Philips DVP-5982/37 upconvert HDMI 1080p Divx/DVD Player with USB $39.99 FS Refurb @ Philips Outlet

WillyWah said: Does anyone know if it can also play movies off a USB drive? I hate "wasting" a bunch of dvd's on movies if I can just view them via USB drive instead.

Yes, you can play movies off a USB drive. Maybe someone else will chime in with all of the formats this player supports.

jameson said: WillyWah said: Does anyone know if it can also play movies off a USB drive? I hate "wasting" a bunch of dvd's on movies if I can just view them via USB drive instead.

Yes, just bought this a week ago for $59.95 with free shipping, brand new at Amazon.com. I have watched many divx/xvid movies off of my 4gb usb drive since!

Coolness, just placed an order.

can it play xx movie? i mean does it have parental filtering function?

This is what I keep telling the HD fan boys to buy, but I kept getting beat down for it. LOL.
This is a total no brainer, especially with the usb flash drives getting so cheap.

I cannot remember the last time I even burned a disc since all I use now is the flash drive and usb port.
A 1 hour tv show is now 42 minutes with no commercials.

Izpoof said: A 1 hour tv show is now 42 minutes with no commercials.

Very interesting to get one. I "tape" TV shows as .mpg with WinTV (right now watching last night's SNL). Do you have to convert it once again to .divx? My pvr software do not have .divx option. What do you do? Thanks,

lillianlake said: Izpoof said: A 1 hour tv show is now 42 minutes with no commercials.

Very interesting to get one. I "tape" TV shows as .mpg with WinTV (right now watching last night's SNL). Do you have to convert it once again to .divx? My pvr software do not have .divx option. What do you do? Thanks,

You should cap it with either divx or xvid if you can, otherwise wait a day and torrent it, which is basically someone doing the time shifting for you and letting you watch it. cough cough.

ih8rebates said: ronaldtu said: I have DVP5960, it also has USB port but the USB devices connected cannot use NTFS(FAT only), hence any files larger than 4GB cannot be played. I want to know how about this 5982? Can it support NTFS?

The 5982 does not support NTFS. I had the intention of loading all of my movies on a portable hard drive and connecting the drive to the player until I discovered that the drive has to be fat32. That is the only draw-back of the player. But I now have a 16GB flash drive that holds about 8-10 movies. So that is 'butter' to me.

You can still use a portable hard drive, or a external usb, fat32 has nothing to do with that.

XP has limitations on formatting size but you can get around that with utilities to format larger drives.

I have a 500 gb drive hooked to my 5960 and its fine. cheap and easy media player my wife can use.
I have the 5982 in the basement, but i havent tried it yet.

I bought one of these refurbs back in december. Turned out to be a piece of junk. It keeps stalling in the middle of the movie playback. Then you have to turn te unit off by pulling the plug and start over. Same problem with usb playback with files over 1 gb in size.
I would spend some more money and get a new one from Amazon.

Does anyone know the warranty on this refurb?

finally.. was able to go through checkout process to find out they actually had in stock..ordered 1. thanks op.

In for 1.. Thanks OP!

After the order went through, I kind of hesitated.. OOPS, will it upconvert to
1080p? - I hope to have a HDTV cpable of 1080p eventually...
well, the OP had that right in his initial title! so DOH!
(probably by the time I do get one, Blue ray will be omnipresent! ARGH! LOL)

GREAT!

Thanks again!

ronaldtu said: goddahavit said: ih8rebates said: ronaldtu said: I have DVP5960, it also has USB port but the USB devices connected cannot use NTFS(FAT only), hence any files larger than 4GB cannot be played. I want to know how about this 5982? Can it support NTFS?

The 5982 does not support NTFS. I had the intention of loading all of my movies on a portable hard drive and connecting the drive to the player until I discovered that the drive has to be fat32. That is the only draw-back of the player. But I now have a 16GB flash drive that holds about 8-10 movies. So that is 'butter' to me.


You can still use a portable hard drive, or a external usb, fat32 has nothing to do with that.

XP has limitations on formatting size but you can get around that with utilities to format larger drives.

