Philips DVP5140 Multiformat DVD Player with DivX, MP3, Windows Media Support
by Philips
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Customer Review: Great so far
Summary: 4 Stars
We bought this a few months ago to have a region-free DVD player (my husband is American but I'm from England a have more DVDs than he does). We followed the instructions from another comment and set it to Region '0' so it will play DVDs from any country and so far it works great. The remote is really nice and easy to use and the player looks really nice and is very thin (about 1 and a half inches high).
There are only 2 things negative to say:
1. The tray doesn't open quickly - You have to push the power button first, and then 'open', and even then you have to wait until it realizes there is nothing in there or you have to push it again and THEN it opens. Stupid.
2. Sometimes the remote isn't recognized so you have to keep pushing the button (gently obviously). We have it about 10ft from the DVD player but I wouldn't have though that would matter. Anyway, it can be annoying.
Overall, it's great to be able to play R1 and R2 DVDs and the quality is perfect and the player looks really nice. It's simple to use and I would definitely recommend it. We're thinking of buying another one for the future when this one finally packs in.
Customer Review: Plays NTSC and PAL DVDs
Summary: 5 Stars
This a GREAT and nice-looking DVD player. Lovely picture, terrific audio and many cool features.
Please be aware that Philips only makes one model of the DVP5140. It will play any NTSC/PAL DVD onto any PAL or NTSC TV. I know this beacuse I called them and asked before buying mine.
So - if you want to play DVDs from any region in any format on any TV, DO NOT BUY the "Multi Region Code Free DVD player" which costs $89.99. Simply search for "DVP5140" and get the standard player which costs $57.95 on Amazon and is identical to the so-called multi-region DVP5140.
To make it region code free follow these instruction:
1. Turn on the unit
2. Open the loading tray
3. Press the "Setup" button on the remote
4. Navigate to the "Preferences" page using the right arrow key
6. Press the down arrow once to enter the Preference page
5. Enter 138931 on the remote
6. You will now see the current region code displayed
7. Use the Up/Down arrow keys to select the region required or "0" for all regions
8. Press the "Play" button on the remote
Customer Review: Will play NTSC and PAL
Summary: 5 Stars
This a GREAT and nice-looking DVD player. Lovely picture, terrific audio and many cool features.
Please be aware that Philips only makes one model of the DVP5140. It will play any NTSC/PAL DVD onto any PAL or NTSC TV. I know this beacuse I called them and asked before buying mine.
So - if you want to play DVDs from any region in any format on any TV, DO NOT BUY the "Multi Region Code Free DVD player" which costs $89.99. Simply search for "DVP5140" and get the standard player which costs $57.95 on Amazon and is identical to the so-called multi-region DVP5140.
To make it region code free follow these instruction:
1. Turn on the unit
2. Open the loading tray
3. Press the "Setup" button on the remote
4. Navigate to the "Preferences" page using the right arrow key
6. Press the down arrow once to enter the Preference page
5. Enter 138931 on the remote
6. You will now see the current region code displayed
7. Use the Up/Down arrow keys to select the region required or "0" for all regions
8. Press the "Play" button on the remote
Customer Review: No more Philips for me
Summary: 1 Stars
We went through two Philips DVD players already. This one (DVP5140) and another DivX certified DVD player. For those who don't know, DivX certified DVD player lets you play files such as movies, etc, that you normally can play only on a computer.
Both Philips DVD players were great at first. They worked as advertised, played pretty much everything we through at them.
However, both failed after normal usage within six months and a year. They just stopped working altogether. The first one just died all of a sudden. No response whatsoever. The second one stopped reading discs, even DVD movie discs. Note that we got two of these and they each cost around $50 or $60. Neither one lasted for more than a year. We use it maybe at most a couple of hours a day. So if you get these things, they are just very bad quality. You'll be lucky if they work for more than a year for you. I bet you five dollars on it that it will die within a year.
So this will be the end of our relationship with Philips. That is what they say: fool me once, ... fool me twice..., fool me three times...
Customer Review: Slow, useless remote
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this based on the price and the positive reviews but feel I should warn people about some fundamental flaws with this player.
First, the remote is almost completely useless. It just plain doesn't work. Since only the most basic of controls are on the player itself, the remote functioning is quite important.
Next, if I can actually get the remote to do anything the unit takes forever to actually do it. Want to un-pause? Better go fire up the tea kettle because you'll be waiting a while.
Lastly, there seems to be a sleep function that I attempted to turn off in the preferences but it doesn't seem to care, it's tired and needs to sleep. This functionality is great in theory and if it worked like my computer does, great, but it never wakes up. Once this thing goes to sleep I have to power it off and back on again to get back to playing the DVD. Of course it doesn't remember where you were with a resume playback or anything so you have to go find it by navigating with the unresponsive remote to the chapter you left off at...
Horrible user experience design.