Any good Divx DVD Players?

[t3hmuffinman]

I'm looking to get a Divx DVD player, and i've seen the Philips DVP642, but there seem to be tons of people who have had it die in 6-10 months. All the other ones i've seen are no names going for 40 bucks. Anyone have any recommendations (whether they've had a philips for a long time, or a "no name" for a long time)?

TIA

 

[Pepsi90919]

whenever i think of Divx DVD players i think of the old rental system.

 

[batmanuel]

The Phillips one is the only model I've seen in stores. Newegg has a Yamaha unit for $149. That one probably will be decent quality, but I haven't seen any reviews.

 

[Ketteringo]

I've had my Phillips for 15 months now of heavy usage (~2 movies a week) and I've never had any problems

 

[ZOOYUKA]

These will play strait avi files right?

 

[Kelemvor]

How do they work exactly? Can you just take a bunch of random DivX encoded filse and just dump them onto a DVD and then stick it in the player and it will just read them? Or do you have ot encode them special like when you make an actual DVD? I have tons of DivX type files that I wanted to be able to play but when I re-encode them for DVD they always look like crap.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Bump for more info on the Philips DVD player. Got one coming in 2 days, can't wait

 

[nakedfrog]

I was going to suggest the Philips
I've heavily considered buying one of them.

 

[Sphexi]

Just got the Philips myself, works great. Haven't had it refuse a movie yet, maybe I just haven't been trying hard enough.

Had a couple of those cheap $30 specials before, they died within 2 years or so, I figure they lasted their useful lifetime so whatever. The Philips is great, I don't have to spend time encoding them into DVDs, I just burn DIVX files as data on a DVD disc and it reads them. Annoying not to have pretty menus and whatnot, but I could really care less

 

[bigrash]

I bought the phillips when it first came out and so far its a great player. plays everything i throw at it

 

[AnyMal]

Here

 

[Kelemvor]

8.1 rating at videohelp
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php...chipset=&country=&orderby=Name&hits=25

Just make sure you get the warranty on it since some people have said it dies. I prefer Sears' warranty because it's a Replacement warranty so they just flat out give you a new player if it breaks. BestBuy and such will send it off for service and try to fix it for you but you still end up with a working player or a new one if they break it. heh.

$56.99 at Best Buy

$59.99 at CircuitCity

$69.99 at Newegg

$59.99 at CompUSA

 

[0roo0roo]

netflix pwns

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
How do they work exactly? Can you just take a bunch of random DivX encoded filse and just dump them onto a DVD and then stick it in the player and it will just read them? Or do you have ot encode them special like when you make an actual DVD? I have tons of DivX type files that I wanted to be able to play but when I re-encode them for DVD they always look like crap.

You'll see a menu with all the AVI files when the CD/DVD is loaded. However, the Phillips player has a problem playing Divx/Xvid files with advanced encoding techniques like Qpel, etc.

 

[samgau]

Originally posted by: Ketteringo
I've had my Phillips for 15 months now of heavy usage (~2 movies a week) and I've never had any problems

Yup, I've had mine for about a year... maybe a little more... seems a pretty solid performer... And I've thrown a bit of everything at it, avi, dvd data on a cd, mp3, tons of regular dvds... non region 1 dvds, and pal dvds...

 

[samgau]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
How do they work exactly? Can you just take a bunch of random DivX encoded filse and just dump them onto a DVD and then stick it in the player and it will just read them? Or do you have ot encode them special like when you make an actual DVD? I have tons of DivX type files that I wanted to be able to play but when I re-encode them for DVD they always look like crap.

nope... the phillips will give you an explorer like screen and you can browse the disc and play any files on it... pretty nifty... and I hear there was a firmware upgrade to support the newwer divx codec...

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: samgau

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
How do they work exactly? Can you just take a bunch of random DivX encoded filse and just dump them onto a DVD and then stick it in the player and it will just read them? Or do you have ot encode them special like when you make an actual DVD? I have tons of DivX type files that I wanted to be able to play but when I re-encode them for DVD they always look like crap.

nope... the phillips will give you an explorer like screen and you can browse the disc and play any files on it... pretty nifty... and I hear there was a firmware upgrade to support the newwer divx codec...

really...how do i upgrade the firmware on this thing

 

[Kelemvor]

You can join the dvp642 group over at Yahoo Groups. Looks like people hav hacked firmwares available and all kinds of things. Philips website sucks and I couldn't find any official firmware links there.

 

[rh71]

if you have an xbox you can have someone mod it for < $75. It will play every file format under the sun. Best money I ever spent.

 

[Kelemvor]

No idea what this is but it's on the CompUSA ad from today.

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=319618&pfp=srch1

Us Logic brand DVD Player that says it's a DivX player...

 

[mercanucaribe]

Do those play xVid files?

 

[Kelemvor]

Update, now only $53.99 at Best Buy. Must be on sale this week:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcat17005&type=page&_requestid=80518

Even if you add the 4 yr warranty for $40.. You get a DVD player that's guaranteed to work for 4 years for under $100. Sounds like a good deal to me.