Customer Reviews

Philips DVP5992 1080p HDMI Upscaling DVD Player with USB 2.0 and DivX Ultra

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3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

Just bought 3 of these 5992/37. There is an easy hack found on the internet to upgrade to play all regions dvd's.

Philips DVP 5992
Region Free:

press Setup
select the Preference Tab
Press 1,3,8,9,3,1
Press up/down key to select "0"
and hit menu to exit.

Prior to this I had a 5982/37 which had 1.1 usb and I had some trouble with avi's at high bitrate through the USB 1.1 port but the 2.0 on the 5992 fixed that. Both players play divx (avi) files but the major upgrades to the 5992 are USB 2.0, plays wmv files, now has 14 characters for files on hard drive or memory stick, you can rip music from cd to hard drive in mp format, you can play vob through the usb. The remote is much improved over the 5982 as well. In summary this is a great deal if you need a player that does a good job upconverting to 1080p, supports divx (avi), wmv and has usb 2.0 for connecting a hard drive or memory stick (must be fat 32 - for drives over 32 gb there are several utilities for doing this such as awissknife or fat32.exe - I have a 1 TB WD connected to mine). Also, to sort the fat32 files alphabetically by name there is a freeware FolderSort.exe which you can download to keep your folders and files alphabetically when you play the HD through the USB. The DVD player reads the folders/files in order they were loaded so for convenience you can sort them yourself with FolderSort. Bought mine for $39.99.

There are additional firmware upghrades by a developer Vb6rocod which makes some great changes to the setup options and screens. For example itlets you see file characters much longer than the standard Philips release (at first it was 40 characters from a cd/dvd then upgraded furtherto the length of the bar on the scree; the files through the usb are limited to either 21 or 23 which is a nice improvement), adds font choices to subtitels, colors to subtitles and some other fixes. You can download through rapidshare. See links at http://ryan.com.br/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=1074;sa=showPosts OR http://www.forodvp5100.com.ar/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=1458&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=60 OR http://forum.videohelp.com/topic355675.html#1881495. Many users like these improvements. I tried the firmware upgrade and it is very nice.

First, Amazon & VNCDirect: another item that arrived earlier than expected. Super service.

Philips, what can I say? It plays VCD's KvCD's, Divx etc. (for those that don't know, u can take an .avi file, burn it as data and watch it on here. I don't know if that works for other types of media files tho. Burning as data is very fast.) I live by Philips for being one of the few DVD players that can handle probably any type of disc thrown at it. I have a DVD movie that I brought and after some months it stuttered on my Go Video, then locked it up. Philips handled it like a dream. Even if it was scratched or the Go Video needed cleaning, I didn't have to find out using Philips. I just found out part of my answer: I put in a scratched CD just now and no stutters.

Remote has an eject button on the remote, can also use the button to close the disc drawer. (yea I'm lazy at times) It has volume control. Don't really know what its for yet, but its there. If connecting by HDMI and/or to a HDTV, make sure u go into the picture setup page of the DVD player & the screen size settings of your TV and do trial n error to get the best picture. Just selecting 720p, 1080i/p in the DVD settings doesn't necessarily mean you get the best picture. U can create .mp3s from CD's. You can set the bitrate (192kbps shoulda been the default tho, not 128kbps,) and some other things that I thought I could only do on my PC. Nice.

One added feature thats a plus for some of you on the net: it has a lip sync feature. What it does: you can adjust the audio speed in movies & videos that are out of sync. So for those movies where the audio doesnt match the video, u can fix it. Something else I thought I could only do on my PC. Nice!!!

I bought this Phillips DVP5992/37 upconvert DVD player from Amazon 3 days ago after reading all those great reviews but now I am disappointed.
It's a good DVD player to upcovert DVDs to 1080P when it works, however, the player is having frequent troubles reading VCDs and DVDs. It may successfully read and play once in while and next time it may get stuck on "Loading". Once this happens, both the remote control and the player's control buttons will completely cease to function. You can neither open the disc tray nor power it off. The only way to wake it up is by unplugging and then plugging back the power cord, and wait for several minutes. I have already upgraded the firmware to version 31 and removed region restriction but in vain.
Another disappointment is that it plays MP3 files but can't play avi video taken with my Canon digital camera. I copied the videos onto a USB flash drive but this DVD player can't support the video codec and only plays the sound tracks of the videos.
I am returning it for an exchange or refund.
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After I returned the above unit. I found and bought one at Costco to try again. This new unit is loaded with the most updated v.31 firmware and it has been working properly for a week. I also found a way on my PC to use NTI CD & DVD-Maker 7 software to convert my camera's avi video to mpeg2 or mpeg4 format which can be played by the DVP5992 directly on my HDTV.
The only minor complaint is that this player is a bit slow to respond to the remote control, otherwise, it's a great upconvert player. I think I should raise this item to 4 stars.

I have purchased a few DVD players by other manufactures that claim they can play all DivX files but this one by Philips is the best. I can't believe I am the first to review this product because it works like a charm. The USB input on the front of the player will accept a flash drive or an external hard drive as long as its formatted in fat32 if its over 32Gig in size. I am here to purchase another one, so I gotta go.

I've been a fan of Philips DVD players for a while. This is their best player yet as they have finally worked out how to make a good remote control : very unlike their previous models which came with hideous chunks of plastic, this comes with a black remote that is slim, attractive and has an eject button. No more holding down "stop" just to kick out a DVD.

It's easily made region-free: just eject the disc, hit "Setup", go to the "Preferences" tab, type 138931, then use up and down to set the region popup menu to 0, hit "OK". It takes less than a minute, and then it's region-free forever.

