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!!!!!!!

If it's in stock, I will pick up 3!

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.

got the 5992 in Seattle Costco! confirmed...$39.99!

tHANX!

...hope it's as good as the 5990 i returned to WalMart!

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 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.

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.

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

the 5990:
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.

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.

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.