Coby TF-DVD7050 7-Inch TFT Portable Tablet-Style Portable DVD Player
Great for the money, but a few flaws
We're getting ready to go on a long drive this Summer, so after reading the reviews I bought this little unit for my daughter to watch in the back seat. <br /> <br />Its a nice unit and for the price, if you're looking for this form factor, you really can't beat it. However, the unit does have its flaws. Let me list the pros and cons. <br /> <br />Pros: It's a nicely built unit. Feels sturdy. The inclusion of a headphone jack on either side of the unit was a really smart idea. Screen clarity is acceptable for kids. A big plus is that the box includes everything that is needed to hook the unit up in your car and hang it off the headrest (it even includes two sets of headphones!). Also, it's cheap enough that if you've got two kids you can buy one for each of them and avoid them fighting over which DVD to watch. <br /> <br />Cons: The screen, while sure to be acceptable to kids, is not really up to snuff if you're a serious film buff. If I were buying a unit for myself, I'd go for the unit with the best screen resolution I could find. That's not to say that this screen is awful. I've seen much worse. I *could* stand to watch a movie on this, and probably will every now and then. But I'll still be taking my clamshell style Panasonic DVD player on the airplane when I'm travelling alone. <br /> <br />Another con had to do with the car power adapter: it's just barely long enough. It's a coiled chord, and in our Mazda millenia, if you stretch it then it will barely plug in to the DVD player. But I don't feel comfortable with the amount of tension that places on the power jack. I'll be buying a cigarette lighter extension chord before taking our trip. Another problem is that you cannot open up the DVD player when it's inside its mounting bag. So if you want to switch DVDs you've got to pull the unit out first. And finally, the mounting bag straps on to the headrest of the front seats, but the plastic clips wind up right in the middle of the headrest on the other side. Thismight prove annoying to front seat passengers, though I haven't tried it out yet, so that's still up in the air. <br /> <br />Verdict: would I buy this unit again? Maybe not if it cost two hundred dollars. But at nearly half taht price, it's a great deal. Yeah, I'd definitely buy it again.