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This is a superb piece of kit. DVD playback is awesome and sound is crisp and clear through my external dolby digital system. The best bit is undoubtedly the ethernet port though. Tooled up with a netgear wge111 wireless ethernet bridge it streams all my mp3 and divx/xvid from my computer upstair flawlessly, even embedded dolby digital soundtracks.

One word of warning, stay away from 2.9.3 firmware as it is buggy (remote control randomly stops working and its not the batteries before anyone asks), stay with 2.8.2.

No need for no windows media centre PC with this kit, pure class.

I was tempted by reviews of this dvd player and a freinds recomendation about its DIVX capabilities so I bought one.

Upon receving it I was resonably pleased with it at first untill i went to connect it to the computer, which was far more difficult to do with the documentation that came with it, all i can really say was that the instructions where VERY poor, hardly explaining in lamemans terms how to set up the IP address DNS and the mask address.

After wasting nearly a whole day I gave up on it, and just used it as a normal dvd player. After afew months of using it the player started making a rattling noise and sometimes would not switch off when pressing the power button.

In all I feel i wasted my money on this dvd player

I bought this player in January and I am very pleased with it. The video quality on DVD playback is excellent. Better than the dedicated DVD players some of my friends have.
But this is more than just a DVD player. It plays DivX 3.11, 4, 5.x, XviD, VCD, SVCD, MPG, MP3 and Ogg vorbis Audio. These formats can be played from a standard CD or DVD or from the built in 80GB hard disc on which you can store your files. You can also record your own CDs and DVDs on a computer and play them on the KISS. It also has an ethernet port allowing you to connect the player to your home network and there is Web Radio if you have a broadband connection.
There's also an excellent English language forum which gives you plenty of information about the player and firmware upgrades. See www.gooddvdstuff.com.
In summary an excellent, flexible player. I'm glad I bought one.

I have given the DP508 4 stars rather than 5 since it is not very user freindly, but once you get to know it, it is a great 5 star product.
I have had a DP508 since Christmas 03. I soon found that the firmware was already out of date. Once updated it would actually do all the things I expected it to do.
It plays DVD's, CDRom with avi and mp3 files, and audio CD's.
I have my player networked to my home PC's and can play all the mp3's on my pc's hard drive from my lounge. The built in 80 Gbyte hard disc means I can store load of files on the player and access them without the PC being on.
As I siad the player takes some getting used to and the menu structure could be simpler to use, but it is a great home network media player.

Nice looking player, great features but it is full of bugs and will not work with anything like the reliability of a normal DVD player (it is a Linux PC in a DVD case after all). The quality of the DVD playback is stunning and so is the webradio (but any PC can do that for you) but its no chuffin good if it does not play more than ten minutes without pausing, fast forwarding or ejecting the DVD randomly. There have been three firmware updates in the last three months (so you can guess at the number of problems!) Great player, shame it's full of bugs! Buy a DP-500 as they are far more reliable.