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Philips DVDQ50 Slimline Design Progressive Scan DVD Player
 
 

Philips DVDQ50 Slimline Design Progressive Scan DVD Player

by Philips
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)


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Product Specifications
Brand Name:Philips

Technical Details

  • Playback ability for DVD-Video, Video CD, CD-Audio, and CD-R/RW media
  • Additionally compatible with MP3-CD discs
  • 5-Disc Resume feature allows viewers to pick up where they left on recently started DVD titles
  • Integrated Dolby Digital and DTS processing, with 6 channel analog output
  • Also features optical and Coaxial audio outputs, for optional external decoding solutions
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Product Details

Product Manual [1.81mb PDF]
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.1 x 3.7 inches ; 10.5 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
  • Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
  • ASIN: B00005UKB7
  • Item model number: DVDQ50
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #402,823 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Just when you thought your video images couldn't get any clearer along comes a new kind of DVD player. With special Faroudja circuitry in the Progressive Scan, you receive an even better picture on Digital TV than regular Progressive Scan can provide! Along with its many supported formats including MP3, this player also plays Region 1 discs in NTSC and PAL signals creating more video compatibility. Also, the built in DTS decoder produces amazing home theater sound quality for your enjoyment.

 

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to believe how good the picture is., November 3, 2002
This review is from: Philips DVDQ50 Slimline Design Progressive Scan DVD Player (Electronics)
I just hooked this puppy up to my Sony KV-34 XBR800 1080i tude HDTV using progressive component.

Wow.

It's very hard to tell that this is not a 1080i input. I mean this thing is crisp!

Why pay the 2x the cost of say a Sony 715? That's easy: Farouda (sic?) line doubling is -way- better than Sony, and I'm a big fan of Sony.

However after spending an afternoon of plugging every DVD player that "Good Guys" had (~20) into the -same- TV, it was easy to see that the Phillips was the best.

An easy way to make the conclusion that Phillips is better: Phillips is the only manufacturer that goes to the trouble of making a -technical- demo DVD to show why their picture is best. I used it in Sony, JVC, Technics, Panasonic, etc. Makes it very easy to see what you are getting...

Like all the other retail stores, they plug the good DVD players into good TV's and lame ones into lame TV's and then try to trick you into spending as much as you can. Often they even have the same model of TV adjusted for lame color, etc. DO yourself a big favor and make sure they plug the DVD players into the same set...

It really is much better than the cheaper units in the pack of ... products, and even better IMHO than almost all of the >... players. Time for Sony to get a clue...

-jj

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Style Over Substance (and quality), February 14, 2003
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Dana (Santa Rosa, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Philips DVDQ50 Slimline Design Progressive Scan DVD Player (Electronics)
The picture quality is good except during fast panning even in progressive scan. A fast pan creates a slight stutter in the image which some may not notice but its there. A much worse problem is the DVD drives well know "glitches" when playing dual layered DVDs. Layer changes are slow skip frames. The worse problem is that the drive will occasionally just stutter during a DVD when there is no layer change at all. These problems are known by the tech savvy on the web (just do a search) and plague many of the Q50 in US and abroad. I returned my first one and got a replacement. It was better but not 100%. I then found a firmware upgrade which also seemed to help a bit. The bottom line is that this drive is not worth the hassles at any price.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, September 23, 2004
This review is from: Philips DVDQ50 Slimline Design Progressive Scan DVD Player (Electronics)
I have owned this player for 3 months now. The picture and sound quality are excellent. However, my player does skip frames very slowly during layer changes, and sometimes does this just ramdomly as well.
It's an unfortunate problem, but at least it's a very good player other than that.
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