I am looking for a spare DVD Player. A friend bought a Philips 642 a while ago and says it plays everything. Best Buy has the Philips DVP3040 on sale. Will it play mos of my copied/ backup movioes? What about Verbatim DL disks?
Videohelp.com's database says no, which is surprising because it's a newer model than the 642. Take that with a big grain of salt: I have a four-year-old player that plays homebrew DVDs, including DLs, just fine. The database just means nobody may have tested it.
I just bought a dvp3040/37 today from Best Buy. Xvid/Divx playback was really choppy. Haven't been able to find a firmware fix. Goes back to store tomorrow.
Look into the 5140, maybe the 5960. I understand that they are excellent players. I'm looking into the latter. FYI, read the first few user comments here: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=7063&Search=Search&#comments
