wow, this is confusing. I just got the 5990 model from bestbuy for a good price after $20 Rzone and coupon. I just went to Philips site and I see no difference between the two. And don't say WMV because the 5990 plays wmv. this is weird.
Ok just called and they are the same exact machine. just different model numbers. But $40 with no coupon is definitely the best deal so go for it.
kb6565
Ancient Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 6:11p
Nice find, OP. $6.50 cheaper than I paid for the DVP-5990 at BB yesterday.
miles124
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 6:24p
ya i got the 5990 at WalMart for around $59.99 about 3 weeks ago...gonna return it if it indeed is the same player...are you positive all features are the same>???...i tested 5990 and it works great...usb 2...reads .vobs from USB drive....wmv files and divx all play great
can anyone confirm once again?
vleek
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 6:30p
It's hard to figure out from Philips web-site, but it seems that 5990 has plain "USB" which means USB1.0, only 5992 specification clearly indicates "USB 2.0" All other old Philips DivX-players (5980/82, 5960/62 and etc) have only USB 1.0 interface.
miles124
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 6:41p
i know...that's what the website shows, but clearly on the box, when i got it, it says USB 2.0 and .wmv playback...exactly what it says the 5992 does...so, that's why everybody is confused..
areicb
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 7:06p
Question. Does the USB allow you to play movies from an ext hard drive? I am not real savvy on DVD players although the upconversion would sure be nice for my 65" Mitsu. Another thing I dont "need"
vleek
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 7:11p
I think your Mitsu already doing a good upconversion. That feature is more important for low-end TVs. And yes, you can play back movies from external flash or hard drives (FAT32, powered from wall adapter).
jenyeh
New Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 7:16p
Or external drives based on the 2.5" Notebook Hard Drives. I have the 5982/37, and an 2.5" external drive will be juiced by the DVD Player. For an external based on the 3.5 desktop drives, you'll need to plug it in the wall.
jenyeh
New Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 7:22p
sdjones said: Philips dvp-5992 dvd player with usb 1080p hdmi upconversion for $39.99 at costco regular price $49.99
on sale at costco for $39.99 (after $10 instant rebate applied at register) instant rebate (coupon 314792) good until 6/15/2008
jenyeh said: Or external drives based on the 2.5" Notebook Hard Drives. I have the 5982/37, and an 2.5" external drive will be juiced by the DVD Player. For an external based on the 3.5 desktop drives, you'll need to plug it in the wall.My 5962 can not power up my 2.5" WD 250GB drive. May be Philips has made some improvement, but so far you are the 1st who reported workin 2.5" ext. drive.
oldeil
New Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 7:52p
I have been waiting for a good deal on this dvd player for a while. Can someone post the link, I couldn't find it on costco's website. Is it available in all cstco stores.
Thanks.
lilichka523
Happy Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 9:41p
vleek said: jenyeh said: Or external drives based on the 2.5" Notebook Hard Drives. I have the 5982/37, and an 2.5" external drive will be juiced by the DVD Player. For an external based on the 3.5 desktop drives, you'll need to plug it in the wall.My 5962 can not power up my 2.5" WD 250GB drive. May be Philips has made some improvement, but so far you are the 1st who reported workin 2.5" ext. drive.
My 5982 works with a 2.5" external disk enclosure w/o seperate power supply, but the disk i tried it with was only 11GB. Haven't tried anything bigger. Maybe it depends on the hard drive volume.
HDTVset
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 10:30p
Can this player also upconvert DivX video to 10820P from USB drive?
scholar10 said: How would this compare to Toshiba HD-DVD A3 for upconversion of SD DVDs?
Stay with the Toshiba, but if you want to play divx/xvid/wmv flix and /or use a usb flash drive then this is the player to get, hands down the one to get.
AS a matter of fact, EVERYONE NEEDS TO OWN ONE OF THESE. RUN, DONT WALK AND BUY THIS UNIT. NO MORE WATCHIN 60 MIN tv shows with commercials, now all are 42 min and comm free. movies in a flash BAM! gotta love this thing. I put a slice of pizza in the dvd tray and closed it and Ill be a monkeys uncle , it actually played the pizza slice!!!!!!!
thinwalletwithfw
New Member
posted: Jun. 9, 2008 @ 11:09p
Just came back from Costco at Sunnyvale, CA , no sign of the DVD player and an associate informed me , whatever they have on the rack (Sony/panny) is all they have. Is it country wide ?
thinwalletwithfw said: Just came back from Costco at Sunnyvale, CA , no sign of the DVD player and an associate informed me , whatever they have on the rack (Sony/panny) is all they have. Is it country wide ?
