Philips DVD727 Review

A sleek ,thin DVD player from a world-renowned company, that ,alas, lets its products assemble (like many companies) in cheap-labor-countries like Indonesia,Mexico, Taiwan.Result: crystal clear performance , but only for region 4 DVD's! So any time you put in a region 1 (USA/Canada) DVD or RCE -
DVD(the dirty DVD secrets), you get the screen message:wrong region. Otherwise, it plays CD, CD-R, MP3 CD's crystal clear,but the region disappointment remains.Why not in-built Zone 1-6 playable decoder? Check out www.zonefreedvd.com/codefreedvd(and go for Sony or Toshiba)

The first person who reviewed it complained that it could only play DVD's from one region--that's only partially true. You have to enter the code 9 9 9 9 0 (slowly) with the tray open to get the DVD player to play DVD's from ALL regions. And no, it's not illegal. I'm not realy a videophile or audiophile, but the both the picture and the sound seem superb to me. You won't find another fine ntsc/pal all-region DVD player with many other features as this one.