Philips DVP5140 Progressive Scan DVD Player, can play CD-R/W, DivX, DVD, DVD+R/W, DVD-R/W DVD-Video, MP3, MPEG4, Picture CDs, VCD, and SVCD. That's right, all of this in one small package for an incredibly reasonable price. All while delivering quality picture and audio performance. Component video output lets you connect this DVD player to your high-end home television set to optimize viewing quality.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great buy if you're desperate for overseas dvds
Comment: I just received the player today. The remote is crappy, as so many others have indicated, so it took me about 3 tries to get it coded region free as one of the reviewers has previously set forth. I put in my Region 3 dvd of L'Arc~en~Ciel Chronicles from Japan, and I'm now jumping for absolute joy! The picture is clear and looks like HD on my non-HDtv. It's a great buy. I just wish that I had waited to purchase. It has gone down a few bucks since my purchase on Friday.
Customer Rating: Summary: DVD Player
Comment: For the price, this DVD player is compact and produces a good quality picture and sound.
Customer Rating: Summary: Good purchase
Comment: This DVD player is as described. Plays everything, but is very slow to response and with a lousy remote control. But I knew it in advance from other people's reviews, so I don't complain. I think it is a very good purchase for the money.
Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome DVD player!
Comment: We just got this to replace our Toshiba DVD player that died. It is awesome!! It plays DIVX movies and Windows Media Players and it took 2 seconds to get it to play any region DVDs. Fantastic price for all these features. Plus it looks cool!
Customer Rating: Summary: Works as advertised; but for 18 months only!
Comment: This product worked as advertised for about 18 months. I was able to easily convert the unit to a multizone with a very easy sequence of numbers on the remote; and was then able to play European discs. Also, this unit plays Divx movies beautifully, very practical when downloading movies (commercial, copyright free or amateur movies available on the web in Divx or Xvid formats).
However after 18 months, I have to report that the unit has become very capricious and rejects most of my home copied DVD (I back up commercial movies - such as the Disney Treasure series - because I do not want the kids ruining the expensive original ones). At first I thought that I was making mistakes in my back-up routines, and/or that I had bought bad media. So I threw out good discs, one after the other; I also spent (more than the value of the DVD player itself!) in the search for the elusive perfect blank DVD (hint: try Verbatim discs, they still are the best).
However on a whim, I decided to test my back-up discs elsewhere and they played beautifully on cheapo units.
So after 18 months, basically the multiformat, "plays anything you can throw at it" claim that Philips makes in their marketing for this line of DVD players, has become moot at best. Searching the web has confirmed to me that I am not the only one to experience these malfunctions.
The only redeeming three features are that (1) downloaded movies still play when burned on decent quality discs (my problems are related to backed-up discs that keep all MPEG2 contents and menus of the original DVDs, not downloaded movies in MPEG4 formats); that (2) progressive scan gives beautiful results and (3) purchase price is very low, making the problems less heartbreaking.
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