Typical price: £60
What is it: Inexpensive DVD player with integrated video scaling
What we think: Great value as an affordable partner for a flat-screen display
Average user rating
10.0
perfect
Average user rating from 2 users
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Philips DVP5960 user reviews
January 17, 2007
Posted by: Mark Phillips
"At last, a quality DivX player that actually works."
What I like:
Plays DivX (and Xvid) at the correct aspect ratio and no jitter etc.
What I don't like:
Nothing yet
Review:
This to my knowledge is one of the only players to recognise the AVI DAR flag. So even in the event that the aspect ratio did show incorrectly it can be corrected using MPEG4Modifier in minutes. The picture quality is good and the sound is okay too. Also although not stated it plays AVI files straight off an 80GB drive (partitioned as fat32 (primary), WOW). I have tried LG and Samsung players BUT the aspect ratio is always wrong AND can't be corrected with the DAR flag. So to sum up £60 (UK) for all this is a godsend, I love it.
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