No comments about Polaroid PDM-0743 - DVD player - portable - display: 7 in.

No comments about Polaroid PDV-0801A 8 Inch Portable DVD Player With Game Unit, PDV0801A 8".

No comments about Toshiba SD 5700 - DVD player - silver.

5 comments about Sylvania DVL150G DVD Player.

1. This dvd player didn't work at all. I tried to play a dvd in it and it kept saying disk error. I called the customer service and they said to return the dvd player. I had a feeling that this was going to happen. I just hate having to go through all that trouble.



2. So, I wasn't expecting to get a high end piece of electronics for the price this unit costs, but I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the picture that this DVD player provides. Great value for the money and I would recommend it. On a side note, the vendor ANTOnline is also recommended. Excellent communication and super fast shipment. I got the DVD player before any other part of my order. Great experience overall!



3. The player almost works as well as I would like, except that the still frame (pause) is poor with most DVDs I've viewed. You can adjust the pause setting to Auto, Frame, or Field. In theory, Field will stabilize the picture you're viewing, while Frame will give the best quality. In practice, with most DVDs I've watched none of the settings give you a good or a consistently stable picture. I've played DVDs that had a jittery or blurry freeze frame on this unit on my other, even cheaper, player, and that other player has no trouble with them.
   
   On the remote, the two menu buttons are right next to the arrow buttons used to select features or move the picture in zoom mode. Even after a month, I still hit Menu or top Menu when trying to my the picture up or down. On most DVDs hitting menu again will return to where the show was interrupted, but some don't allow that so one slip means going to the scene menu to find the chapter I was in, then fast forwarding until I get back to where I was.
   
   The default picture quality is good, at normal speed, but in the setup there's an option to select between three viewing styles. 4:3 letterbox style works fine. 16:9 seems work (I don't have a wide screen television). But 4:3 "Pan and Scan" which is supposed to "show a full height picture with the sides adjusted" doesn't seem to do anything at all, I select it and I'm still looking at the same size letterbox picture I started with.
   
   For The Price, I'm satisfied with this unit. It's sturdy, doesn't freeze or lock up on me, and has read even the worst discs that Netflix has sent me. If we were in a higher price range, the four stars I gave it would have gone down to two or three for reasons mentioned above.



4. Not the best player in the world, a little noisy, but with the TV volume turned up you can't hear it anyway. Also, the price is unbeatable.



5. I've had this DVD player for over a year now and it still works perfectly. It hasn't had any issues at all and was well worth the cost.

No comments about Boss Audio Dvd-4000 Portable DVD Player.

2 comments about Coby TF-DVD5005 5-Inch Portable DVD Player.

1. I have been dissapointed by TWO portable units so far... a Coby 3.5 inch I bought at Suncoast, the screen is horrible for subtitles and I'm a HUGE Anime and Japanese Music Video buff (although the unit played burned DVD's, and MP3's on CDR and DVDR) and a $200 10 inch Nortech that was permanently stuck in 16:9 and wouldn't play MP3's (which is stupid, cuz I only played $99 for the Coby and it does everything the Nortech won't!)
   
   So I am quite happy to finally see a portable that does MP3 discs, and has a relitively decent sized screen that isn't in crappy widescreen format. And for only $65 dollars? That's a steal. Now the real test will be if it plays my burned DVD's, considering most standalone home DVD players will play burns (I watched a burned DVD of "Moonchild," the movie with Gackt and Hyde in it, on a friend's older-than-the-hills home DVD unit) it probably will. I'm taking the Nortech back and I'm getting this!
   
   My idea for the perfect portable DVD player:
   
   1) Hasta have a good size screen that can show subtitles and ISN'T permanently stuck in 16:9 widescreen view ratio. (Sorry but this format is for THEATRICAL MOVIES, and i watch burns of TV SHOWS, Knight Rider just doesn't look right when everyone's head is smushed downward. It also helps if that LCD screen has a shield to keep kids from making "trails" on it.
   
   2) Should be able to display ID3 tags and scroll them. On alot of these DVD players they waste alot of screen space that could be used for more. My Rio Volt from 5 years ago does scrolling ID3 tags, and it was $50.
   
   3) Hasta be able to play burned DVD's with .SRT subtitles. And since Nero does a pretty good job of authoring DVD's, that shouldn't be an issue. Divx support would also be cool, but I guess that's asking a bit much.
   
   4) Treble and Bass adjustments! See, what I'd like to see is an all in one travel sized unit that is a hybrid of MP3 player and DVD player. Most HOME dvd units have bass and treble settings, so why isn't this on portables?



2. Great service, fast, wonderful product, will continue to buy from this seller. Ria Concetta

No comments about HDMI Single Disc DVD Player.

5 comments about Samsung DVD-R157 Tunerless DVD Recorder.

1. This is my first dvd recorder. It plays divx fine and I play dvds on the hdmi out to my hdtv. The best quality in is svideo. The best quality out is hdmi or svideo.
   The biggest problem is recording from the hd cable drv box- IF I use a svideo cable to the hdtv it will record any channel to dvd but if I have a hdmi cable plugged in to the hdtv the recorder won't record nothing- all the channels say copy protection. So basically I have to swap cables so that I can watch dvds in the best quality(hdmi) or if I want to record to dvd(svideo).
   It won't remove commercials during recording.
   What I have recorded, looks great and plays fine.



