DVD Player Review

I received the player for Christmas. I was extremely happy with the DVD player. The buttons are on the face of the player and are easy to locate. The screen size and picture quality is good. The sound quality is O.K. but is greatly improved with headphones.
The only problem that I had was that I received a defective power/re-charge cord. I called Phillips and they sent me one at no charge. It works perfectly well now.

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Phillips PET-805

I think that this player was well worth the money. It functions easily, the picture is good,and the sound is very good with the use of earphones, less so without. My one complaint is that it didn't come with a carrying case.

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Very good quality at a reasonable price

I have used this player on several airplane trips (my main reason for purchasing it) and find the display quite good. If you are playing a FS DVD it will automatically scale the format to WS, which is not a terrible issue, but it does tend to make faces a bit broader than they should be. Of course this is not an issue with WS DVDs.

I never use the built-in speakers, as it comes with two headphone jacks which allow you to hear excellent sound depending on the quality of your headphones. For my most recent trip I experimented with a low-cost pair of noise-reduction headphones and that made the whole experience less fatiguing as I didn't have to keep the volume up so high to drown out the engine noise. Occasionally the player would start then go back to the startup menu for no reason, but once engaged it played through the DVD completely. I bought this a year ago for $250 so the current lower price is a plus.

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