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Old 6th August 2008, 08:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
spodosaurus
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Re: Philips DVD player at Good Guys: can you FF/RW using the remotewith USB drive?

rob wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:43:39 +0800, spodosaurus
> <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On the last page of the most recent Good Guys catalogue is a $59 Philips
>> DVD player. Among other things it can play media files from USB drives.
>> I want to know if anyone has any experience with this player and if I
>> can use the remote to fast forward and rewind media being played from
>> the USB drive. I ask because I'd like to use it to watch my uni lectures
>> on, and I often need to fast forward or rewind to fill in details I
>> didn't register from other parts of the lecture. I'll be checking it out
>> with a usb drive this weekend, but any info first would be helpful -
>> particularly about MP4 files and quicktime files, two of the formats
>> that my uni is now using regularly.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Ari

>
> Is this a Philips DVP3252 player ? Have you tested it ?
>


I haven't been able to get in to test it, and it looks like I'm going to
scrap the plan and put the cash towards a Dell netbook when they're
released later this month.

Ari

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