Re: Philips DVP642 DVD player not starting up



On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:43:08 -0400, "Ricki" <pertnoy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>The DVP642 is a divx player and is worth fixing, most DVD players won`t
>play divx, most likely power supply problem. find another dvp642 and swap
>power supplies very easy, even if you can`t fix it you should keep it, a
>very common player easy to find parts for.

**It also does a nice job of converting PAL to NTSC and is easily
remote hacked to change the region code. I usually use a good DVD
player for regular DVDs. I only use any of my cheapo PAL/NTSC players
for foreign discs to avoid the extra mileage.

kaboomie
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