Philips All Multi Region Zone Free PAL/NTSC DVD Player HDMI 1080p (Black)

Item seems to work as advertised with non-US disks. I will note that Amazon's packaging was a bit lazy, they should have used a box for this (as with any other electronics). Fortunately the item wasn't damaged in shipping.The dimensions listed on the seller's page seemed wildly incorrect with a listed height of 7", I am assuming these are for the box it comes in. The dimensions of the actual product are a much more reasonable 7 5/8" x 8 3/4" x 2", Depth x Length x Height. Nice and compact.For the huge nerds like me who plan to route the HDMI out through a 4K upscaler, be advised that the player outputs HDCP.

Exactly as described: it plays every different region DVD & CD that I've tried. The remote is large enough to hold & press comfortably but uncluttered & intuitive in design.2 minor quirks: the timer starts again at 0:00 every time the chapter changes while playing DVDs, & if the player's left on pause too long it defaults to the Philips opening screen which is fine. But then, when playback begins again, it automatically adds subtitles. A bit quirky but easy to fix: press the 'subtitles' button on the lower-left of the remote until 'off' appears & you're set.Yes. it has a foreign plug. Yes, an adapter that works perfectly is included. So what?Whichever deck you choose, absolutely avoid the Panasonic DVD-S700 HDMI 1080P Up-Converting All Multi Region Code Zone Free PAL/NTSC DVD Player.

Bought this 7 months ago to replace a Sony DVD player that quit. We were watching the complete works of a director from a combination of VHS, dvd and streaming. It played a couple DVDs so I thought it was fine. We don’t watch DVDs much but I just tried to watch a commercial DVD with a BBC series that was PAL formatted and it would play the menu but not the episodes. I specifically bought this because it claims to be zone free. Then I put in an older NTSC disc and got a message that it was not formatted to play in this region. WTF? Then I put another NTSC disc in and it did play. Nothing in the manual about this sort of problem. Not worth it to try to problem shoot. What a piece of crap. I will find something else and never buy Philips again.

Good item

This works OK, and did the job for me in terms of playing DVDs from outside the USA. It is acceptable for the price, which is quite low. the three issues I had were: 1) It does not display any time line when you pause the DVD so you have no idea how much time left, or what timestamp you want to come back to if you want to stop a movie and come back to finish it a different day; 2) It did not come with an HDMI cable, as advertised, so I had to go get another one; 3) I did have a DVD that had trouble playing, but I can't know for sure if it's the DVD itself, or the player. It's probably the DVD that was scratched since other DVDs played normally.

Just what I needed to watch my British (PAL) DVDs. The user manual only specifies that it works with Region 3 (Asia), but in practice it really does appear to be region-free as advertised. I have it hooked up to an American TV with a regular old HDMI cable and, after adjusting the DVD player's default aspect ratio to suit my screen, it looks great. It also comes with a European-to-US plug adapter already attached; works fine so far but I'll probably replace it with a less cheap-looking adapter to protect my precious electronics. The remote control and user interface are rather cheap-looking as well, but if you're after utility and not high-end entertainment-center showboating, then this is a worthwhile purchase.

Set up was easy just plug and play. I have watched USA and UK dvd's so far and works perfectly. This is my 2nd Phillips. The 1st worked several years then the eject quit. Still I trusted this brand.

I bought this specifically for the USB interface. But the menu gets stuck in a loop when it tries to read the thumb drive. This could certainly be an issue with the drive. But I've tried multiple USB devices. And I get the same reults.