Everything good. Dims the screen after a few minutes of still frame. Looks good. Great 5.1 sound.

Takes a while to respond to front panel commands such as eject. Sometimes the wrong action happens after a remote command. I don't need the Karaoke features. No DTS.

The PHILIPS DVD955 was purchased because there was a threat that in Oct. 2001 the zoning would be enforced and zone free players would disappear. There was not a lot of choice back a year or so ago, but I do not regret paying the $1400 for a superb machine. I have not bought or rented a video that it wouldn't play. I have a PHILIPS Rear Projection 48" TV which gives a high resolution to the picture. I have no problems with sub titles, languages or any other features and enjoy hours a week using it.

Similar Products Used:

None. Have seen others and they are all inferior.

Upgradeable firmware & excellent conectivity options.

Everything else.

The player provided approx 6-8 months of excellent service at which point it became very tempramental, playing certain discs one day then not the next! After sending the machine for servicing, I was told that cigarette smoke caused the problems (my cd & vcr are 10 years old with no such problems) so find this hard to believe. I have tried to flash the players firmware and thinking it may be a software problem but this has done nothing to help. Unfortunately this dvd player has put me off any future Philips products as its unrelibility has been an ongoing problem. I have frieds with other Philips players (different models) and they inform me of similar problems. All in all a rather sad machine.

All, image quality, sound, compatibility, conexions...

NONE

This DVD-player is superb. The quality of the image is outstanding, the decompression of the image data is simply perfect. I have a lot of movies in DVD format and if you can see GLADIATOR on the DVD-955 from Philips you´ll understand what i'm saying (of course i supossed that you have a great TV).
The sound is also fantastic (DTS & DD 5.1)