Philips DVP-5160 Silver reviews, best price and deals

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This DVD player is a good all rounder.

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8.7 out of 10 based on 26 reviews.

Philips DVP-5160 Silver: DivX playback See full product description

Ease of use	8.5
Image quality	8.5
Sound quality	8.4
Design	8.2
Value for money	9.5
Overall rating	8.7

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Pete, Lincoln

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Looks great and performs so well. The USB port is why I bought it and it is brilliant - no more burning DVDs - download to a memory stick and pop it in the port and the quality is as good as a disc. The price!!
Bad points:: For the money - None.

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	7.0
Sound quality	7.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 29 Sep 2007

Confirmed purchaser

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: The ability to use a USB stick to play AVI / DIVx files is absolutely brilliant and the price is unbeatable.
Bad points:: Not being able to find the remote is a bit of an issue because the buttons on the player are very limited.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	7.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 20 Aug 2007

Confirmed purchaser

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: inexpensive, plays divx, simple menue
Bad points:: only manual drawer opening

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 16 Oct 2007

Confirmed purchaser

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Plays DivX well. Reads most types of media. USB port on the front for memory sticks. Looks nice.
Bad points:: Slow to startup. Auto-standbys after approx. 5 mins if a movie is paused - not a big problem for watching DVD's, but for DivX files, it means you have to manually FF to continue from where you left off. Doesn't show long filenames.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 15 Oct 2007

Confirmed purchaser

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Excellent Image
USB connection
DivX
Bad points:: Reviewer left no comment

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 13 Sep 2007

Bob, Birmingham

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Plays almost any type of video including standard DVD's with excellent quality. Simple to make player region free. Quick and easy operation. Software is easily updated via the USB connector with updates available from Phillips/third party programmers extending the players functions. Very low cost but quite good build quality.
Bad points:: No HDMI connector (Scart only), does not upscale DVD and cannot play High Def Divx/Xvids. USB connector only version 1.1. Poorly encoded Divx/Xvid video can sometimes stutter on playback.

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 12 Oct 2007

Hamish, Telford

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Good general performance/features representing good value for money.
Bad points:: Player response time from the remote is slow.
Seperate tray open/close button is missing from the remote control
Enclosure is larger than might seem necessary

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 06 Oct 2007

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Product Features

Playback formats	DVD-RW
As well as playing your DVDs or Blu-Rays, some devices can also play video in a variety of formats (DivX, WMA etc.) and audio in a variety of formats.
Playback formats	DVD-R
As well as playing your DVDs or Blu-Rays, some devices can also play video in a variety of formats (DivX, WMA etc.) and audio in a variety of formats.
Playback formats	DVD Plus RW
As well as playing your DVDs or Blu-Rays, some devices can also play video in a variety of formats (DivX, WMA etc.) and audio in a variety of formats.
Playback formats	DVD Plus R
As well as playing your DVDs or Blu-Rays, some devices can also play video in a variety of formats (DivX, WMA etc.) and audio in a variety of formats.
Playback formats	DivX
As well as playing your DVDs or Blu-Rays, some devices can also play video in a variety of formats (DivX, WMA etc.) and audio in a variety of formats.
Playback formats	Super Video CD
As well as playing your DVDs or Blu-Rays, some devices can also play video in a variety of formats (DivX, WMA etc.) and audio in a variety of formats.
Upscaling	No
Upscaling DVD players use video processing techniques to improve the quality of a standard definition image from a DVD to a near high definition (HD) image.
Connections	USB

Number of scart ports	1
Scart sockets are places where you can connect other devices to your TV. If you already have a DVD player, a VCR and a Playstation you might want to make sure your new TV has enough Scart interfaces so you don’t have to keep crawling round the back of the TV.
Release date	2007-07-11
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.
DTS decoder	No
DVI Port	No
DVI stands for Digital Visual Interface. Like VGA, DVI is used to connect laptops, desktops and other devices to HD TVs or monitors. You can buy a small adaptor to convert your digital DVI socket to an analogue VGA socket for use with older monitors if needed.
Blu-ray playback	No
A ‘Yes’ indicates that this device is able to play Blu Ray discs, which is the standard format for high definition (HD) video.

Also known as: Philips DVP5160

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