Comments on: Old News, DVP642 is cinephile’s best friend

By: Erzengel

Erzengel — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:23:32 +0000

You kids want a Divx / Xvid capable DVD player? i have 3 words for you: Xbox Mod Chip.
My Xbox has became my whole entertainment center, i can watch any DVD, any avi file, with subs, no hassle, and plus, i can play games… and its hard drive its very easy to upgrade.

By: OhGizmo! » The Kiss DP558 HDD/Ethernet DVD Player

OhGizmo! » The Kiss DP558 HDD/Ethernet DVD Player — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:07:57 +0000

[...] when I was shopping for a DivX capable DVD player. I ended up purchasing the great cheap Philips DVP-642, but the Kiss equivalent stuck in my head for a while for the simple reason that it was the only one [...]

By: Red

Red — Fri, 20 May 2005 13:47:01 +0000

I don’t know what Per’s problem is because I own one of these DVP642’s and I think that’s it’s the next best thing to sliced bread. As for the Xvid problems it was never desined to play them at all. It playing the ones it does play is just icing on a perfict cake.

By: Per

Per — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:25:48 +0000

The DVP642 or 630 sucks because the chipset in it. I have a cheap other player with the MediaTek 1339 chipset instead of the ESS Vibratto in the philips, and the chepo plays everything. Everything I tell you! So return anything with ESS in it…

By: Purple

Purple — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:13:05 +0000

I also have one of these and while it generally does a good job of playing back xvid and dvix it does have sme really annoying quirks. If the xvid has Qpel or GMC it won’t play. Also the avi files have to be encoded in a standard format or ditto, no play. But it’s not a bad macnine for 70 bucks.

By: GeoDude

GeoDude — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:14:58 +0000

I like my DVP642 also, not perfect, but plays 95% of all the .AVI files I have tried. Using Roxio, I have found that ISO9660 works but Joliet has problems…