Home Theater/HDTV/et al...

Well all the wal marts here are sold out, unless they are lying to me.... I let the telephone do the walking... :hehe:

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:Well all the wal marts here are sold out, unless they are lying to me.... I let the telephone do the walking... :hehe:

I'll do a check for you this weekend and see if they have anything here :D

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:Well all the wal marts here are sold out, unless they are lying to me.... I let the telephone do the walking... :hehe:

Bestbuy.com still list them at $79.99 with free shipping. Usually ships in 1-2 days business days accordingly to their site.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1077624500910&skuId=6373827&productCategoryId=cat03013&type=product

Amazon.com site has them for $69.99 with free shipping. Even though the site says "In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
". I order one a few weeks ago and it shipped out the next day.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000204SWE/qid=1091063272/br=1-1/ref=br_lf_etk_ce_av__1//002-3146531-2994409?v=glance&s=electronics&n=1065844


I have a couple of friends who also ordered from both sites and both of them had the Philips DVP642 ship out to them in 2 days and arrived at their homes 2 days after that.

eltinator wrote:

I'll do a check for you this weekend and see if they have anything here :D

Coo thanks, Im gonna do some more telephone shopping this saturday, Good Guys said they most likely will have some come in this weekend... Im hoping they have it...
@scorpion: Im never too sure about those wait in line things, I would rather buy in person... :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:That might be a good thing, Niko... How's the firmware support for the Philips? There's been a lot of griping about LiteOn's support, er, lack of it....

never had a problem i had to call support yet, *knocks on wooden head*. To sum it up: it's basically good machine except for:

1 - Lack of support for soft subs
2 - limited interface (remote)
3 - limited menu-manuverability (is that even a word? :P ) when you are JPN region mode.

I got my philips today!!... :woot: :metaldevil: Gotta plug it in and give it a whirl....

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:I got my philips today!!... :woot: :metaldevil: Gotta plug it in and give it a whirl....

hahaha congrats! Let me know how it goes because Im leaning toward that too

niko2x wrote:never had a problem i had to call support yet, *knocks on wooden head*. To sum it up: it's basically good machine except for:

1 - Lack of support for soft subs
2 - limited interface (remote)
3 - limited menu-manuverability (is that even a word? :P ) when you are JPN region mode.

Yeah, the remote for my LiteOn isn't very good either as are the options, but nothing's perfect. :)

We'll im pretty pleased with my player... It played everything I threw at it except for Trick 2.... hmm... I even did the region hack... I dunno, for those who have the Philips Dvp 642 and know how to get it to really be all regional please let me know...

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:We'll im pretty pleased with my player... It played everything I threw at it except for Trick 2.... hmm... I even did the region hack... I dunno, for those who have the Philips Dvp 642 and know how to get it to really be all regional please let me know...

If I play anime in divx in it, would the subs get cut off? Or is there a way to resize it since I dont want to encode anime onto DVDs and rather just watch it in divx :P

Everything plays fine in this bad boy... No problems except it cant handle Trick 2, Now if it could handle it, I would worship this dvd player..

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:Everything plays fine in this bad boy... No problems except it cant handle Trick 2, Now if it could handle it, I would worship this dvd player..

I don't think it's a region issue with Trick2... Does it play on any other machine? If not, maybe a bad disc?

bmwracer wrote:
I don't think it's a region issue with Trick2... Does it play on any other machine? If not, maybe a bad disc?

No way dude, I burned his too :P :hehe:

eltinator wrote:No way dude, I burned his too :P :hehe:

Gomen, Elt.

But did you play it on your player to check it out? A good burn doesn't necessarily mean a playable disc... :)

bmwracer wrote:
Gomen, Elt.

But did you play it on your player to check it out? A good burn doesn't necessarily mean a playable disc... :)

Hahaha yea I know what ya mean. I usually just grab a random disc out of a batch and test it but that doesn't mean everything else is perfect, hehehe :hehe:

Sometimes even the Pioneer burner will have it's bad day, lol. I should know exactly how dumb machinese are, I'm finishing up this 20 page report of my internship this summer which is due Monday and it's all about how my test proves that this robot needs major changes :beaten:

eltinator wrote:Hahaha yea I know what ya mean. I usually just grab a random disc out of a batch and test it but that doesn't mean everything else is perfect, hehehe :hehe:

Yup.

Sometimes even the Pioneer burner will have it's bad day, lol. I should know exactly how dumb machinese are, I'm finishing up this 20 page report of my internship this summer which is due Monday and it's all about how my test proves that this robot needs major changes :beaten:

Yow, 20 pages. Post-it sized? :hehe: :hehe:

Maybe NASA should talk to Honda about robots, since they built ASIMO. :)

bmwracer wrote:
Yow, 20 pages. Post-it sized? :hehe: :hehe:

Maybe NASA should talk to Honda about robots, since they built ASIMO. :)

AHAHAH, naw this is 8 by 11.5in size and NON double spaced! :beaten:

This is turning out to be longer than my research paper for english. I feel sorry for whoever reads this :hehe: :hehe:

eltinator wrote:I feel sorry for whoever reads this :hehe: :hehe:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Type it up in 6-point font. Single-spaced. :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Type it up in 6-point font. Single-spaced. :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

AHAHAHHA that'd be overkill :hehe:

Sorry if this has been brought up in sidebar :sweat: , but I wanted to start a thread with a couple questions:

Are DivX DVD Players becoming common place?

Does anyone recommend any models?

Is it even legal to have the format on a stand alone player?

Thanks in advance :sweat: -- because converting DivX2VCD [for example] to watch dramas on larger screens realy takes away from the quality :bleh: that the DivX format provides :mrgreen: .