Polaroid PDV-0700 7" Portable DVD Player
Not just a bad product... it's a SCAM!
I've wanted one of these things ever since they've been on the market so I finally bought one for myself, for my birthday.  I watched a snipit of my Family Guy DVD to test it out and it looked good.  I've watched a couple of DVDs, mostly special feature discs and the second half of Festival Express, in the two months that I've had it.  Mostly it stayed in it's protective case, which oddly enough is quite well put together.      Yesterday I put a Baby Einstein DVD in the player for my daughter and there was no color in the screen and it had a washed out look to boot.  I tried unpluging it and pluging it back in, as the troubleshooting page in the manual says, to no avail.  I tried several DVDs and no DVD.  No change.  The screen is washed out and black and white.      The sound still works fine if that makes a difference.    I called customer service this morning.  I didn't have the receipt.  The rep told me that in that case they could only go on that date of manufacture, which was June 2004 (4 months ago) and is outside of the 90-day parts and labor warranty.      I've got a $200 paper weight.  The sound working fine, notwithstanding.    I took good, no great, care of this machine.  When you get the kinds of failures that appear in these comments, it's part of the design.  This is not just a bad product.  It may be stamped with the Polaroid name (and to tell the truth that's a big part of the reason for buying this one) but the name is just licensed to whoever made it.  Regardless of that fact, I will never touch anything stamped with Polaroid's name again.    .