Didn't see any at Irvine CA neither.
go4broke
Tired Member
posted: Jun. 10, 2008 @ 12:40a
This player is not listed on Costco.com website. Many people can't find this at their local Costco store. I can't find it at the Costco in Tustin, CA. ugh, not a hot deal if only a handful can get it.
this is interesting between the DVP5990/37 and DVP5992/37 the 5992: link
Looks to me like the 5990 has a firmware posted on the website, while the 5992 has no "software and drivers" section to it. Could it be that the 5992 is just the 5990 with latest firmware? But tell you what though, if the 5992 is only produced in limited numbers, Philips might not care about giving much thought about firmware update.
miles124
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 10, 2008 @ 1:02a
got the 5992 in Seattle Costco! confirmed...$39.99!
tHANX!
...hope it's as good as the 5990 i returned to WalMart!
snochybchy
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 10, 2008 @ 7:29a
HDTVset said: Can this player also upconvert DivX video to 10820P from USB drive?
I don't know about 10820P ,but the 5990 appears to upconvert DivX to 1080P. (At least that is what my TV is reporting.)
I was waiting for the 5992, but I saw the 5990 at best buy. Big improvement. No more jacked up video when water or grass comes on the screen. Longer file name recognition is very nice (I think 14 now.) Works well with a 250gb fat formatted external power hard drive.
HDTVset
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Jun. 10, 2008 @ 8:39a
snochybchy said: HDTVset said: Can this player also upconvert DivX video to 10820P from USB drive?
I don't know about 10820P ,but the 5990 appears to upconvert DivX to 1080P. (At least that is what my TV is reporting.)
I was waiting for the 5992, but I saw the 5990 at best buy. Big improvement. No more jacked up video when water or grass comes on the screen. Longer file name recognition is very nice (I think 14 now.) Works well with a 250gb fat formatted external power hard drive. Thanks. My mistake.
ysb
Member
posted: Jun. 10, 2008 @ 8:46a
To those who own this machine:
Can it play VOB files from external hard drives?
I have an old model of this machine (5937 or something). Though it did play VOB files (from a jump drive), playback is very choppy, which could be because of the USB 1.0 interface. With USB 2.0 on this one, I hope it can play VOB files smoothly from an external hard drive.
I have an old model of this machine (5937 or something). Though it did play VOB files (from a jump drive), playback is very choppy, which could be because of the USB 1.0 interface. With USB 2.0 on this one, I hope it can play VOB files smoothly from an external hard drive.
Thanks for any info.
Why are you messing with vob files? These are pretty much regulated to a dvd and if you're going to go thru the steps of decrypting a dvd then you may as well decrypt it to an avi. Vob files just arent your run of the mill file formats. And if the dvd isnt encrypted then why not just use the whole dvd anyway, its not like the rest of the files are going to add much miore to the entired enchilada.
Can this upconvert an AVI file to 1080? Or you need one that is already created at that resolution? ALso, does this play .iso files? I have the 5960 and the older 42 models(don't remember the exact model anymore).
areicb said: Question. Does the USB allow you to play movies from an ext hard drive? I am not real savvy on DVD players although the upconversion would sure be nice for my 65" Mitsu. Another thing I dont "need"
The earlier players before 5990 has USB 1.0. You don't really need USB 2.0 unless you are playing high resolution downloads from external HDD. However if you playing a DVD's dump from hard drive via the VOB files, then USB 2.0 is a must, since the bit rate is too much.
vleek said: jenyeh said: Or external drives based on the 2.5" Notebook Hard Drives. I have the 5982/37, and an 2.5" external drive will be juiced by the DVD Player. For an external based on the 3.5 desktop drives, you'll need to plug it in the wall.My 5962 can not power up my 2.5" WD 250GB drive. May be Philips has made some improvement, but so far you are the 1st who reported workin 2.5" ext. drive.
As far as i can tell, all the Philips USB player cannot power the external drives. They just supply enough power for a flash drive to work. If your 2.5'' HDD has also an optional power supply, then feed the external power to it.
go4broke said: This player is not listed on Costco.com website. Many people can't find this at their local Costco store. I can't find it at the Costco in Tustin, CA. ugh, not a hot deal if only a handful can get it.
this is interesting between the DVP5990/37 and DVP5992/37 the 5992: link
Looks to me like the 5990 has a firmware posted on the website, while the 5992 has no "software and drivers" section to it. Could it be that the 5992 is just the 5990 with latest firmware? But tell you what though, if the 5992 is only produced in limited numbers, Philips might not care about giving much thought about firmware update.
