Philips Makes a Good Brick

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 quality of images only. DivX function was unreliable, whether from a DVD or USB stick, so stick with basic DVD's on this unit. And if you're expecting the DVDs to look remarkably better with this unit on your HDTV than with a regular DVD player, guess again. Playing off my laptop to the HDTV does a far better job. Lastly, hoping that upgrading the firmware would salvage this purchase, I was rewarded with it turning the unit into a brick. Philips offered no, that's right- zero, support.

Fortunately, it was a relatively cheap lesson to learn that one should not purchase from Philips.