A strong piece

After watching the 5980 now have a few days in operation (connected via HDMI to a Panasonic LCD TV and 1080i via SPDIF coaxial to a digital amplifier Philips, also via scart on a Sony tube), I'll be even compared to Pioneer DV 400, to the following rating:

Positive

- Annual processing, tasteful appearance
- Fast, largely silent drive
- Very good error correction
- MTK chipset, which scaled up to 1080p
- Good HDMI image quality in DVD mode (576p and 1080i)
- Image quality in DivX mode (1080i), also pretty good
- DivX Ultra support
- Good RGB image
- Codefree switchable
- HD JPEGs be displayed natively
- Adaptive MPEG4 file recognition
- DTS passthrough and stereo downmix
- Very good and fast functioning USB input

Neutral

- Somewhat sluggish remote
- Halfway useful handbook
- Only available in black
- MPEG1 / 2 files play without a problem, but not WMV

Negative

- The housing is not very deep, but too wide
- No video pulldown setting possible
- 6-character-browser in USB mode
- No power separating off

In my mind, the Philips DVP-5980 is a really good and cheaper HDMI / USB player. When it comes to material appearance, browser, remote control and manual he can not keep up with the Pioneer DV-400 though, it will cost but a few euros less. If you want to play your MPEG1 / 2 files via USB, is almost not passing the 5980. The Zoran V8 competitors dominated not only these files insufficient, the Pioneer DV-400.