2. I bought this DVD to use with my HDTV. Image is great ! It upscales old dvds to 1080, very good. The recorder works very fine too, with very good quality when recording in 2 or 4 hours.
   For me the only problem is that I cannot unlock it to region free...



3. After recording a few DVDs it broke. It freezes in the middle of recording. Has all the features one may not use but it lacks reliability. Currently awaiting a replacement shipped to me. It may only be limited to one defective unit I received out of bad luck or may be a general problem. Will know after receiving and using the replacement unit.



4. The DV input broke. Send for repair got it fixed but broke again while buring DVDs. I get screen freez after few minutes of recording.
   
   Samsung is sending brand new uunit model DVD-R160. Will have to see how it works.



5. I could not have asked for anything better. Not only was it a savings, but it proved to be everything as advertised. Very pleased!

3 comments about Aiwa XDDW1 Portable DVD Player.

1. The screen is a little too small for adequate viewing. Due to it's panoramic size, viewing letterbox DVD's results in distortion of the image by lateral stretching. The unit has a large, heavy, cumbersome NiMH battery that doesn't last long enough to view two decent size movies. It may be worthwhile spending a little more to get a better unit.



2. the aforementioned criticismis true. I could not get through ONE movie on a plane let slone two. It works excellently as a home player, though and when plugged in can go to a friend's house and hook up easily. very easy to use.



3. I have been using this machine for about a year and am very pleased. Admittedly I have extra batteries so the duration of use problem does not exist for me. One good feature that few users have picked up on is that this machine outputs PAL as well as NTSC. I don't need this for output purposes since we don't use PAL TV's in this country, but the switches also affect the internal screen and allow a fullsize image to be seen without distortion. Thus for example if you use a DVD which is not set up for the 9x16 screen (most older movies aren't) and you try to watch it on the NTSC setting, used in this country, the image will not fully fill the screen. If you expand the image to fill the screen using the screen setting control, it will fill the screen but at a cost of some detail and a sort of screen door effect on the picture. Most players sold in this country have this problem. If you use the PAL and the setting switches on the AIWA, you can get a full width image with virtually no distortion. Thus you effectively get a bigger screen, since you get to use the full width of its 5.8 inches. I also appreciate the full size RCA audio outputs since they allow the use of better quality interconnects. Most other machines use a miniplug for this and there are few avaialble connectors and none of any quality.

5 comments about RCA DRC220N DVD Player.

1. This DVD player is junk. I have had several movies that will not play in it. I lived with that. Now it plays through perhaps 10 to 20 minutes of an audio CD and just shuts off mid-disc. RCA/Thomson customer service website and phone help is a joke. It is beyond the 3-month replacement warranty period so I must pay $50 charge to have it replaced, plus $10 or more to shipping. I will never buy anything made by Thomson again. They build poor quality products and then, even when problems are widespread, they do not stand behind them.



2. After reading the reviews for this DVD player, I decided to write a review because I have had the same problems as other reviewers. Certain DVDs play fine in this DVD player, yet others skip or have sound interruptions during the movie - since I bought a new DVD player, I have had no problems with these same DVDs at all!



3. I've had this DVD player for about a year now and have been completely satisfied with it. I don't have a fancy TV setup, nor surround sound, so to me "bells and whistles" aren't important... functionality and dependability are. And this player hasn't disappointed.
   
   Soon after buying the unit I DID have problems playing certain DVDs, for reasons I still don't understand. However, after checking the RCA customer service website, I went through their Troubleshooter procedure, and it was recommended to try "soft" resetting the unit, which is accomplished with an easy button combo between the remote and the unit itself. I tried... the result? Played the problem DVD's perfectly. These DVD's still occasionally do not read, but resetting the unit in this manner has worked every time.
   
   Some may see that as a hassle... and I guess in a way it is... but it happens VERY rarely, and is corrected in a matter of seconds (and hey, I've got to get up to put the DVD in anyways, so it's not like it's costing me extra energy).
   
   Other than that I have had no problems with it. DBD's play well (other than a couple odd balls), audio CD's play well (including self-made CD-R's), the remote is full-functioned and simple.
   
   All in all.... nice looking affordable, well-made, and dependable product.
   
   GOod stuff.



4. The remote is dedicated to the player. This means the remote that comes with it is the only one that will work on it. The salesman said that it is a digital remote and that is why. I know this because the remote stopped working and I can't get another to control it. This means that if I want to control my perfectly good dvd player I need to get a new dvd player. Yes, I am lazy and don't want to have to get up to do ANYTHING with the player, that is what the remote is for! Know this if you are looking at this dvd player.



5. This player has some good features like disc memory, but that falls short of it's downside: it won't play very many discs all the way through. Many discs will pause for a few seconds or stop playing. You have to rewind the player prior to the point of the pause then let it play. At that point it will play fine. That gets really annoying when you have to do it 3-4 times during a movie. Like others I thought that it was the disc, but after a trip home and playing some dvd's there then on this player I realized it was the player, not the discs.
   
   I purchased this one for about $80.00 and feel very ripped off. I just got a Memorex dvd player from Kmart for 35.00 and it beats the RCA player hands down. Avoid this one.