Philips DVP 642 DVD/DivX Player

Ooo, here’s something you don’t see every day. Philips made an actual DivX player for regular TVs.

“With the introduction of the DivX codec, movie buffs found a cheap an easy solution to back up their movie collections. The problem with Divx movies was if you wanted to play your Divx movies on your TV you had to go through tedious connections from the computer to your TV or else you were stuck watching them on your computer. All that has now changed with the introduction of Philips DVP642 DVD/DivX player. Not only does it play DVDs but Divx 3, 4, and 5 files along with VCD, SVCD and mp3s!”

Recovered from an Internet Archive snapshot of the InsaneTek front page.