I have a 500 gb drive hooked to my 5960 and its fine. cheap and easy media player my wife can use.
I have the 5982 in the basement, but i havent tried it yet.
The problem is that I have some files that are larger than 4GB which cannot be copied over FAT32. I do not want to spend time to split the files into smaller files.

there is a work around for the fat32 limitation.
Google is your friend.

PowerEdge said: Does anyone know the warranty on this refurb?I was about to give you a hard time about asking this question, usually this type of information is posted right along with the item on the website. In this case the imformation was harder to find that I thought it would be, but it was there (embedded in Learn More link), here is the complete statement about warranties from Philips Outlet purchases-

Types of Products
There are three types of products available directly from Philips online: new products, clearance products, and factory renewed products.

New - These products are factory-sealed and in the original working condition. The standard Philips written warranty applies for most products; however, some products may include a specific warranty on the product detail page or in the product packaging. New products are found at the Philips Electronics Store.

Clearance (new discontinued) - These products are factory-sealed and are in the original working condition, but they are no longer in production. These products have not been used prior to purchase. The standard Philips written warranty applies for most new discontinued products; however, some products may include a specific warranty on the product detail page or in the product packaging. Find these products in our Clearance section of the Philips Electronics Store.

Factory-renewed - A factory-renewed product has been out of its original carton and may have cosmetic imperfections. All factory-renewed products have been tested to meet Philips' quality standards. A factory-renewed product carries a 90-day limited warranty from Philips. Factory-renewed products are exclusively found at the Philips Electronics Outlet Store.

jaymeson16 said: The player works great except I ran into one problem. During action scenes where there is fast movement, the player kind of slows down and gets choppy only when the file is played through the USB port. When I burn the same movie to disc, that problem goes away.

Same here with 5960. I am wondering if the problem will go away with 5982.

thanks OP, in for 1

you can fast forward definitely. its a great player. i'd pick a 2nd one up at this price.

TheWGP said: jaymeson16 said: The player works great except I ran into one problem. During action scenes where there is fast movement, the player kind of slows down and gets choppy only when the file is played through the USB port. When I burn the same movie to disc, that problem goes away.

This is a known limitation of the USB port - it's not as fast as it could be in actual usage. If you're watching a drama or comedy, etc - no problem. If you're watching a fast-paced action movie, especially ones with lots of things moving independently on the screen at the same time, you should expect some minor stuttering due to the bitrate being too high for the port to really keep up with.

To be honest, it hasn't been bad enough for me that I'd burn a DVD just to avoid this problem - and I've had three 5960's and a 5982 now (the 5982 from this deal).

Thanks for the information. I was assuming that the other posters may have been using flash memory drives with slow read speeds. Also, some external USB hard drive enclosures limit transfer speed more than others. I think most of mine at in the 20-some Mbps range when tested with HD Tach. So in this case, I think you are saying the USB port/chipset used in the Philips players is the limiting factor. Is this correct?

Many suggest buying an upconverting player like this or a Toshiba A2 or A3 HD DVD for its upconverting feature. Few mention that most HD displays will also upconvert. Some actually say they found that the Toshiba players A2/A3, the Pioneer DVD player, and these Philips players do not do that great of a job upconverting. They found that either other players do a better job upconverting or the HD display does a better job upconverting. I would hope that most $1000 and up HD displays would do a better job upconverting than one of these $40 players. Maybe they don't.

If one wants playback of more files, no stuttering, support for larger than 4 GB files, NTFS support, better upconverting, then build a HTPC. The newly released AMD chipset has hardware acceleration for some HD content with the integrated CPU. Those downloading divx/xvid probably know that while most TV shows are available as xvid/dixv files that more movies are now available as x264/mkv which only a dual processor HTPC will play back. A HTPC costs more and has a less friendly interface but also is more versatile.

So Brighton, I guess there's no use asking if either this upconverter or the Toshiba units that are on sale right now can play back MKV (matroska) files, using the H264 codec?

