan DVD Player

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I bought this to replace a Sony DVD player that died after 2 years. I haven't used the progressive scan features, but I'm using it with s-video and the optical sound out, and am very happy with the sound an picture. It also seems to handle dirty or scratched disks much better than the Sony, which used to just backwards or forwards some huge amount when it ran into trouble. The Philips seems to handle it pretty gracefully. One thing I really like about the Philips is that for the time display, it shows the total time you are through the movie (is the correct DVD term "title"?). My Sony would just show me how far I was into a chapter. I like that it can display CDs of photos and play MP3 CDs. The front panel is pretty bare bones, but has the basics you need. My nits with it are pretty minor: If you turn it off with the remote, you can't just wake it up by pressing open on the front panel -- you have to turn it off and one. There's no eject button on the remote (although you can debate if that's actually useful). And, it freezes up on a CD of pictures I burned from my Mac. I'm not sure how general that problem is. But, overall, I'm very happy with it.

This DVD looks nice, plays well, and sells for an unbeatable price. The thing that I like most about it is that it can play more DVDs (e.g. other region codes) than my Sony. My sony is very unforgiving in that respect. The only negative is that it takes the machine a bit long to load the DVD. But all in all, it's a great product.

The picture quality on this is as good as any other DVD player I have seen. I have had it for a year and have watched a lot of DVDs, and there was only one DVD it had a problem reading, and it was only because that DVD (a rental) had some deep scratches on it.

Philips is a brand name that years ago was known as setting the industries standards in the audio world! The performance of this DVD player suggests they merely found their way as most other mass produced "wanna be" electronic manufacturers and are concerned with profits only!
This DVD player played a couple discs fine and then the trouble began.............it progressively got worse; skipping; stopping and not working at all..............regardless what the disc was. Philips has a WONDERFUL exchange policy that can take 48 days. The most prolific thing this player produced when operating was FRUSTRATION!!! Only buy this if you enjoy taking a 10 pound sledge hammer to electronic components!!!!

Frankly all of us when spending on something look for the best value that money can buy, especially Electronics and Cars!! It is this space that Philips' DVD Q35 falls. It started out with a price tag around $200 but in the last months of 2003 it has been selling for about $80 (read Fry's). At this price it is one of the best DVD player that one can buy. First, it plays every format, except DVD-Audio, SACD. Second it can support both NTSC and PAL video formats (very very few players in US market have this feature). Third and most important, this player can be made region free to play DVDs from all over the world. Fourth but not the final, the Video and Audio quality is excellent almost at par with high end Denon, Onkyo systems. Has all sorts of connection possibilities. Don't even think twice. Just get it, you wont be disappointed.

Its worth paying. Its nice, plays MP3s, JPEG and all DVDs that I have tried. I have tried PAL VCDs as well.
The negative side - MP3 menu is too thin.
It does not play or hangs with some DVDs, the other player I have also does the same. Whereas my laptop DVD player plays that.

I purchased the Philips DVDQ35 from Amazon about a 2 months ago. It played photo CDs and regular CDs fine. The problems came when playing DVDs. On EVERY DVD I play, it starts skipping and freezing after about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours into the movie. This even includes brand new DVDs fresh from the box. I called Philips and the said it sounded like a hardware problem to them. They shipped me a brand new unit - new serial and manufacture date. Guess what ... the new unit does the same thing - exactly. I searched the internet for "Philips DVD player skipping" and have since found out that there are a lot of people that have been junking their Philips DVD players for exactly the same reason - skipping and freezing during DVD playback. It seems Philips will gladly keep sending you new units with the same problem (YOU have to pay for the shipping back to them), but won't refund money or give you a comparable model that works. I guess instead of repeatedly sending back the players, I'll have to eat the loss and junk this one. No more Philips for me.

For the price, this dvd, video, and audio player is great.
The DVD player looks better than it does on this site.
Playing audio cd's works fine.
I am not dissappointed with this DVD player at all!

this dvd is very good because it has good sound quality and it is very good and fast at reading things at fast speeds. And also has never ever frozen in on me

We bought this as a gift for my mom in another state. She was so excited to receive it and still can't believe that we didn't pay too much for it. She is not very technical, (not at all!)and had it hooked up within 15 minutes and has talked about it ever since. Great deal, great product.