Guys, on someone's recommendation, I bought a DVD player that plays DivX movies and I got the Philips DVDR 3390. It works fine and the picture seems fine but it won't let me fast forward or reverse unless I go into this special T/C mode. I can do it from there but it's a pain as it requires quite a few actions to get to it.

Does anyone know this player and if I'm doing something wrong or is this it?

I got a buddy of mine a cheaper player with 5 disc changer for DivX movies but he has no problem just hitting the forward button.

Any suggestions or should I simply get one of the highly recommended players in here?

Also, when I put a regular movie in the other day, it played the previews but NOT the movie, the screen blanked out.

My regular Sony DVD player played it just fine...

Thanks

George