Small, compact, very easy to install. I previously had a Pioneer multi-regional DVD player which I had to format for Region 2, and it had lots of connections. It gave up the ghost after just three years... motor failed.

The Phillips has just one connection (not included, but bought on Amazon.com very inexpensive) and comes ready to play all regions. No programming necessary.

I'll stretch myself to find something wrong ... only one tiny unimportant thing ... the remote does not have an open-close button, so you have to press the button on the unit itself. No biggie.

The picture is brilliantly clear HD.
I'm loving this unit.

I wanted a region-free DVD player so I could watch foreign DVDs. I found this one on amazon which also had HDMI hookup with up-conversion, so I thought it would be the right one for my HDTV. It has really turned out to be the perfect little machine. Hooking it up was easy (for god's sake, don't pay $50 for an HDMI cable at Circuit City - get one from amazon for $5). Anyway this DVD player not only plays all DVD regions, but it plays pretty much anything you can burn to disc - MP3, WMA, JPG, AVI, MPG, MP4. It's tiny, but smart. The only slight annoyances are that it's a bit slow to load discs and it's always turning itself off if you've stopped the video for a few minutes - it doesn't lose your place, but you're constantly having to turn it back on. Worth it for the diversity of playback.

Great machine for the price.

Overall a decent player. Works as advertised: plays PAL, NTSC, multi-zone.

A couple of negative points:
- DivX navigation is slow. It takes forever to fast forward, pause/resume.
- It doesn't load some DivX movies - just hangs up. The same movie works fine on a PC. Maybe it's something to do with the size: the movies were 2+ GByte.

I've been wanting to play my region 2 dvds on a dvd player seamlessly. I got this item because it's cheap and I didn't need bells and whistle. It does a good job playing dvds. The dvd tray responds a little slow and the remote just has the basics except an eject disc button.

If you are a film addict and like to watch movies in their original languages... and sometimes you cannot find gems in our limited American film/DVD stores and resort to buy them abroad: Do not worry about region incompatibility with those useless codes!

This machine will play it all!

I love it, because besides playing any DVD in this planet, it also upsamples the ones you have to a sharper, crispier and more detailed, elegant image. Something you could only dream of if purchasing a more expensive player... or a Bluray disc player.

The beauty of it is precisely how beautiful it presents the moving picture in any system you have and at a meager price, or course! How could you go wrong buying a player like that?