Product Description: Philips DVP5140 Progressive Scan DVD Player, can play CD-R/W, DivX, DVD, DVD+R/W, DVD-R/W DVD-Video, MP3, MPEG4, Picture CDs, VCD, and SVCD. That's right, all of this in one small package for an incredibly reasonable price. All while delivering quality picture and audio performance. Component video output lets you connect this DVD player to your high-end home television set to optimize viewing quality.
From the Manufacturer: 192KHz sampling enables you to have an accurate representation of the original sound curves. Together with a 24-bit resolution, more information is captured from the original analogue sound wave form, giving a much richer audio reproduction.
Multi-format playability allows you to play most disc formats for maximum disc compatibility and listening pleasure.
12-bit Video DAC is a superior Digital-to-Analogue-Converter that preserves every detail of the authentic picture quality. It shows subtle shades and smoother graduation of colors, resulting in a more vibrant and natural picture. The limitation of the usual 10bit DAC become in particular apparent while using large screens and projectors.
The attractive enclosure has a very low profile.
DivX Ultra combines DivX playback with great features like integrated subtitles, multiple audio languages, multiple tracks and menus into one convenient file format.
Multi-format playability allows you to play most disc formats for maximum disc compatibility and viewing pleasure.
Picture CD is a CD-R or CD-RW disc on which you can store your MP3 and digital pictures. When inserting a Picture CD in the DVD player, a screen menu will pop up, showing your JPEG's and/or MP3 files on the disc. Just select the music and pictures files you wish to enjoy and press play or OK. You can watch your pictures on TV with your music playing simultaneously.
Progressive Scan doubles the vertical resolution of the image resulting in a noticeably sharper picture. Instead of sending a field comprising the odd lines to the screen first, followed by the field with the even lines, both fields are written at one time. A full image is created instantaneously, using the maximum resolution. At such a speed, your eye perceives a sharper picture with no line structure.
12-bit/ 108Mhz video DAC for sharp image with natural colors.
Ultra-slim design.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Doesn't support GMC coded .avi
Just bought this and first .avi cd I played received a message: doesn't support GMC files. Looked that up and is .avi that is coded with General Motion Compensation.
If there is a way around this, I'd like to know because I'm very disappointed.
Rating: - Works fine but nothing special
This DVD player serves its purpose but wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for something with quick response.
Rating: - Excellent Value for Money
I purchase the regular Philips DVP5140 DVD player from Amazon and successfuly configured it to a region-free DVD player. It played all my DVD from USA, UK, New Zealand, and Asia without any problem. I think it is an excellent choice.
However, I am a bit surprised to find that the remote is very primitive, e.g., it does not have an Open/Close button, the standard Fast Forward, Fast reverse buttons are missing too (right and left arrow buttons does the job). I am unable to assign five stars to this product because of the deficiencies in the remote design. Otherwise it is an excellent ... Read More
Rating: - Poor design and build quality
the only reason to consider this player is the fact that you can program it to play mutiregion DVDs with a minimum of fuss. apart from that, it's a shoddy product. the build is flaky - the buttons are absurdly small and cheap-feeling. and the remote - don't get me started; it is so poorly designed that you practically have to be standing right in front of the unit at close range to use it (the remote's infrared transmitter is so recessed on the underside of the remote that there is an extremely limited set of angles at which it can work). this effectively defeats the point of having a remote. did ... Read More
Rating: - Region 2 delivers disappointing results
I was looking for a DVD player that would play PAL video and region 2 DVD. This player was billed as the solution. While it does play PAL video (which, by the way, requires a PAL-compatible TV), it balks when it comes time to play a region 2 DVD. All I get is a "region error" message. So...I still have to rip and burn my region 2 discs as "region free" before they'll play, though the good news is that I don't have to lose any resolution (or a considerable block of time) from NTSC conversions.
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