5992 is not limited production DVD player. Also apart from firmware, if you look closely the front view of the player looks better on 5992, so even the casing is different.
I have an old model of this machine (5937 or something). Though it did play VOB files (from a jump drive), playback is very choppy, which could be because of the USB 1.0 interface. With USB 2.0 on this one, I hope it can play VOB files smoothly from an external hard drive.
Thanks for any info.
The choppy play back is due to USB 1.0 on older drives. I have the 5962/37 and it still does the same. Am going to try the 5992. I only benefit of upgrading i feel is higher bit rate movies can be played smoothly without chopping (including .VOB) and the longer file names.
Izpoof said: ysb said: To those who own this machine:
Can it play VOB files from external hard drives?
I have an old model of this machine (5937 or something). Though it did play VOB files (from a jump drive), playback is very choppy, which could be because of the USB 1.0 interface. With USB 2.0 on this one, I hope it can play VOB files smoothly from an external hard drive.
Thanks for any info.
Why are you messing with vob files? These are pretty much regulated to a dvd and if you're going to go thru the steps of decrypting a dvd then you may as well decrypt it to an avi. Vob files just arent your run of the mill file formats. And if the dvd isnt encrypted then why not just use the whole dvd anyway, its not like the rest of the files are going to add much miore to the entired enchilada.
Chill dude. Lot of people love to dump their DVDs on the hard drive for ease of use, or they might have downloaded those and want to play it from the ext. hdd.
Besides if you aren't familiar with conversions, then please understand the time saved and power saved by just dumping the DVD via DVDShrink (takes about 20-25mts on my quad-core) vs converting to divx format takes about 2hrs. Also the end result quality of DVD is way better than 1 pass divx conversion in 2hrs.
If i have about 30 different DVDs that my kids frequently use, i rather drop them on a 750GB ext. hdd (movie .vobs only) than convert everyone of them to .divx/.avi format, so they don't have to use/find the DVDs and switching a movie is very quickly and easily done via the dvd players remote.
rg2006
New Member
posted: Jun. 10, 2008 @ 9:44a
DealsBrokeMe said: vleek said: jenyeh said: Or external drives based on the 2.5" Notebook Hard Drives. I have the 5982/37, and an 2.5" external drive will be juiced by the DVD Player. For an external based on the 3.5 desktop drives, you'll need to plug it in the wall.My 5962 can not power up my 2.5" WD 250GB drive. May be Philips has made some improvement, but so far you are the 1st who reported workin 2.5" ext. drive.
As far as i can tell, all the Philips USB player cannot power the external drives. They just supply enough power for a flash drive to work. If your 2.5'' HDD has also an optional power supply, then feed the external power to it.
Can anyone confirm if this 5992 will power and recognize a 320GB Western Digital 2.5" drive? I currently have a 5982 that would recognize, power, and play my Toshiba 2.5" 80GB drive, but the 5982 won't recognize the Western Digital. Both are formated as FAT32. Perhaps it can't recognize a drive as big as 320GB? If this 5992 can play my 320GB WD pocket drive, then I'm all over it.
ysb
Member
posted: Jun. 10, 2008 @ 10:02a
DealsBrokeMe said:
The choppy play back is due to USB 1.0 on older drives. I have the 5962/37 and it still does the same. Am going to try the 5992. I only benefit of upgrading i feel is higher bit rate movies can be played smoothly without chopping (including .VOB) and the longer file names.
Thanks DealBrokeMe (Nice nickname!)
Please try VOB file playback on a jump drive or external hard drive and report back. I'm most interested to know if this machine plays all the VOB files in proper sequence. How about FF and RW, smooth or choppy? Also please let me know if it displays subtitles when playing VOB files.
Also thanks for defending my original questions. There are many reasons people want to play VOB files directly from hard drives. Converting to DivX is too time consuming and loses quality. Playing directly from hard drives saves me from burning DVD discs. Besides, there are times when a DVD dump is more than 4.35GB and can't be burnt on one normal DVD disc. Of course there is DVD Shrink and the like, but I just want to be able to watch the movies without all the hassles.
Anyway, please try playing VOB files on this machine and report back. Thank you for doing me and many people a big favor.
If you already have a dvd player and just looking for something that will play off the HDD or Network, then you should look into the Media streamer devices such as Cinematube, WD TV HD media playr (Live version if looking for networking), Asus HD Media player, Patriot Media player, Seagate Theater, Xtreamer, Boxee (not yet released), PopBox (not yet released)
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