Support USB is nice. For $60 I wish it can record too.

I'm pretty sure this is the model I've seen at Target and a couple other locations for $49.99 off and on the last 2-3 weeks. The USB is cool; no s-video is the killer for me, since my HTS is about 6 years old now. I'll probably start upgrading bits in the next year, but need s-video for the time being.

When DVD players mention DivX support, will it also support Xvid?

#3, first reviewer on the 'Egg says this:

Plays both xvid and divx files that I tried.

So I'm guessing the answer to your question is yes.

Costco has DVP5985/37 for same price. This is just a normal price.

WHY! People if you have a high end screen, then you can utilize the TV's upconverting engine you don't need a DVD player to upconvert. All you need is a DVD player with HDMI out. That's it!

#6, how many DVD players do you know of that have HDMI out, do not upconvert, and are < $60? Meet all of those requirements and maybe you have a valid point. Otherwise, you are a complete baconeer.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to add that your player should have a USB port to connect an external drive and play almost every video format thrown at it. Good luck, fhag.

The USB is slow 1 When using DivX files on a flash drive, I get "stutter" when there is a lot of motion. No "stutter" when input is a DVD.

damn, fbt, you beat me to it.

eplus12, you're a baconeer.

you don't buy this unit for the upconverting. you buy it because it plays damn near every format and plays it via hdmi, or component, or composite.

i use it to play stuff from eztv. it works great.

People should be buying this for the USB and DivX support. Plays just about everything. Upconversion is just gravy (if you like gravy). I use the component output (my HDTV doesn't have HDMI) and the upconversion is only allowed over HDMI anyway. I don't think anyone has hacked the firmware for this model to allow upconversion over component. The only reason I'd want that anyway is for the HD JPEG viewing.

#8, you must have a crappy flash drive or a bad unit....
I've never seen any stutter when watching DivX, and I've tried some pretty high bitrate stuff. Now if you were trying to watch SuperBit VOBs over USB....

it does stutter a little bit if reading off my external wd mybook drive. and the lack of long file names is annoying.

i dont think it plays mkv, but i may be wrong. It didnt play an mkv i burned onto dvd.

Xbox 360 worked better with long name support.

I attached my external WD HD(500GB) via USB and it has not failed me yet. I do find a few divx/xvid files to be unplayable now and then but you can easily fix them with the tools from videohelp.com like mpeg4 modifier (or others)...also gspot is you're best friend.

good luck