Meanwhile, my Sis contends that she read in a previous discussion of the Toshiba HD players here that there's an open source burner for OTA HD that produces DVDs in a format readable by the Toshibas but not the Bluerays and that is a reason to scoop up one of those players. Any idea what she's talking about?

Brighton said: TheWGP said: jaymeson16 said: The player works great except I ran into one problem. During action scenes where there is fast movement, the player kind of slows down and gets choppy only when the file is played through the USB port. When I burn the same movie to disc, that problem goes away.

This is a known limitation of the USB port - it's not as fast as it could be in actual usage. If you're watching a drama or comedy, etc - no problem. If you're watching a fast-paced action movie, especially ones with lots of things moving independently on the screen at the same time, you should expect some minor stuttering due to the bitrate being too high for the port to really keep up with.

To be honest, it hasn't been bad enough for me that I'd burn a DVD just to avoid this problem - and I've had three 5960's and a 5982 now (the 5982 from this deal).

Thanks for the information. I was assuming that the other posters may have been using flash memory drives with slow read speeds. Also, some external USB hard drive enclosures limit transfer speed more than others. I think most of mine at in the 20-some Mbps range when tested with HD Tach. So in this case, I think you are saying the USB port/chipset used in the Philips players is the limiting factor. Is this correct?

Many suggest buying an upconverting player like this or a Toshiba A2 or A3 HD DVD for its upconverting feature. Few mention that most HD displays will also upconvert. Some actually say they found that the Toshiba players A2/A3, the Pioneer DVD player, and these Philips players do not do that great of a job upconverting. They found that either other players do a better job upconverting or the HD display does a better job upconverting. I would hope that most $1000 and up HD displays would do a better job upconverting than one of these $40 players. Maybe they don't.

If one wants playback of more files, no stuttering, support for larger than 4 GB files, NTFS support, better upconverting, then build a HTPC. The newly released AMD chipset has hardware acceleration for some HD content with the integrated CPU. Those downloading divx/xvid probably know that while most TV shows are available as xvid/dixv files that more movies are now available as x264/mkv which only a dual processor HTPC will play back. A HTPC costs more and has a less friendly interface but also is more versatile.

alhall said: So Brighton, I guess there's no use asking if either this upconverter or the Toshiba units that are on sale right now can play back MKV (matroska) files, using the H264 codec?

Meanwhile, my Sis contends that she read in a previous discussion of the Toshiba HD players here that there's an open source burner for OTA HD that produces DVDs in a format readable by the Toshibas but not the Bluerays and that is a reason to scoop up one of those players. Any idea what she's talking about?

This player will play neither x264 nor H264. There are directions online for re-encoding/compressing an HD movie so it will fit on a single or dual layer DVD-R or DVD+R so that it can be played on a HD DVD player. I assume there are similar directions for OTA HD. Just search at www.avsforum.com or elsewhere. I skimmed the directions but do not recall the process.

I had Toshiba A2 that I bought at WalMart when it first went to $99 at WalMart in early November. I returned it just within the 90 day return window. I have a HTPC with an old Athlon CPU. I will build a new HTPC using a Black Edition AMD 5000+ CPU and an 8400GS or 8500GT video card I bought after seeing previous posting here. I will wait for the new Nvidia chipset motherboards. If I did not already have the Nvidia video cards I may buy one of the recently released AMD chipset motherboards and an ATI video card. I do not even own a big HDTV yet. I was ready to buy one in 1989 but we all know how the transision was delayed. I have a 480P 30" 19:6 CRT. I am may buy a Optima HD71 720P projector soon if Costo offers a $300 discount like it did in Canada earlier this year. So I have no real need for the A2 at this point. I may buy a Blu-ray player for my HTPC once the price of the drives drops below $100. They are $140 to $160 now.

So with a HTPC, I have no need to encode HD to DVD-R/DVD+R for playback on a HD DVD player. With a wired home network, I have no need to transfer video to a Philips player via flash drive or external HD. So while I have been very tempted to buy this or the Pioneer upconverting DVD players, I can't justify it with the HTPC sitting there that can do so much more. So those wanting a cheap, easy solution for some needs, buy this Philips player. Those asking for more should build a HTPC.