HOLY CRAP it plays WMA's and DIVX?

Now I really wish I could get a refund on the $200 "Nortech 10 inch Portable DVD Player" my mother got for me at Sam's Club. Funny that my $99 3 inch Coby I got at Suncoast would outshine a $200 10 inch unit.

But anyways, yeah... I definately want this thing for Christmas!

I'm a -BIG- anime nut. I also watch alot of subtitled japanese music videos and I never can find a portable that shows the english subs correctly. I also hate having to spend hours converting my Divx files into a format acceptable enough for Nero, so being able to play Divx files would be really great. And WMA's? Hell yeah! I hate it when i'm making an MP3 DVD and I run into tracks that are in WMA and Nero starts nagging.

Also the cursor buttons are on the unit itself, not on some remote that's eventually gunna need a new battery. Now the real kicker would be if it actually allowed me to change to 4:3 TV ratio instead of stupid 16:9! Inuyasha just doesn't look right when everyone looks like they're all fat! Also, being able to scroll ID3 tag information like Winamp would also rock. How come nobody has thought of that for portables? My mother's APEX home DVD unit shows ID3 tags, so why the heck don't portables??? >.<

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This skips and has error codes on most DVDs - disappointed

I got a refurbished model. It skips and freezes on the movies I have tried - more so when plugged in than on batter power.

Also, you can't make it take up the whole screen - on older DVDs like the Hunt for Red October it only displays on a third of the screen right down the middle. You can zoom in but that cuts off the picture and the resolution looks bad.

The picture is very very good - but the huge silver case and speakers surrounding it and the black bars cause it to not be enjoyable to watch.

Some DVDs do take the whole screen - the newer ones. But I couldn't get Star Wars Revenge of the Sith - a brand new movie to play witout at least 10 pauses and checkered patterned freezes - the tech said to unplug the battery and AC power - wait three minutes and that would clear the error codes and that would fix it. I thought it did but later the errors returned.

Also, this WILL play DVD+R/+RW even though it says it only plays DVD-R/-RW. It actually plays movies recorded yourself without menus better than retail DVDs - seems to have fewer errors.

This player is very thick - has nice buttons with a glass like top over the buttons and a nice black outer finish - but it is just too big and old school to be cool.

I would have kept it anyway had it note freezed up so many times. If you do buy it - go for the new model not refurbished.



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Toshiba Portable DVD Player

I love this product. I would highly recommend it. Havent had a problem yet

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