This player gives great picture quality on an HDTV, even more so with PAL DVDs from England. With lesser US players that don't scale up to HD the picture gets scaled down to 640x480 then scaled up to HD by the TV. This player scales straight from PAL's 768x576 up to HD resolution with no data loss and the results are great.

The DivX playback from USB looks great.

Unlike the previous model (the DVP5990), this player lets you turn off the annoying "Auto Standby" feature that makes it turn itself off if you pause and wander away for a while. The option is right there on the first tab of prefs.

I held off writing a review on this to test its durability, since several people have complained. With that said, this product has worked wonderfully, not a single problem yet, and I have had it for about 7 months. Because I do not have cable, this player is used every single day to play both DVD's as well as off of an external hard drive. I have not yet found a format which is not supported, or one that gives any problems. I back up all of my DVD's onto a 1.5TB external HD, and it works perfectly. HD's do need to be formatted with FAT32 to work, but that is it. Between my kids, wife, and myself it is used atleast 6 hours a day (more on weekends) between video and music as I also use it to play music off of the HD in place of the radio (which is boring here). I know some reviewers mentioned durability issues, but the only thing I have witnessed is that when it is turned off it will freeze and display 'standby'. This has happened only 2 times that I know of, and simply unplugging it fixes the problem. The player had soda spilled on it the first week, which never cause a single issue either. Hands down the best DVD player I have ever owned.

Great upconverting DVD player and support AVI, MPG and WMV not to mention music and pictures files.

This player has multiple disks memory. When you eject your DVD, it still remembers the last position at least up to 2 disks (not fully tested how many disk it remember). My pioneer dv-400vk and Sony Sony DVP-NS710H/B both remember up to 5 disks. Some player will lose the position after power off the player ( like Toshiba XDE500 is one of them).

When you purchase this DVP5992 make sure the model is DVP5992/F7, not DVP5992/37. Both models look almost the same but the major different is F7 support mpg and wmv, 37 only support avi.

This player is come with region 1 but easy to hack and work likes a charm.

How to hack:
Open tray (keep it open during hack)
Press 'Setup' button once
Press right arrow until 'Preference' page shows up (Tray must be open to enable this page)
press 138931
Press up arrow until 'region' 0
Press 'OK' button

Verify procedure:
Open tray
Press 'Setup' button once
In 'General' page, press 1379
Firmware screen shows up displaying firmware version and region code in the bottom
Press 'OK' to exit

This player can be a 5 stars rating but I only give it 4 stars with the following reason:
- The fast forward and skip share the same key. It take a while the get used to how to use the key.
- When playing video files, I press the display key; it does not show the file name or title. It only shows how much time has left (My pioneer dv-400vk shows both).
- While playing Video file, I press menu, it won't return to the main menu, the only way to get back to the main menu is power off and start all over. (No problem when play DVD movie).

If you looking for player that does Upconverting, support multiple video files format and low cost buy it.

The Philips DVP5992/37 works exactly as it is intended to work. Not a feature more, not a feature less. Overall it works as described in the product listing.

Pros: Lightweight unit, 1080p Upscaling Resolution with absolutely NO ghosting effects of image. Region free DVD playback with the use of a simple code found on the internet. USB 2.0 front port. HDMI jack on the rear. Low power consumption. Quiet DVD drive. Unit runs cool without needing loud fans to keep the internal temp in check.

Cons: The on-screen menu leaves something more to desire. The file browser is alil cheaply programmed. Inital start-up time from standby is 10 seconds. The remote doesn't quiet offer too many buttons, but is a upgrade over the Philips DVP5982 remote. No television tuner.

Bottom Line: Full NTSC/ATSC Television support. 1080P upscale display resolution of DVDs??? Sweet!!! Good cheap fun all for less than $100 including a HDMI cable in that cost!

Thank you Philips & Amazon for this product.

Overall Rating: 5/5 Stars

One month after buying in Costco for [...] the HDMI output went bad giving inverted colors. Green was red, yellow was blue, black and white were greys and so on. Like another poster with the same problem said "tie dyed" I give it a good star rating because they're probably isolated incidences. This is the third Philips HDMI divx player I've bought, the other two older models DVP3960 and DVP3980 still work great for over a year. I upgraded to this 5992 for the USB 2.0 and the WMV support. I'll try an exchange before I bash it.

Purchased the Philips DVP5992 refurbished, seems that the unit I received was not checked out adequately and I am stuck with a bad unit.

I did not even get to use the player a half a dozen times which is why I am writing my review which I have never done before. Called the merchant who I purchased the unit, was told to contact Philips. Emailed Philips, they sent me out a quick start guide email which is the same copy sent to me in the box with the unit. Followed the instructions once again and it seemed to work. Next time around, forget it, same issues and the DVD player was not recognizing the disk. Of course, at that point, I was out of the 90 day warranty period. Called Philips this time around, got a nice guy on the phone telling me to unplug the unit and re-plug it for resetting purposes, trying a CD rather than a DVD and also trying a new power outlet. Nothing worked and experienced the same issues as before.

Requested to speak to a supervisor, dude was not as nice as the previous guy and quiet frankly did not care other than to explain the warranty to me once again as the previous representative did - like I did not hear it the first time around! He asked me for some sort of code from the previous contact, which of course I did not have. Let him know that I did not even get some sort of code this time around - but who writes those numbers down anyways.

Bottom line, someone at Philips did not check off all of their little boxes and I have a player that I will be throwing in the trash - not going to buy another Philips DVD player this time around! Guaranteed!


poor Philips customer service, bad Philips customer service