Philips DVD953AT Progressive Scan DVD Player DVD Players
Philips DVD953AT Progressive Scan DVD Player DVD Players
USER REVIEWS
[Sep 06, 2002]
AVDirk
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
Picture quality and price.
Weakness:
Trays a little flimsy. Got this baby brand new on Ebay for $105, and it does a wonderful job. Movies on the progressive scan mode are flawless. Remote is a little busy, but quite easy after you play with it awhile. Similar Products Used: Replace a Panasonic that died after a year. |
[Feb 19, 2002]
qweds
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
decodes everything, and well. looks decent
Weakness:
maybe tray? or remote hello, was looking for a dvd player for quite some time, over christmas my friend bought a jvc s-40 or something like that, i was impressed except that it couldnt play MP3''s. Then another friend bought a Curtis with MP3. I could see that it was nice feature but that the Curtis wasnt much of a player overall. Anyway I was browsing on Ubid and saw it for less than half price and went with it. Overall I''ve been very happy, plays everything absoltely perfect. Audio and video are great, all be it I''m in a dorm witha 13" television. others have said the remote is crap, i wouldnt go that far, ive seen far better and worse. My only possible qualm is that the tray feels/sounds a little cheap when it ejects, but who knows. Also has the best MP3 file system ive seen to date. although i am running it in a dorm with a less that stellar television the rest of my equipment is halfway decent. im using a pair of Aura LST-627''s that are great and the matching center. The surrounds are crap, and the sub is an 8" Jensen, crap. All through a kenwood vr-410 However, when playing audio on the dvd it does sound supperior to my other sources (md, and pioneer file cd) |
[Dec 23, 2001]
Daniel
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
Excellent Picture. Many features. Variety of sound outputs.
Weakness:
Slow to load dvds. I got this as an open box special at an unheard of price for a progressive scan player. Hooked it up to my Mitsubishisi 65" HD monitor and was amazed. It's a good value even at its list price. Never bought Philips before but I'm pleasantly surprised. |
[Jan 03, 2002]
Eyrn
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
Progressive Scan, built-in Dolby 5.1 decoder, can play several different formats, multifunction remote
Weakness:
Slight remote control dyfunction at times This player has been working fine after 2 months of steady use. Since I have a pretty good stereo system that doesn't have Dolby decoding, I wanted a player that had a built-in decoder. I've combined this player with a $100 AudioSource surround system from Costco and I couldn't be more satisfied. Anyone who buys a DVD player without a surround hook-up is missing half the fun. Since I don't have a digital TV yet, I can't say anything about the Progressive Scan mode but the regular picture looks greats. Similar Products Used: First DVD player purchased |
[Nov 15, 2001]
greg herrman
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
excellent picture through progressive scan mode, and interlaced mode very good easy menues and good sound.
Weakness:
remote downright sucks I need a magnefying glass to see the buttons, also no dts available on this player for some reason. after spending a lengthy time shopping around for the right progressive scan player, i finally found one with the philips progressive player, i had tested sony, panasonic and jvc and i didn't even consider philips because of their continuous poor reliability rates. But their new wave of players had promised to be better than the previous models made by the company and this player even got the nod from home theatre magazine and was rated better than the other players tested by sony, jvc and others. And it is true this player looks absolutly amazing in progressive scan mode no color bleed or distortion from the picture and 3:2 pulldown is a huge advantage of this player. Similar Products Used: sony 700p, toshiba 2300 |