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Philips DVP 3266 DVD player
By: Siddharth Bhatia   |   Aug 25, 2008
  • 3.5
Color accuracy
Reasonable price
Few artifacts

I still get lots of queries about DVD players. The demand is clearly alive and kicking, even as Blu-ray is slowly but surely spreading its wings. As of now DVD rentals are still very big, and so are DVD players, thus I decided to do an ‘old fashioned’ slim DVD player for review purposes. Philips have many models, so I called for the DVP 3266. You can say—it's got the spotlight.

Design
The unit is a lightweight rectangular box, with a very simple and straight up design. The finish for the chassis is brushed aluminum, with a black reflective plastic faceplate. The tray is camouflaged with the same finish and sits flush in the left side, while the LED display is on the right. Leftmost bears the Philips logo, while the USB slot is located on the far east of the front panel. The bottom strip is metallic again and has a couple of uniformly colored thin buttons for power on/off, eject and navigation.

The back panel has a patch of i/o a the left end, which consist of Composite video and component video outs, analog 5.1 audio out and coaxial (digital) audio out. The power cord is attached, and along with the unit we get a 3 way RCA cord, which can be used to make the component video connection.

Features
There is no HDMI, thus no HD up scaling experiments, which actually is a good breather. I will check component connection and its quirks with color accuracy, video signal bandwidth and other fun analog video attributes. The complete specification are in the image above, though I will tell you what is not there. It cannot play MPEG4 part 10 which includes H.264 or AVC coded videos, and mainly only AVI/MPG containers work. Thus DivX/Xvid, and off course DVDS, VCDS, audio CDs and MP3s work.


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Saurabh.. can u tell me where from did u buy the Vox DVD from? Which electronic store is this available in Bangalore? is this avl online also? too many Qs.. :-)
Anil @ Sep 12, 2008
Another thing tested successfully by me. It works with my portable western digital 160Gb hard drive too, through USB. The divX files or MP3's. All features including forwarding etc. I tried on 3166 but it did not work, settled for a 3266.
Abhinav @ Aug 27, 2008
Guys just check the Vox Dvd Players. I am using VX1700 HDMI model and its just awesome. It has every feature you want and performace is also very good. And when it comes to pricing it also blow every other players. I bought for Rs.2500 only and the other non HDMI model VX1500 is for just only Rs.2000. It have all the features thats coming out in DVD players.
Saurabh @ Aug 25, 2008
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