Panasonic DVD-LS50 7-Inch Portable DVD Player
The Best Portable- Bar None!!!
Panasonic portable DVD players have the sharpest, clearest screens around! I bought a Toshiba to replace my old Panasonic, but what a piece of junk! The contrast was too high, and it skipped with the slightest bump! I saw the panasonic LS50 and was enamored. It plays DVDs, DVD-Rs that my Toshiba locks up on, MP3s in files (I like to put artists on one disc and then categorize them in seperate files by year of album release.) It plays DVD Ram, JPeg files (The Toshiba won't play any Jpegs over 300 dpi, this one does at least up to 600 dpi!,) and the flip screen is the coolest. I can finally watch a movie holding the player flat! Awesome! It has 2 headphone jacks, the 7\\" screen is crystal clear, No volume dial to move by accident- buttons are used, the only down side to this amazing player is that it doesn't offer a line in to use it as a monitor like my old Panasonic and Toshiba. (I use this feature when recording to my Panasonic DVD recorder.) The speakers sound great, as usual for Panasonic!The player is not heavy even with the battery. It is very hard to make this player skip! Panasonic is simply the best!!! The price is one third what I paid for my old 5 inch Panasonic years ago- what a steal!!!    Edit:01/25/06- last night I received the HO2 code! After reading some other complaints of the HO2/HO3 error codes, I decided to open it up and look. It seems that that Laser chassis is held onto the base of the unit by 3 rubber bushings on plastic pins. They are obviously there for shock buffering. When I opened the base, the laser assembly fell out! It was obviously loose (this after many, MANY uses and airplane flights, etc.) I pushed the assembly back onto the plastic pegs, and closed it up. It now works perfectly again!