Philips DVP642 vs Philips DVP5960 Xvid Playback

[slam87]

I'm trying to decide on which one to get. What I really care about the most is Xvid playback though. I have a lot of Xvid videos on my computer, most of which are recently encoded with the latest version of Xvid. I want to save some money, so can the DVP642 handle just about any Xvid file that the DVP5960 can?

[FulciLives]

Get the Philips DVP-5140 at WALMART for $49 and change (in US Dollars).

The Philips DVP-5140 is the little brother of the Philips DVP-5960

The two are very nearly similar in terms of quality and compatibility when it comes to MPEG-4 and DVD playback.

The main difference is that the DVP-5960 has HDTV up-conversion via a HDMI output. The DVP-5960 also has a USB 1.1 input.

Otherwise the DVP-5140 and DVP-5960 are identical and both are MUCH better at playing XviD MPEG-4 files than the Philips DVP-642.

In fact the Philips DVP-642 is garbage that should be avoided. I had one once and I absolutely hated the quality ... to top it off the damn thing broke on me after a month or two of use (and it was not even used "heavily" during that period of time).

I now have a Philips DVP-5140 (which I bought at WALMART) and I am very happy with the quality of the output.

Plus the DVP-5140/DVP-5960 handle XviD MPEG-4 files MUCH better than the Philips DVP-642

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
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