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Phillips DVP5996K DVD Player

Roydon Cerejo, Nov 21, 2008 1910 hrs IST

The latest DVD player from Philips has stunning looks and offers a whole lot of features.

Expert Rating:

Plays DivX Ultra, Sleek design and light weight, Reads portable HDD's.

Does not play QPEL, Xvid, WMV.

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EXPERT REVIEW

With DVD players getting cheaper and more feature packed everyday, the decision to choose between them keeps getting tougher. Let's see what this new player has to offer.

The DVP5996K is a new DVD player from Philips, which comes with a host of features and has a stylish slim body.

The last player from Philips was the DVP3266 and this one seems to be very similar in features except for support for DivX Ultra format.

Bundle

The DVP5996K comes bundled with the following accessories:

Instruction manual

Quick start guide

HDMI cable

It's nice to see a HDMI cable included in the package as the LG player we reviewed a little while back didn't have one.

USER COMMENTS

Iv got the same problem as Caesar. Any solutions

by Madhu, Coimbatore, on Nov 07, 2009 02:05 PM, Report abuse Reply

Caesar- did you get ur player hang problem solved? I have exactly the same problem. I always thought this payer supported Xvid, but in the above description says it doesn't. This player sucks big time.

by nikunj, Pune, on Aug 24, 2009 02:18 PM, Report abuse Reply

The cons says : "Does not play QPEL, Xvid, WMV." I dont think this is completely true. Check out page 20 of the user guide which says, The unit plays: – WMV i les on CD-R(W)/ DVD+R(W) – The i le extension has to be ‘.wmv’. – DivX® i les on CD-R(W)/ DVD+R(W) – The i le extensions has to be ‘.AVI’, ‘.MPG’ or ‘.MP4’. – DivX® Certii ed, DivX® Ultra Certii ed – Q-pel accurate motion compensation – Global Motion Compensation (GMC) playback Even xvid files play fine, I have played so many.

by Krishna, Bangalore, on May 10, 2009 10:45 AM, Report abuse Reply

I purchased this model a few days back. It does play both WMV and Xvid. Although none of the Xvid rips i tried used Qpel or GMC. But I am facing a queer problem with Xvid files' playback. Initially the playback is perfect. But after an some time (random), video pauses and the player hangs. There's nothing i can do after that except pull the plug and restart. If i replay the movie, it might hang at a different part of the movie. This happens more often when i try to fast-forward through a movie. This is quite irritating. Has anyone ever faced this problem?

by Caesar, Bangalore, on Aug 16, 2009 06:43 PM, Report abuse

any one know how to makie this region free....i have a lot of region 1 dvd's that do not play on this...

by andy, chennai, on Feb 04, 2009 10:40 AM, Report abuse Reply

Try this: Go to Setup -> Preference Page Enter 138931 using the numeric keypad The current region is displayed on the screen. Use the up/down keys to change this to to 0, press OK.

by Krishna, Bangalore, on May 10, 2009 10:39 AM, Report abuse

Krishna's solution worked! I've got DVDs from all regions to play!

by Ketan, BLR, on Jun 01, 2009 05:42 PM, Report abuse

is 3996 model ok? the only diff between 5996 and 3996 is the karoke option... lemme know plz

by sandeep, hyd, on May 26, 2009 12:24 PM, Report abuse Reply

Does 5996 plays xvid format?...i really doubt please clear

by dennis, mumbai, on Apr 02, 2009 04:00 PM, Report abuse Reply

Id DOES play Xvid.

by Anonymous, qwafd, on Dec 09, 2008 06:15 PM, Report abuse Reply

hi i want to purchase this player where did you get this player from ??

by Sid, indore, on Jan 04, 2009 10:31 AM, Report abuse

Does it plays xvid format...i doubt...

by dennis, mumbai, on Apr 02, 2009 03:57 PM, Report abuse

I went to purchase this player and took along with me my WD 120 GB USB Hard drive. I had .avi movie files which i tested and i observed a judder in moving scenes, observed more judder in HDMI connection. Compared the same with LG 388 and there was np juddering in it for the same movie files. But LG 388 took 15 minutes time to scan my Hard drive. Otherwise the picture quality was amazing. At present i am holding my decision to buy this player because of juddering.

by Tushar, Pune, on Jan 12, 2009 01:49 PM, Report abuse Reply

Correction - I went to purchase this player and took along with me my WD 120 GB USB Hard drive. I had .avi movie files which i tested and i observed a judder in moving scenes, observed more judder in HDMI connection. Compared the same with LG 388 and there was no juddering in it for the same movie files. But LG 388 took 15 minutes time to scan my Hard drive. Otherwise the picture quality for phillips 5996 is amazing. At present i am holding my decision to buy this player because of juddering.

by Tushar, Pune, on Jan 12, 2009 01:52 PM, Report abuse

You should go with Philips. It will turn out to be a value for money. What is juddering?

by sidds83, Pune, on Jan 13, 2009 12:52 PM, Report abuse

Juddering, I can simplify and say there were jerks in moving scenes.

by Tushar, Pune, on Jan 28, 2009 07:12 PM, Report abuse

Does this machine support hard disk too (NTFS or FAT 32)?

by Ravi, bangalore, on Feb 18, 2009 04:35 PM, Report abuse

ah no... no HDMI cable in the box... i think it depends to the region do you all get hdmi cable?

by sugik, indonesia, on Feb 17, 2009 09:02 AM, Report abuse Reply

GOOD DVD PLAYAR

by AMBAR GAIKWAD, PUNE, on Nov 23, 2008 05:12 PM, Report abuse Reply

Y doesn't philips give a quality coaxial cable with there players??.i hav ended buyin cables worth around 550rs which r not true coax.