Panasonic DVD-LS90 9-Inch Portable DVD Player
Product should be recalled.
I really enjoyed this product as long as it worked. It has the longest battery life of up to 6 hours. The folding display is a very nice feature on airplanes. The picture quality was better than similarly priced products.     Here is the problem. As several reviewers have mentioned, in a year, more or less, the player stops working and will display the dreaded \\"HO3\\" error. This seems to be due to the laser lamp getting stuck in position on the rotating shaft. Please read the reviews on the Panasonic LS50. Almost every reviewer for that model received the \\"HO3\\" error, and Panasonic decided to do nothing, they simply carried the problem now into this product. This is a manufacturing quality issue, and the product should be recalled. There is no reason for consumers to shell out extra money for warranties.      For the people who already own the device, I saw a solution posted for the HO3 error on the internet by a user named Hossan, and it worked after I tried it myself. All you need is a small Phillips screwdriver. Remove all 12 screws from the back of the player. After removing the back cover, you will see the unit with the laser lamp mounted on rubber suspensions. Carefully lift the unit off the suspensions. Turn the unit around carefully so that the cables don't come off. Close to the servo motor, you will see a small black thumb wheel. Turn it, and the laser lamp should move along the rotating shaft. Turn the thumb wheel, so that laser lamp moves away from the center towards the edge. That should release it from the stuck position. All this takes maybe 15 minutes. Don't let some service guy talk you into shelling out a hundred or more dollars for repairs.    Considering that otherwise this is a wonderful product, the best think  Panasonic could do, is to admit there is a problem and recall the product, or at minimum provide a free repair service. Instead it is just sitting on the fence. Something is wrong if the management of a company does not care anymore aboutits reputation. There are already a lot of irate customers.