Philips PET824 8.5-Inch Portable DVD / DivX Player
Thursday, 29. July 2010. 03:01 by admin
- DivX 3.1, play Mpeg 4 video
- 8.5″ TFT, LCD Widescreen
- Long Play, rechargeable battery, up to 6 hours play time
- Plays virtually all CD and DVD formats
- Come with Car adapter and Slim Remote control
Product Description
10.25″ Portable DVD, DivX 3.1, Widescreen, Plays MP3, DVD, DVD+/-R/RW, CD-RW, JPEG pictures, Built-in rechargable battery, up to 6 hours play time, Beautiful piano white finish, Car adpater, Slim remote control, Zero Bright Dt screen.From the Manufacturer
Enjoy highest-quality images that are free from annoying blank spots on the LCD screen. LCD displays commonly have imperfections, termed as ‘bright dots’ by the LCD industry. A limited number of bright dots were once considered an inevitable side effect of LCD mass production. With Philips’ strict quality control procedures used in our Portable DVD Players, our LCD displays are produced with zero tolerance for bright dots. Select Portable DVD Players come with Philips Zero Bright Dot™ Policy to guarantee optimal screen quality.With DivX® support, you are able to enjoy DivX® encoded videos in the comfort of your living room. The DivX® media format is an MPEG4-based video compression technol… More >>
Philips PET824 8.5-Inch Portable DVD / DivX Player
July 29th, 2010 at 3:03 am
Wanted a portable DivX and Burned DVD player, with focus on being able to entertain friends.
Frighteningly disappointing. Right out of the box, I put in a burned DVD. Player was having immense trouble playing just the menu! Kept making these horrible noises like scratching and grinding. Then before I even tried playing my movie, the player would spin down! Tried with DVD+ and DVD- same result. The manual is in like 30 languages and opens like a massive map, and when you finally find ENGLISH, you see that there is MINIMAL troubleshooting. Gave up on my Burned DVD’s.
Tried the DivX function. Put in a DVD loaded with pictures, avi, mpg, mov, and rm files.
1. It takes an annoyingly long time to scan the disc before showing the contents.
2. It won’t list any files it can’t play (like QuickTime and Real)
3. If you want to display a picture, it thinks it is a movie and puts it on screen for less than a second! And forget about slideshows!
4. If your TV is NTSC, then you have to Scroll through the Player’s menus etc. to change it over to PAL for any PAL movies!
5. It has trouble with large DivX files. Enough to make it unusable. If you need to fast-forward through a large part of the movie, forget it – it totally freezes up!
6. Worst but not least, the whole time, it kept making this insane, high pitch noise that sounded like an army of dog whistles in you ear, only more grating. It kept making the noise, then it would stop and start again after about 10 seconds and go for a long time. I knew this noise would never fly with ANY of my friends. I couldn’t take it and I have bad hearing and am a very tolerant person..lol!
This is what I found in about 1 hour of testing, and I wasn’t trying to test it at all! I just wanted to watch ANYTHING and it just so happened that the PET wasn’t able to make that happen. Imagine what you would find out if you REALLY tested it? I didn’t. I sent it back.
I have seen a better DivX player in a modded Xbox EASY! and MUCH cheaper too. All the problems I just discussed are NO PROBLEM on a modded Xbox. And that came out in 2001! The DivX player industry right now is basically non-existent. It is too experimental for real people to actually use it.
Bottom line: The only people who like this unit are rich, yuppie, loaded guys who just want every gadget and don’t plan on REALLY using it. ..or, they just got ripped off really bad on a portable DVD player for just playing storebought DVDs.
Rating: 1 / 5
July 29th, 2010 at 3:38 am
If you are looking for a portable dvd player then this the one you should nope not should you MUST buy.
Rating: 5 / 5
July 29th, 2010 at 4:25 am
The player is very good and am very satisfied with its function so far.
Rating: 5 / 5
July 29th, 2010 at 5:12 am
You can use this without the battery! and has a car charger too.I love this thing, the picture is good and big 8.5″ with different screen size settings.Simple is always good.4 stars because the battery is like quasimotos hump,its big(havent had time to comment on battery life).The sound is left to be desired,is that why they have 2 earphone jacks? hmm.I bought this 4 days ago and now its 20 bucks less
a great buy.well now it is!
Rating: 4 / 5
July 29th, 2010 at 6:21 am
This thing sounds like an airplane taking off as the disk spins. Also, the speakers are mounted along the front, not up by the screen as other (better designed) players have. Even though it’s a hassle, I’m sending this back.
Rating: 1 / 5