[daveywavey007]

I'm after a player to replace my ageing Toshiba SD-210E. I want it to play DIVX and Upscaling would be an advantage and DTS out, as I have a Sony HT-K250 Home Theatre kit.

Looks like it's a toss between Philips DVP 5960 and Panasonic DVDS52. Bugdet is £100 max. I'd appreciate your thoughts/suggestions/recommendatons.

[ninjafeel1970]

I had the philips and found after the firmware upgrade it was verygood but i noticed black bars on the picture top and bottom only about an inch so i decided to try the panny and the black bars are not there no picture issues at all, the film i noticed it on was monsters inc. My views of the panasonic are the player produces a very fine pic via hdmi and there are more features and picture adjustments running it on my 32" panny lcd it looks fantastic good thing is you can buy it from argos try it if you dont like it take it back wish it was that easy with currys & comet.

[spooney]

Originally Posted by daveywavey007

I'm after a player to replace my ageing Toshiba SD-210E. I want it to play DIVX and Upscaling would be an advantage and DTS out, as I have a Sony HT-K250 Home Theatre kit.

Looks like it's a toss between Philips DVP 5960 and Panasonic DVDS52. Bugdet is £100 max. I'd appreciate your thoughts/suggestions/recommendatons.

5960, this is the one you need a firm ware upgrade to make DTS and HDMI work porperly? I think there are some threads in the forum.

I own a S52 and can fully recommend it. Great picture and great sound via coax. You can make it easly region free via a remote like Pronto and there is a firmware available to disable UOP (the annouying "sit-through-anti-piracy-and-mandatory-adverts-and-trailer" sessions or you have to interupt the movie go back to menue and change the audio track instead of pressing the audio button on the remote))