Coby TF-DVD7100 Portable DVD Player
If you only want to use it for a week... it's fine
I saw all the great reviews and decided to get the Coby.  At first, it was great.  The sound is not that wonderful on just the speakers alone, even though it's better than the other unit I had by another maker.  Loud enough, just sort of tinny.  With even cheapie headphones though, you get great sound.      Horrible battery life... only 1 hour, not the 4 hours I was lead to believe I would receive.    I burned-it-in for 24 hours when I first got it and then started taking it to work with me to watch during lunch.  I've gotten a total of 2 hours of play out of this unit.  It worked during 2 lunch hours then it would stick repeatedly and I couldn't get it to play past that point.  I tested the DVD on my PC and it played fine, so it's not the DVD.  Put a different DVD in and now it won't recognize any DVD and the screen goes black.    Amazon is sending me another one, but I'm concerned that it is going to just be a waste of time.  I bought the extended warranty, but I doubt I will ever make it into the extended period.  I see there are now new reviews showing that others are having the same types of problems with their units, so I'm not holding out much hope that I will receive a satisfactory unit from Coby.    Amazon's customer service is great!!  When I originally reported problems, it was for the short battery life.  The very next day, the unit fell apart, but Amazon had already agreed to send me a new one.    I'm wondering how many of the 5-star reviewers have now also turned sour on their units?  How many of these units are really working now??    Also, mine did not play jpeg CD's or any of the other media like that exceptionally long review (the one you see first in this review section) says it will.  I was limited to DVDs only and no DVD-Rs.  To be fair, the company doesn't say it will play them, I was operating off that other review.  His may have done everything out there, but don't count on yours doing it... it may or may not.    ************  December 30 - Second unit is a piece of junk too, it played for 1 hour and then stuck.  Amazon told me today that they are having tons of complaints on this unit and to just return it for a refund and they won't be sending any more out.  I see they are still for sale though.  Avoid it, it's junk.    ************  Amazon did send out another unit, even though they said that they would not.  I was tempted to refuse the shipment, but thought... what the heck!  Took it out of the box and put in a DVD.  The laser started shuddering back and forth and wouldn't stop.  Turned it off and tried again.  Got it to do the intro on the DVD, but when I told it to play, the screen went dark.  Sporadic sound.  Tried to stop it but the disc just kept on spinning.  I had to turn the unit completely off to make it stop spinning.  Man, this thing just goes from bad to worse.  I'm done with Coby.  3 units within 30 days and I maybe got 3 hours of total play out of them.