Audiovox D1700 Portable DVD Player
Awful DVD player: Lousy Quality control??
Minus one star, actually. I am very disappointed w/ the D1700 I recently purchased. As reported before, my unit looks great on paper, the price was right, the picture and sound are fine (loud enough to be heard w/out needing a headset even in a noisy van), battery life seems to be w/in the 3 hour range, size and weight are quite up to par for the size of screen, and the available feature list is impressive for the price - but it just did NOT work, skipping, pixelizing, and freezing on every DVD I tried to play on it.<br />I tried 5 different DVDs, and 2 CDs, loading them as carefully as I can: I also tried them a) running on AC, b) running in the car off 12v DC, c) stand-alone, off the LiIon battery. At best, a DVD ran for 1 h 30 mn before going haywire, at worst it started skipping, pixelizing, and freezing right off the bat... 2 of the DVDs were brand new, one had been played once, the 4th one was a rental. All work fine on my \\"big\\" home player. Also, as reported, the Rewind and Fast Forward button on the deck are temperamental. The CD's worked fine, but the control pad was a headache, usually requiring many presses before fast-forwarding or skipping tracks.<br />I tried to let the unit cool off overnight and play a DVD, jumping directly to 3/4 of the movie: it misbehaved the same, so it's not overheating (not that this would be an excuse anyways.) My unit is a \\"REV 03\\", so it's not an issue of cutting teeth either.<br />7-30-02, a month later: got a replacement unit, which works _much_ better than the original, but still freezes out randomly on 1 out of 5 DVDs, and with the same mostly unusable keypad. Still not recommended.