The perfect portable.

For it's size, a great clear picture and a super light weight remote. I am happy I bought it. Also handy for power outages.

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Great picture, sound and lightweight too!

This is a great product, I was looking for a portable DVD player since I travel all the time and this was a fantastic buy. It's really lightweight and I love the tablet style. This is also a very affordable option as compared to other brands out there.

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DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OF MONEY ON THIS LET-DOWN

I was looking for a DVD player for my daughter that could be used both on her little TV in her room and on the road for trips. I liked the design of this item being a tablet style instead of a clam-shell style portable player. I had seen this Coby dvd player on other websites and, like here, it had a wide variance of reviews. Unfortunately you will have to understand that many of the positive reviews are from people who have either not had the device for very long, or have not used it very much. Since I saw that there seemed to be an issue with the devices breaking after a period of use, I decided to run mine for a "burn in" period. This meant I was going to use the heck out of it in every possible way that it would be used right off the bat and see how reliable it was. So I used it every day running two or three movies per day (on and off the battery) through it for a week and a half (I figured this would simulate several months of normal travel movie watching). I treated it with care but I played lots of dvds on it. For $100 I felt that it should be able to perform its primary function of playing dvds without breaking as long as I treated it nicely in every other way. I used commercial dvds and my own burned dvds of stuff I had created. I used it hooked to my daughters bedroom TV and while riding in the car attached to the supplied headrest holder that comes with it. It has a fantastic picture quality and the built in speakers actually sound pretty good. It comes with two sets of back-of-the-head headphones that are good too. It worked perfectly for that week and a half. Then the problems started to crop up. The same problems all of the other reviews mentioned started to happen. First I noticed that the battery was getting really really hot (not good considering what happened to the Dell Laptop batteries recently). Then it stopped playing my homemade DVDs. Then finally it stopped playing my commercial bought DVDs as well. From the get-go the front panel toggle button didn't work right to scroll through the dvd menus so I was using the supplied remote control to go through menus on all of the dvds, but I could live with that. Final Word: Don't waste your time or money on this item. The device will work great for a while then will die on you. Since it's portable it'll probably die on you at the worse time (i.e. a trip). I sent mine back and got a refund. I had even bought the 2 year Amazon warranty just in case (didn't even make it past the two week mark before it broke so the 2yr warranty wasn't even needed by far). Coby's reputation for being cheap and shoddy was proven to me with this somewhat high dollar item. I won't buy any of their products again. Buyers beware of good reviews on this item, they probably have not had theirs long enough or used it enough to have it break on them yet. It's great out of the box but soon dies a frustrating death. I gave it more than one star only because it does have an excellent picture quality, while it lasts. Unfortunately you get what you pay for. I'll end up buying a more expensive, reliable brand-name dvd player with a track record of better quality. Sorry to say that going on-the-cheap in this case is not a wise buy. You'll only be dissappointed in the end.

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