Philips PET824 8.5" Portable DVD / DivX Player
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • love this DVD player!
  • Great Portable DVD Player!!
  • Too noisy!
  • Junk
  • Wonderful idea - Buy from another company
Philips PET824 8.5" Portable DVD / DivX Player

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:
  • DivX 3.1, play Mpeg 4 video
  • 8.5" TFT, LCD Widescreen
  • Long Play, rechargeable battery, up to 6 hours play time
  • Plays virtually all CD and DVD formats
  • Come with Car adapter and Slim Remote control

ASIN: B000F3RI4I
Philips PET824 8.5" Portable DVD / DivX Player

From the Manufacturer

Enjoy highest-quality images that are free from annoying blank spots on the LCD screen. LCD displays commonly have imperfections, termed as 'bright dots' by the LCD industry. A limited number of bright dots were once considered an inevitable side effect of LCD mass production. With Philips' strict quality control procedures used in our Portable DVD Players, our LCD displays are produced with zero tolerance for bright dots. Select Portable DVD Players come with Philips Zero Bright Dot™ Policy to guarantee optimal screen quality.

With DivX® support, you are able to enjoy DivX® encoded videos in the comfort of your living room. The DivX® media format is an MPEG4-based video compression technology that enables you to save large files like movies, trailers and music videos on media like CD-R/RW, memory cards and DVD-video. DivX® CDs can be played back on selected DVD players, DVD Recorders and Home Theater Systems.

Other standard features include:
  • Contemporary precision design with piano-white top cover.
  • Watch movies with 16:9 widescreen format.
  • Share entertainment fun with dual headphone jacks.

Product Description

Immerse in movies on the ultra-chic PET824's 8.5" widescreen color LCD display, with Philips Zero Bright Dot to ensure optimal screen quality. Enjoy up to 6 hours* of DVDs, DivX, MPEG4 movies, and MP3/WMA-CD music - anytime, anywhere! Plays MP3/WMA-CD, CD and CD-RW music Share JPEG image files with Picture CD Car adapter and Remote Control Rechargeable lithium-ion battery plays up to 6 hours per charge Dual headphone jacks

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars love this DVD player!.......2007-12-14

Bought this DVD player after much research and just love it. The battery lasts forever (6 hours) and the picture is great.

5 out of 5 stars Great Portable DVD Player!!.......2007-12-06

Battery life is great! Other people said it will last 6 hours on one charge!
Audio is crisp and clear without head phones! Especially great with Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones!
Resolution is great from 2 feet away, but looks a little grainy up close.
I am very happy with the Philips 8.5 inch PET824 Portable DVD Player!
Has a external battery, but that doesn't bother me. Comes with car adapter and palm sized remote and the other audio/video cables. Has two head phone jacks on the side. I'd give it 10 out of 10 stars if I could!
Side Note: When first putting in a dvd it does make a loud spin up noise, but that is normal on all dvd players anyway. It will not interfere with normal operation of the device.

3 out of 5 stars Too noisy!.......2007-10-31

I bought one at Amazon. As soon as I put the DVD in, it started making funny noise, like it's about to break, so I've send it back and exchanged it for the same thing. The second one did the same thing. I am very disappointed! For $180 you'd think they would make it a bit quieter! I've owned a less expensive DVD player and it did not make this kind of noise. Also open button is getting stock a bit. Other then that its good, picture quality is good, and plays all my dvds and vcds, even the ones we brought from Europe.

1 out of 5 stars Junk.......2007-08-22

It broke in 5 months. Skips, and then stops and starts. It was never dropped, in fact, it was seldom moved. It just wore out. Used about 5 hours a week for 5 months, so after about 100 hours it failed.

As some have mentioned it is loud, but that never bothered me. I think a product should have more than 100 hours of life though.

3 out of 5 stars Wonderful idea - Buy from another company.......2007-08-13

The Good: Portable DVD players are absolutely wonderful. Finally a product that my retired mother can operate. A DVD player without a million buttons actually gets used.

Screen is bright. Controls are simple. You can choose the aspect ratio if you want, but that doesn't complicate normal operation. More advanced options are buried in menus, but are logically arranged. All retail DVDs play. So far, all our home-recorded 4.7GB DVDs play on this unit. Sound is OK for a quiet room, but much better when using earphones.

The Not-So-Good: Unit seems to be rather noisy. Lots of spin up clicks and whooshes. Battery is external and bolts on much like a laptop's expansion dock. (These pictures show the unit without battery.)

The Disappointing: After 5 or 6 months, the noise became excessive. It might take 60 seconds for a DVD to begin to play and the picture would freeze. A quick call to the support line and the tech determined that the unit was defective. He suggested the most likely method of repair would be to swap it out. I was given an RMA number for warranty service.


The Abysmal: There is no option to drop it off locally anywhere in the country; all repairs must be shipped (at your expense) to Siloam Spring, Arkansas. Unfortunately, Philips does not offer an option to ship the replacement immediately using a credit card as security, so I sent it off, thinking I'd have the unit back in 8 or 9 days.

Weeks after shipping, no replacement. A phone call to the 888 "repair status" line produced nothing more than (1) the date it was received and (2) it will take 10 to 15 business days for it to ship. There is no option to get a real shipment date. Philips will not notify you when your replacement ships, though they do invite you to call back after "10 to 15 business days" to see if it is ready for shipment. Add another 3-4 days for ground return shipping.

No amount of prodding would get any useful information other than it will ship from the repair depot, or that the corporate complaint PO Box is in Marietta GA. The polite, but scripted, customer reps could only offer that "we have to follow this process."

Given the potential for a portable device with mechanical parts to need servicing in its lifetime, I will skip Philips next time and look for a brand with local repair service or speedier and more customer-friendly manufacturer's repair.

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