Philips DVD 580M - DVD player

Philips DVD 580M - DVD player

Product Description
Product Description:
Whether in homes, factories, offices, airports, or on the street, it's hard to imagine a place where Philips is absent. What Philips wants is to make your life and work easier - and more fun! And Philips continuously explores new ways to improve products and to offer innovative products to its consumers. Philips. "Let's Make Things Better".PRODUCT FEATURES: Component video output: highest quality video connection; High quality digital zoom on play and pause; Dolby Digital and DTS decoder built-in for amazing home theater sound quality; Digital coaxial and optical outputs: highest quality audio connection; Plays DVD-Video, VCD, SVCD, MP3-CD, CD-R, CD-RW, CD Audio and Picture CD; Karaoke; One stand for both horizontal / vertical positioning; Slot loader; 12 V compatible.

Philips DVD580M Lifestyle DVD Player
Average customer rating:

Easy to use and space saving

Fabulous!!

Started out great but...

Awesome DVD Player! Great Image & Sound with Composite Link!

Perfect for the van!!

Philips DVD580M Lifestyle DVD Player

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Plays DVD, VCD, MP3-CD, CD-RW, and CD audio

One stand for both horizontal or vertical positioning

Includes karaoke, Dolby Digital, and DTS decoder

Remote, zoom, 3D sound, screen saver

Component video outputs

ASIN: B00006HI4H

Product Description

Whether in homes, factories, offices, airports, or on the street, it's hard to imagine a place where Philips is absent. What Philips wants is to make your life and work easier - and more fun! And Philips continuously explores new ways to improve products and to offer innovative products to its consumers. Philips. "Let's Make Things Better".PRODUCT FEATURES: Component video output: highest quality video connection; High quality digital zoom on play and pause; Dolby Digital and DTS decoder built-in for amazing home theater sound quality; Digital coaxial and optical outputs: highest quality audio connection; Plays DVD-Video, VCD, SVCD, MP3-CD, CD-R, CD-RW, CD Audio and Picture CD; Karaoke; One stand for both horizontal / vertical positioning; Slot loader; 12 V compatible.

Customer Reviews:

Easy to use and space saving.......2007-01-03

I found this unit easy to use and space saving. The vertical position of the unit made it easy to find a place for. I have enjoyed this unit.

Fabulous!!.......2006-11-07

This is the second DVD580M player I own. This little machine plays formats that my $500 Sony didn't and it fits almost anywhere. Easy to use and plays a great picture. For the price, you can't beat it!!

Started out great but..........2006-10-28

Less than two months after receiving my new PHILLIPS DVD player, it is now sitting in my TRASH CAN! The PHILLIPS DVD player refused to eject the dvd, saying there was no disc inside. I called the 1-800 HELP number (YA RIGHT!) which came with my PHILLIPS DVD player for assistance and received NONE other than to offer to tell me where I could go to have my less than 2 month old PHILLIPS DVD player repaired at MY OWN COST! In my opinion, this shows that PHILLIPS does NOT stand behind their products, and this PHILLIPS DVD player was a piece of JUNK! I guess you get what you pay for.

Awesome DVD Player! Great Image & Sound with Composite Link!.......2006-05-06

I previously owned the Coby DVD-224 Compact DVD Player, and for some reason the Progressive Scan outputs on the Coby was not working with my HDTV Flat Panel LCD. So I needed something similar in size with Progressive Scan capabilities. Sadly, most high end Progressive Scan DVD players are large, flat and wide, and also extremely expensive.

I saw this one online for only $47.99 and spent some time deciding between this and the Memorex MVD2030 Vertical Progressive-Scan DVD Player ($79.99). I decided on this one since it was cheaper and I wanted something simple and easy.
After a week of use this Philips DVD580M Lifestyle DVD Player really impressed me. The sound and image outputs are very crisp, clean and smooth thanks to the progressive scan output. The controls and outputs are numerous and useful.
There is a full interactive menu for the player itself that enables the owner to adjust and tweak just about everything from channel output (sound), to color/video output schemes.
I thought the menu were a little too much above simplicity for my tastes (most users will only select the best sound and visual output once and never go back to these controls again).
The Remote Control was also tactile and easy to use compared to sony remotes. My only complaint was that the remote is almost as big as the player itself. And the remote has an extra 3 inches at the bottom with controls for what seems to be some other "phillips" devices and a Multichannel audio surround sound reciever. Unless you have an appropriate Phillips brand receiver/theater system the controls don't work. Also the extra outputs don't seem to work for anything other than phillips branded receievers. I tried to hook up to my Sony theater box and there was no resulting sound, I also tried my Altec Lansing Computer surround sound/sub woofer system and got the samething.

So unless you have a phillips brand or high end multi channel receiver the result is that you'll have a larger remote with extra buttons that do nothing and extra sound outputs on the back of the player that also do nothing. At any rate the normal L and R outputs provided really great sound thru my Samsung Flat panel LCD speakers, then again my TV already has really good speakers.
The player also the ability to play music DVD-Rs, CDs and CD-Rs as well as MP3s. You can also view JPEG picture files that are saved on a CD-R/CD-RW on your TV thru the player. It also creates a slideshow for presenting vacation photos, etc...

Finally my favorite feature is the way DVDs and CDs load & eject thru the slotted opening on the glass front. It is very cool-looking and easy to do, you'll wonder why DVD makers still make clumsly DVD trays instead of these smoothly functioning slots.

The player also came with a solid steel stand and like the player itself everything is built with really great craftmanship and quality (ABSOLUTELY no cheap plastics are used here). This is evident in the weight of the player. It's not heavy, but when you pick it up the firm wieght makes you know it's expensive and built with the best of materials.

I would recommend this product, but probably can't because I believe I may have bought the last one for sale anywhere at the moment. But if you see this player for sale get it and you will be very happy.

Perfect for the van!!.......2005-08-29

We have had this unit since December of 2002 - we use it at home and in the van on trips (we have 13 inch TV/VCR combo that we also take with) We set it on the floor in between the front seats and have no problem with skipping etc. This is a great little unit!!