Philips DVP5982

Pros: Reliability. Overall ease of use. Stylishness. Compatibility with various media that other units can't play.

Cons: Unlike the console, remote lacks dedicated "open/close" key. (Must hold down "STOP".)

The Bottom Line: At $59.49 this reliably media-compliant Philips single-DVD player beats its competition hands-down.

Review: Prefatory note #1: You can find great deals on this DVD player via various vendors. For example, as of this writing, Bestbuy.com has this model "on sale" for only $59.49 (you must "temporarily place the item in your shopping cart" to see its ...

Pros: DivX support, USB port, great styling, overall good performance.

Cons: Somewhat slow USB port, "cheap" remote.

The Bottom Line: A great value for video enthusiasts, no comparably priced player has as good a feature set as the Philips 5982.

Review: The Philips DVP5982 DVD Player is the top model in Philips popular line of feature rich, inexpensive DVD players. Some of the features that make the $70 (street) Philips 5982 attractive include: -USB input, displays images and plays ...

Pros: Price, 1080p over HDMI, features, PAL playback and conversion to NTSC, computer video playback, USB

Cons: Poor remote, cheap LCD display, not easy to use, stutters on some DivX files

The Bottom Line: If you need to play PAL discs on an NTSC TV, play computer files and DivX, play media files from a USB drive and have a 1080p display, the DVP5982...

Review: I have had the original king of DivX, a.k.a. Philips DVP642 for a while and considering its impressive feature list (including PAL playback on NTSC TV, DivX playback and progressive scan), I was relatively happy with ...

Pros: Very affordable very versatile upscaling DVD player.

Cons: No optical out, no single frame fast forward or reverse, chintzy remote.

The Bottom Line: If you are looking for a cheap upscaling DVD player or a DVD player that plays all the homemade formats, this will do the trick!

Review: I am not ready yet to make the jump to Blu - Ray or HD-DVD. I've taken home and tried each of these players, and decided to wait some more to see who wins the war. I don't even have a 1080P HDTV yet, so I really wouldn't get the full benefit of either ...

Pros: Very affordable very versatile upscaling DVD player.

Cons: No optical out, Poor remote

The Bottom Line: The best player for your buck.

Review: I was given this item recently without my wanting of it. Although initially I was skeptical of actually enjoying the product I soon was found using it quite often. As I became learned in this technology I started to develop a higher knowledge than I had ...

Pros: crisp sharp picture slim nice looking unit

Cons: for 70 bucks ? I don't think so .

Review: Very e z set up . Makes old dvd s look great by converting to 1080p . I couldn't decide between blue ray and hd dvd so I decided to go low price with 1080p up and the reviews on this all said it was great and it is . This is so good that the new ...

Pros: USB access on front panel, simple to operate

Cons: Average DVD quality, Unreliable DivX, Firmware upgrade makes it a brick, Philips doesn't care

Review: The DVP 5982 initially seemed OK- the image quality for JPEG's was less than I had hoped. My main reason for purchasing was to try and display photo slideshows from a USB stick with HDTV resolution. No surprise, the 'upgrading' feature produces 480p ...

Pros: The price for an upconversion dvd player.

Cons: Malfunctions in a short time.

Review: I purchased this dvd player in Feb '08 for an RCA tv...to no avail.  10 months later, I hooked it up to my old school Magnavox tv via RF mod.  For 2 months it worked fine; then suddenly, the player began to play games...fortunately, I was able ...