Philips Portable DVD Player PET-805

by Philips

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BCZ8WM
• Item model number: PET805/37
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,552 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 11, 2005

Product Description

At home, in your car, or on your lap, this pet entertains all the time. Call it a pet or a personal entertainment center, the PET-805 from Philips is a portable DVD player designed to enhance your lifestyle and life. Includes AC Home Adapter, DC adapter for car use, remote control, dual headphone jacks and rechargeable battery Unit Size - 7.72 x 6.44 x 1.2 inches / Unit Weight 2.6 lbs

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quality PET-805, December 11, 2005

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J. W. Cooksey (Saudi Arabia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips Portable DVD Player PET-805 (Electronics)

I have the "multi-region" version PET800(instructions below may enable multi-region for PET805). This is a sound, robust player and gives the appearance and feel of high quality. I loved the brushed metal finish almost too nice to throw in a backpack. The screen is of a good resolution and can be viewed from the sides with no difficulty. Obviously Philips could not swallow their pride to say they openly support the DVD-R format, however this little gem plays DVD-Rs with ease.

I have used this player with DVDs from USA, UK, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines. Originals and good quality backups work flawlessly. Poor quality media will cause a break up of the picture, jumping of scenes and possibly no playback(true of any DVD player). However if recopied to a reliable media it works without any problem.

TV output seems to be selected only when the TV/TFT selection switch is selected to TV, this means you select the TV system type on the TV screen, not on the TFT display. This can be a little difficult if the TV screen is revolving and an element of guesswork will be necessary to press the right sequence of setup and arrow keys until you have the correct system selected. Whatever, it works with PAL, AUTO and NTSC just fine.
It's a little clunky when loading up and selecting chapters, but when viewing a movie there is barely a whisper.

Audio is tinny but I would not expect anything else on these little players; the volume was more than adequate and the headphones (there are two outputs) were a different world and a very enjoyable experience.

It displays jpg images, so I tried a standard data CD with a library of home pictures. It displayed the directories and allowed me to select images, even performing a slide show. The screen was not really suitable to display the high resolution of the images and obviously the quality of images would be improved if connected to a TV.

A soft case to protect the unit would have been nice.Well you can't have everything!

To access the Region Coding menu. THIS WORKS also for the PET800, PET810, PET1000:

1. Power on your PET
2. Lift up the screen and open the DVD "platter" cover
Use the Remote Control to:
3. Press "Setup"
4. Navigate to the "Preferences" page
5. Press the OK" button
6. Key in the following numbers 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 5
7. Press the left arrow
8. Press the down arrow
9. When the region code is displayed, press "0" (all regions playback).
10.Press "Setup" again to exit.

As it stands, the Philips PET-805 is a well recommended unit. The activation of all-region coding (see above) for international travellers most definately expands it's usefulness.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OK DVD player with some negatives to be aware of:, March 7, 2006

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Mediahound (SF Bay Area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips Portable DVD Player PET-805 (Electronics)

This is a good portable DVD player for the mony, but it does have some negative points that you should be aware of. It has good build quality that seems quite sturdy, unlike a lot of other portable DVD players out there. The video and audio quality is excellent. It plays all kinds of DVDs (including ones from other countries if you use the multi region code as described in other reviews).

The only reason I'm not giving it a great rating is because there are some real negatives:

-No AV inputs. You cannot connect your digital camera to display your photos, nor can you connect a video game system to this DVD player. Most all other brands do have this functionality, so Phillips needs to get with it.

-I wish the battery didn't protrude out the back of the unit (it should be under the player instead).

-No resume function. You will lose your place if you stop a DVD movie while watching it and turn the player off.

-Very loud spinning noise. This player is annoying loud when spinning the DVD.

This Phillips seems like a solid player that will last beyond what you would expect for the price, but you should be aware of the negatives. If you cannot get beyond these negatives, I would recommend going with a Toshiba which has all the features the Phillips is lacking, although is probably not quite as good in terms of display and build quality.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Seems as good as I thought it would be., March 1, 2006

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Aleksandr Umanskiy "AlexUm" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips Portable DVD Player PET-805 (Electronics)

This player is very convenient for trips.

Pros of the Philips PET805:
1. Activation of all-region coding is easy (See J. W. Cooksey's review).
2. It plays DivX files but with some trick. For some reason the player does not like "AVI" extension. Just rename it to "MPG" and it works just fine.
3. It works with home made DVD+R and DVD-R.

Cons of the Philips PET805:
1. Loud spin-up noise.
2. The lack of "Resume" function.

Philips PET-805 is a well recommended unit.