Certain DVD player at walmart

[Neve72]

hey coudl someone please refresh my memory but i rember tlak on here about a very good dvd player that can be purchased at walmart and plays many different types of formats does anybody recall this dvd player ?

[Neve72]

oh and also it was priced very well around 50$ ?

[FulciLives]

You are probably thinking of the Philips DVP-642 which WALMART usually stocks for around $58 US Dollars.

This DVD player can be made region free with a simple hack. It also has the ability to play back a PAL DVD and convert it to NTSC standard ... although it does a rather piss poor job of it.

It is also capable of playing back DivX and XviD formats but it is very picky so it is not uncommon for some XviD files to not play back correctly although DivX is usually not much of a problem.

It will also do VCD and SVCD and MP3 files.

Although the price is nice it really is not that good of a DVD player. The quality of DVD images are not that great and DivX/XviD could be better.

The only other DVD player that I can think of that has most of the same features ... but works much better at a "budget price" ... is the Pioneer DV-383 which can be bought for $109 US Dollars at the following website:

http://www.220-electronics.com/

Not only is the Pioneer a better DVD player all arouond but it is region free and does PAL to NTSC much better than the Philips unit. The quality of DivX/XviD is better and there are less issues with playing back XviD encoded files.

If I were on a "tight" budget I would get the Pioneer instead of the Philips.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
Read the following link (Scroll down you will see what I mean) ---> CLICK HERE

[Neve72]

ok well can somebody help if i put it this way i am on a tight budget and i would like a decent dvd player that can play vcd's and svcd's can you help me with that ?

[FulciLives]

ok well can somebody help if i put it this way i am on a tight budget and i would like a decent dvd player that can play vcd's and svcd's can you help me with that ?

Dude if you can't afford $109 then you are one broke mother f'er and I feel bad for you.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[budz]

ok well can somebody help if i put it this way i am on a tight budget and i would like a decent dvd player that can play vcd's and svcd's can you help me with that ?

Dude if you can't afford $109 then you are one broke mother f'er and I feel bad for you.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Whoas!

[Neve72]

true you are right but there are players under $109

[samijubal]

You can get a good player on ebay for far less than that. I bought 2 JVCs for $10 each that work fine. They are 12 bit not 10 bit players even.

[smitbret]

You're probably referring to the Apex line they used to carry. In general they were excellent DVD players at very little money. Most of them would play any format you thru at them. I noticed that Wal-Mart stopped carrying them a year or so ago, but someone said they'd picked them up again.
-Brett

[Ai Haibara]

It probably depends on the Wal-Mart, and even then, I'm not sure if they're just putting old stock on the shelves to try to clear it. Is Apex still producing new models?

[budz]

some wally worlds have cyberhome dvd players that are dirt cheap for under $45.00.

[SingSing]

walmart.com shows the single disc DVD player available are from Sony and RCA. Both of them are on most people avoid list. It is not easy to return electronics at Walmart.

Sears has a real return policy. They also have JVC and Toshiba Players, which are much better. Like this :
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&vertical=ELEC&pid=0573750...at=DVD+Players

[budz]

walmart.com shows the single disc DVD player available are from Sony and RCA. Both of them are on most people avoid list.

Sears has JVC and Pioneer Players, which are much better, and a real return policy. Sears now have a real cheap player at $29.00. http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&vertical=ELEC&pid=0575715...00&tab=spe#tab

It is not easy to return electronics at Walmart.

In my opinion I'd rather return electronics to wally worlds than pay a restocking fee at Sears. I've never had any problems returning electronics to wally worlds.

[TBoneit]

For $59.99 at best buy the Toshiba Model: SD-3990 seems to play most everything I've tried Raw Mpegs, DVDs NTSC & PAL, Xvid & Divx

[DereX888]

for ~$80 you can buy RJ-Tech player that supports any divx/xvid codec and option (including GMC), as well as PAL<>NTSC on the fly, proper SVCD playback (with all subtitles and audio tracks - something DVP642 cant do), plays any kind of media, etc etc.

But if $80 is still too much for you - go hunt for some old PC (a computer) in your local computer stores.
Few weeks ago I bought for $25 a desktop Pentium2 450MHz system with 256MB SDRAM and 8MB videocard with tv-out, 4.3GB hdd and dvd-rom included. It had broken floppy drive (which I replaced). After installing Windows 2000 and a cheap no-brand wifi G card I made this junk (in about an hour) into a nice networked media player for my buddy. He can't play games on it, or record video, but it does anything standalone dvd player do - and much more. For a total cost of about $50 ($25 for PC, $15 for wifi card, and assuming costs of $5 for floppy and $5 for extra 128MB SDRAM PC100 that I threw in since there empty 3rd memory slot).
In my area stores with computer junk are full of such old junk that came back from office lease etc. For ~$60-80 you could find nice 1+GHz Pentium3 already suitable enough for HDTV playback as well (if you'd invest in a decoder card too).
Ofcourse the major drawback is lack of remote control, but if you are patient you can find an old X10 "mouse remote control" for $5-30 on ebay (officially they work on Win95/98 only, but Win2000/XP see it as mouse right away if you enable serial keys hehe)... Just a thought