Product Description

Philips proudly presents the high-definition DVP5960 DVD player! With video upscaling technology, the DVP5960 increases the resolution of standard definition video signals to high definition, so you?ll be able to see more details and a sharper, more true-to-life picture. The DVP5960 is compatible with DivX formats, as well as DVD+R, RW and VCD supports, and packs the latest technology into its slimline design, which gels in seamlessly with your living room decor. The DVP5960 also comes with an extensive connection system, including a USB port, composite video output and a scart socket, so you can watch your favourite films in their true resolution, without loss of quality or detail.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Philips
• Model: DVP5960/05
• Released on: 2006-12-04

Features

• Region - Zone 2
• Standard - NTSC, PAL
• Compatible Media - CD, CD-R/CD-RW, Video CD/SVCD, DVD, DivX, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, CD, MP3-CD, MP3-DVD, CD-R/RW, WMA-CD Formats: MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX 3.11, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, DivX 6.0, DivX Ultra, Dolby Digital, MP3, PCM, WMA
• Video Out - CVBS composite video output HDMI output Video component output
• Other - Displays photos: slideshow with simultaneous MP3 music play, reframing, rotation Progressive Scan Parental control

Manufacturer's Description
It is a direct digital connection that can carry digital HD video as well as digital multichannel audio. By eliminating the conversion to analogue signals it delivers perfect picture and sound quality, completely free from noise. HDMI is fully backward-compatible with (Digital Video Interface) DVI.

Video Upscaling for improved resolution of up to 1080i

With Video Upscaling you can increase the resolution of SD (Standard Definition) video signals that DVD uses to HD (High Definition) so you’ll be able to see more details thanks to a sharper, more true-to-life picture.The resulting HD video output signal can be fed to an HD display through HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface).

High definition JPEG playback for images in true resolution

With High Resolution JPEG playback, you can show up to 2 Megapixel resolution on your Flat TV (FTV). Now you can view your digital pictures in their true resolution, without loss of quality or details.

Progressive Scan component video for optimized image quality

Progressive Scan doubles the vertical resolution of the image resulting in a noticeably sharper picture. Instead of sending a field comprising the odd lines to the screen first, followed by the field with the even lines, both fields are written at one time. A full image is created instantaneously, using the maximum resolution. At such a speed, your eye perceives a sharper picture with no line structure.

Movies: DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, (S)VCD, DivX

Multi-format playability allows you to play most disc formats for maximum disc compatibility and viewing pleasure.

DivX Ultra Certified for enhanced playback of DivX videos

DivX Ultra combines DivX playback with great features like integrated subtitles, multiple audio languages, multiple tracks and menus into one convenient file format.

Music: CD, MP3-CD, CD-R/RW & Windows Mediaâ„¢ Audio

Multi-format playability allows you to play most disc formats for maximum disc compatibility and listening pleasure.

Picture CD (JPEG) with music (MP3) playback

Picture CD is a CD-R or CD-RW disc on which you can store your MP3 and digital pictures. When inserting a Picture CD in the DVD player, a screen menu will pop up, showing your JPEGs and/or MP3 files on the disc. Just select the music and pictures files you wish to enjoy and press play or OK. You can watch your pictures on TV with your music playing simultaneously.

Ultra-slim design

The attractive enclosure has a very low profile.

Box Contents

Customer Reviews

brilliant but won't support packed bitstreams
great player - the usb port is particularly useful because you can plug in an external hard drive and play directly from it - but there is a jerky playback when the movies are packed bitstreams so you have to make sure they are unpacked beforehand (use MPEG4Modifier to do that) - also sadly doesn't support beyond 8 character names - but all in all a good player for the price

Excellent DivX/Xvid Player with Excellent Subtitle Support
I'm going to compare this player with a Tevion Xvid player I bought from ALDI a few years ago to illustrate how good this player is.

The Tevion player skipped when playing RW discs, this Philips player does not. This Philips player will play movies that the Tevion player could not - movies that would appear blocky and full of artifacts (bacause of imperfect encoding) on the Tevion play without flaws on the Philips (naturally this is not always the case).

The Philips support for subtitles in DivX/Xvid files is good to excellent: on the Tevion, for example, the letters of .srt subtitles were pure white, and would disappear into a white background making them impossible to read. On the Philips machine, .srt subtitles are transparent white on transparent grey, which means you can read them in dark or light scenes (although they're not perfect and in high-contrast situations, the subs can still be somewhat difficult to read, though not impossible), however, this player also supports .sub files (unlike the Tevion) and they appear like regular DVD subtitles - solid white with a black stroke - in short, perfect.

Also, when playing video files, fast-forwarding and rewinding is perfect (although the rewinding seems to go much faster than when going forward) and the video plays perfectly after resuming play, with no loss of audio/video synchronisation - my Tevion would drop out the image to catch up on the audio on resume of play, this player sometimes has slightly stuttered playback, but image and audio are always present (OK, not perfect, but really of little consequence).

A cool aspect of the player is the ability to create on-the-fly slideshows with music: navigate to the music file you want to play on your USB drive (for example) and start playing it, then navigate to the folder with your images, and start playing them - the player will continue playing the music files in the background. This can also be used to set a single static image while you listen to an mp3 album: play the music folder, then go to the image and play a single image with repeat - result: music with a set image of your choice on your TV screen.

The image slideshow function is adequate, although the transition is set to a downward swipe - I would have preferred a slightly less cheesy fade effect.

I can't comment on the HDMI aspect and I don't have a HD TV.

My only real gripe is the lack of USB 2 support. On a player that supports HDMI I would have thought USB 2 would have been standard. It's a shame and means that the banwidth isn't really high enough to stream video without judder from a USB stick or drive. (Seriously, who uses 1.1 these days?)

Other than that, I have been comntinually impressed with the functions of this machine - from a quick start-up time, smooth Xvid playing, and excellent subtitle support (press the subtitle button to cycle multiple languages, even, on xvid video) with many subtitle formats supported, to good support for any format of DVD disc (+R/RW & -R/RW) this really is an excellent stand alone player that I would have no hesitation on recommending to anyone.

not recommended
very poor,not built well,better spending money on a fine whisky,at least you get more out of it,does not like some disks,will not play extras on some disks,like other reviews like to freeze which is so annoying,try another brand,just placed an order for Sony at Amazon,so hope that is better,one or two disks-not burnt say bad disk which is a load of crap,please get your act together Philips