I bought a Philips DVP5990 refurb & encountered an odd problem - when playing DVD rips (VOB files) from an external USB drive, the player will change to french half way through (actually, on some files, they start in french). I upgraded the firmware to the latest from Philips, but the problem remained. I returned this unit, and got another from another store. Same problem.

I haven't yet tried the VB6ROCOD firmware, though I plan on it.

I have searched the internet for anyone reporting similar issues, without success.

I'm not certain this is a player issue - it might be a ripping issues, though the same files play without any problems on my laptop.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.