Sony DVP-FX1 Portable DVD Player
my favorite toy
Listening to cd's is awesome with the surround sound switch (especially with sony's &quot;studio monitor&quot; headphones which are excellent), and I thought the picture was really good EXCEPT when watching a movie that is NOT enhanced for wide screen. This causes the picture to become blurred and unwatchable as you adjust the &quot;screen mode&quot; to zoom in to spread the information out to fill the screen.<br /> Watching 4:3 (standard TV size) pictures is a breeze because there are &quot;black bars&quot; are on the sides of the picture instead of the incredibly irritating &quot;gray bars&quot; that many 16:9 (wide screen) TV makers have opted for.<br /> I give this product 4 stars mainly because of the speakers. They're very easy to blow if your watching a movie scene that is quiet and then suddenly loud. If this happens, you will notice a slight puncture wound in at least one of your speakers. A fault that I've noticed in more than one of my sony products that really do have the best images possible, but are not-so-hot when it comes to the speakers attached to them. I usually listen with headphones anyway.<br /> Plane trips are one long movie now, they could put me in a piece of luggage with this thing and I wouldn't care.