Others say...

"Plays AVI files"
I had been looking for a player that would play my AVI files. I found this, and not only will it play the AVI videos I've burned to DVD but it will also play them from a USB stick. I love this!

My only caveat is you have to use short file names to be able to read the files. Which means I either don't know the order of the video's I'm watching or I have to re-burn everything to short file names. I'm willing to put up with this, cuz hey I CAN watch them.

The only other thing I wasn't ecstatic about is the remote, very small button. It could have been designed better.

"OK, but limited USB Hard-disc support."
I was influenced by the USB connection in buying this player, thinking I could connect my USB hard-disk with downloaded divx video files.

Unfortunately, this player does not support the NTFS file system, only FAT16 and FaT32. Also, it only plays wma, mp3, and jpeg files and not mpeg. In short, the USB thing is just a gimmick.

"HDDVD EXCELLENT BUY"
This Philips DVD player with HDMI is an excellent buy. It is thin, light, and works like it should. I use it with a HDTV with excellent results. I would definately buy this product again.

"Great little player, however be aware that it won't work with NTFS formatted hard drives"
I purchased this player mainly to play divx/xvid files on a portal hard drive without having to burn DVDs. It will recognize a USB flash drive without a problem, however if you plug in most portable hard drives it will not work. Portable hard drives are often formatted in NTFS format. For example I have an 800 gig hard drive I tried to use initially and it would not open it.

I had to reformat the drive to FAT32 to use it with this DVD player. The downside of this is now only 250 gigs of my 800 gig hard drive are viewable.

Still, it works for me as a "poor mans" media center. It would be nicer to have an xbox 360 to play the files via the network.

"Things are seldom what they seem"
We purchased this set to go with a DVI TV. Bought the unit and an HDMI to DVI cord. When I received them and read the literature I became concerened and called Philips. According to their aupport people, once the DVI cable is plugged in, the audio R/L RCA plugs are turned off and you can't get any sound out of them. Philips site and the literature both say that the HDMI is 100% compatible with DVI but this person told me that was not true. I didn't bother to try and hook it up that way and maybe the person at Philips was incorrect. However, from there things took a step for the worse,

Just before I was about to return the cable and DVP, we decided to buy a LCD HDMI capable TV. Plugged the unit in and it worked fine, for about 2 weeks, whereupon it decided that it didn't want to play any more DVD's. I tried everything from brand new DVD's to ones that had just been played on an extremely cheap player. It wouldn't play anything. I called Philips and they said to power the unit down and then turn it on again, I did so. Not, not only will it not play a DVD any more, it wouldn't produce a HDMI signal to my LCD (i was able to get it to work with component cables accept it only played for a short period of time before freezing up again). I purchased this item based on all the favorable reviews, the upscaling feature, and the fact that it was supposed to be fully cdompatible with DVI. I am returning this product to Amazon and will look for something else.