Philips DVP3556/94 DVD Player

Key Features

Spending a lot of money at a theatre is a thing of the past with this Philips video player. The Philips DVP3556/94 is a DVD player that will change your experience of entertainment forever. This affordable video player has a slide-out tray that can play one CD or DVD at a time. With the video upsampling feature, this Philips DVP3556/94 ensures that your video or music is always of the best quality.

The Philips DVD player is powered by a 110 - 240 V power supply, with a frequency of 50/60 Hz. The Philips DVP3556/94 consumes less than 10 W of power on play mode, reducing it to less than 0.35 W on standby mode, saving you the cost of an expensive electricity bill.

Design

This Philips DVD video player weighs 1.45 kg and has a classically designed body. The sleek front panel hosts the power button on the extreme right. The Philips logo is in the middle of this front panel, flanked by the disc load tray on the right and the display screen on the left. The extreme left corner features a USB port, along with the eject and play/pause buttons, enhancing the sophisticated design of this Philips DVD player.

Video and Audio

The Philips DVD player supports both NTSC and PAL signal systems in playback, ensuring that CDs from most countries can be played on your video player. You can view videos and listen to music from CDs, MP3-CDs, MP-3 DVDs, VCDs and DVDs.

This DVP3556/94 employs a video digital to analog converter that functions at 12 bit, 108 MHz, delivering high quality video faithfully. You can enjoy your videos in 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, watching your videos the way the makers meant them to be. This Philips video player supports MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX 3.11, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x and DivX 6.0 formats.

The audio of your favorite movies and videos are delivered in Dolby Digital system, giving you the experience of sitting in a movie theatre in the comfort of your own living room. With the signal to noise ratio of greater than 90, you can be sure of hearing every sound recorded on your CDs. The frequency response range of 30 - 20000 Hz ensures that you are provided with sounds that encompass the total hearing range.

With the audio digital to analog converter that functions at 24 bit, 192 kHz, your music and audio tracks are delivered in original clarity. All music and other audio tracks are played in MP3, PCM and WMA file formats.

Connectivity and Features

The Philips DVP3556/94 has two USB 2.0 high speed ports that you can use to connect your video player to an external flash drive. You can even convert songs and other content from CDs to MP3 files and store them directly in a USB drive with the one-touch MP3 creation feature.

With digital coaxial out, composite video output, component video out and analog audio multi-channel out connections, you can connect this Philips DVD player to a TV and a home theatre system to improve your movie viewing experience.

The parental control and child lock feature ensures that you have full control on the content that your children can access with this Philips DVD video player. You can also view all your photographs in JPEG format from CDs with the Philips DVP3556/94 video player.

Buying Tips

When buying a DVD video player, a few features will make particular models stand out and make your decision to buy, easier. This Philips video player employs progressive scan, which further enhances the video upsampling feature, giving you videos that are true to the original quality.

This video player can also be connected to a 5.1 channel home theatre system, integrating your entire entertainment system with one device. This Philips video player also supports videos in DivX format, which is the popular format of videos downloaded from the internet. This increases the versatility of your DVD player.