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KiSS DP-500 Progressive-Scan DVD Player with Ethernet Connection

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Great product

(5 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Apr 16, 2004 (New York, NY United States)

This player plays almost any movie file and must have for anyone who is into Divx movies. Extremely flexible device with tremendous potential. Requires some effort to operate and maintain if you want to get more out of this box, i.e. keep the firmware up to date. With Ethernet connection you can play your movies right off the computer hard drive - no more CD burning.

29 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

Nice idea, but not a good consumer product

(1 out of 5) by Jeff Mock on Oct 5, 2003 (San Francisco, CA United States)

It's a nice idea, but unless you've really got to play divx videos today, you're better off waiting.

The current software (2.7.1) has many many bugs. It's easy to crash the box, and the user interface has enough terrible qualities that it's really not usable as a consumer device.

The display continuously proclaims "state of the art dvd and ethernet player", and evidently it will continue to advertise this long after it is "state of the art". It's a really annoying ad to continuously scroll across my livingroom, so I leave the device powered-off most of the time.

There are a couple of chat boards on the internet about this device. One maintains a list of current bugs that is quite long and inexcusable for a consumer device. Read the latest before purchasing.

On the bright side, the firmware is reasonably easy to upgrade and they seem to do new releases fairly often. With good software, this could be a nice device.