CyberHome CH-LDV 712 7-Inch Portable Progressive-Scan DVD Player , Silver
Flimsy button and does not play some DVD's
BUYING ANY PORTABLE DVD PLAYER IS A REAL GAMBLE.  I RECOMMEND BUYING ONE FROM SOMEWHERE WHERE IT IS EASY TO RETURN IN CASE YOU HAVE PROBLEMS.    You should be able to find this at a much lower price.  Most stores sell it for around $129.    Buying a portable DVD player is a real gamble.  You might buy this and not have any problems at all.  Someone else might buy it and have all kinds of problems.  It is not just Cyberhome that has varying quality, it is all brands.  If you look up the reviews of other portable DVD players on Amazon, you will see that they all get positive and negative reviews.      This unit looks cool and has a very nice, sturdy metal case.  But, the latches are made of plastic and very flimsy.  The button that opens the door broke on my first unit, and I had to replace the unit.  On the new unit, the button looks just as weak and I would expect that it would break eventually if I kept it.    The biggest problem I had is that it would not play all my DVD's.  I am talking about standard, store-bought DVD's (not DVD-R's or RW's). For instance, it did not play Monsters, Inc.  I could not see anything wrong with the disc, and it played OK on all my other DVD players.  It would not play about 30% of my DVD's.    This problem with not playing certain DVD's happened on both units I had.  Monsters, Inc. would not play on first unit I had, or the replacement unit. So, I returned the unit and got my money back.  I will now take a gamble with some other brand.    The resolution and picture quality are not great.  I have not compared the picture quality of these portable DVD units, so I don't know if this is typical of all brands.  But, I was a little disappointed in the picture quality, when comparing it to the screens on airplanes or in cars.    The only other downside about this unit is that it does not have very many functions on the case, so you have to use the remote control if you want to do something like jump to the next chapter.      I bought this unit because it advertised the longest battery life of any unit I have seen.  It claims to get 4 and a half hours on one charge.  I didn't keep the unit long enough to time the actual length, but it is certainly well over 2 hours.    It comes with almost everything you would want, including a car charger and remote control.  If it played all my DVD's, it would be a pretty nice unit (as long as I was real careful with the buttons).