Philips PET824 8.5 inch Portable DVD / DivX Player by Product Reviews Centre

Product Features

DivX 3.1, play Mpeg 4 video
8.5″ TFT, LCD Widescreen
Long Play, rechargeable battery, up to 6 hours play time
Plays virtually all CD and DVD formats
Come with Car adapter and Slim Remote control

Technical Details

Brand Name: Philips
Model: PET824/37
DVD Type: DVD player
audio_output_mode: Stereo Unknown modifier
form_factor: Portable Unknown modifier
dvd_media_load_type: Top-load Unknown modifier
Display Size: 8.5 inches
Width: 8.8 inches
Depth: 7 inches
Height: 1.3 inches
Weight: 2.2 pounds

Product Description

Enjoy highest-quality images that are free from annoying blank spots on the LCD screen. LCD displays commonly have imperfections, termed as ‘bright dots’ by the LCD industry. A limited number of bright dots were once considered an inevitable side effect of LCD mass production. With Philips’ strict quality control procedures used in our Portable DVD Players, our LCD displays are produced with zero tolerance for bright dots. Select Portable DVD Players come with Philips Zero Bright Dot™ Policy to guarantee optimal screen quality.With DivX® support, you are able to enjoy DivX® encoded videos in the comfort of your living room. The DivX® media format is an MPEG4-based video compression technology that enables you to save large files like movies, trailers and music videos on media like CD-R/RW, memory cards and DVD-video. DivX® CDs can be played back on selected DVD players, DVD Recorders and Home Theater Systems.

Other standard features include:

Contemporary precision design with piano-white top cover.
Watch movies with 16:9 widescreen format.
Share entertainment fun with dual headphone jacks.

Customer Reviews

Philips 8.5″ Portable DVD Player
Item came quickly. Packaged well and has all components. Does have a lot of scratches on the cover but the inside looks great. The picture is great but as other people have reviewed on amazon about this item, it is loud when you turn it on and while the dvd gets ready to play and while it’s turning off.

Great DivX player!
This is GREAT DivX player. Phillips seem to be the best at this. Yes it is a little noisy at startup but this is because it is reading COMPRESSED files (DivX format and Mpeg4) and is normal and goes away once the movie starts. I get 6 movies (DivX) on a standard DVD so this is why i choose this player. The battery life is AMAZING and the screen is great. The sound also seems fine to me. I wouldnt buy anything different for my DivX movies. It is also easy to unlock to region-free as i watch a lot of UK movies. Another excellent point is that it will play all my music files (mp3) on a DVD. Be careful as most players will not recognise mp3’s on a DVD only on CD so check before you buy! I had not realised this before. I now have around 100 of my CD’s in mp3 format and record them onto a single DVD so i never have to change the disc on a drive from East coast to West coast!(I work all over USA). I then plug the DVD player into my truck sound system and use the remote to change tracks etc. Great buy!

Loved it but….
I really loved this player however it doesnt play while charging, which isnt a great concern since it has a long battery durability, headphones are not included, not a great concern again since it has the jacks and you can purchase that, what bothered me the most is that IT DOESNT HAVE SKIP PROTECTION!!

Very Good Sturdy Player w/EVERYTHING in Box
Very good DVD player. We couldn’t go anywhere with our 2 kids without it. We did have 2 7-inch (PET724) models crap out eventually over probably 1.5-2 years time, but the kids are rough on them and accidents happen. These are very sturdy, and ours would even get splashed with water from time to time. We upgraded to the 8.5-inch (PET824) this time and it has held up the best so far. The box included EVERYTHING that you would ever need and then some. Everyone who sees our player(s) comment on the high quality construction and the shiny ivory-like exterior surface.

Massive Battery Life
Truly a great product, can be made multi region, is multi voltage, battery lasts 6+ hours (even on a plane), speakers OK.

Only downside is the lack of ability to reverse the screen so as to deny little fingers from presing buttons when the dvd is playing.

This was bought for use on long trips with young children..I am now a little too familiar with the jungle book