choirboy
Active Member
Just wanted to post that I recently got one of these from John Lewis and I wasn't impressed.
My machine had a glaring fault straight out the box, the sound kept glitching oddly when playing discs. This would have been perhaps understandable to an extent if playing DIVX or something as sometimes the files are badly encoded.
But it happened whilst playing DVD discs too.
The other problem I had with it was the extremely poor remote which is very uncomfortable in the hand, had small, fiddly buttons but worst of all had VERY poor range. Had to be practically in front of it seemingly to get it working, so those which their player and seating position at odd angles may need to bear this mind.
The drive seemed noisy too imo. Anyway returned it and bought a Sony DVPNS76H which I very happy with
Superb player!
Btw, I updated the firmware to the latest on the Philips site just in case the sound glitching was a firmware issue but it didn't go away.
On the plus side I emailed Philips about the new firmware concerning packed bitstream support (and whether they removed it) and was told this:
"With regards to your query we can advise that packed bitstream support for Xvid has not been removed from the update to the DVP5960."
So that might be good news to some of you.
Anyway just wanted to share some thoughts, to those of you who have the Philips machine and like it then that's all good
My machine had a glaring fault straight out the box, the sound kept glitching oddly when playing discs. This would have been perhaps understandable to an extent if playing DIVX or something as sometimes the files are badly encoded.
But it happened whilst playing DVD discs too.
The other problem I had with it was the extremely poor remote which is very uncomfortable in the hand, had small, fiddly buttons but worst of all had VERY poor range. Had to be practically in front of it seemingly to get it working, so those which their player and seating position at odd angles may need to bear this mind.
The drive seemed noisy too imo. Anyway returned it and bought a Sony DVPNS76H which I very happy with
Superb player!Btw, I updated the firmware to the latest on the Philips site just in case the sound glitching was a firmware issue but it didn't go away.
On the plus side I emailed Philips about the new firmware concerning packed bitstream support (and whether they removed it) and was told this:
"With regards to your query we can advise that packed bitstream support for Xvid has not been removed from the update to the DVP5960."
So that might be good news to some of you.
Anyway just wanted to share some thoughts, to those of you who have the Philips machine and like it then that's all good