Michael Lee's Train of Thought

There are lots of times where you start to collect various mpeg and avi files on your computer, and you'd like to display them on your television. The Philips DVP642 lets you play cds or dvds that have files in these formats directly -- which can make it far more convienient and space-effective than burning a DVD or VCD.

I haven't tried that much with it yet -- but so far, it looks to be very useful.