Toshiba SD-P1400 7-Inch Portable DVD Player
Good portable
I bought this dvd player few weeks back and last weekend was true test for it. We had a long trip to LA and had very good experience with it. Here are the good things and not so good things about it so far.<br /><br />Goods<br /><br />1) Very good battery time. The battery has been lasting for quite long. I did not check the actual usage time, but it lasted on and off two one hour dvd and had charge left. I bought a power inverter for the car so that I can keep the battery charged.<br /><br />2) Very clear and sharp picture.<br /><br />3) I like the color combination and general style of the player. My 21 month old daughter likes the sharp color and design.<br /><br />4) Plays mp3 ! The interface to play mp3 cds is great and quite intuitive.<br /><br />5) Have not tried yet, but plays dvd-rw/r. Which is a big plus since lots of my daughters tv shows are burned on dvds.<br /><br />Not so good:<br /><br />1) Sound from speaker is poor. But then again you probably already knew that from other posts. However, the sound for headphone is also poor. I connected output from headphone to car stereo and often I had to really crank up the volume on car stereo and the dvd player to get decent volume.<br /><br />2) It seems to be tempermental with older dvd and vcd/cd. A few of the dvds I tried to play were borrowed from public library. Those were a bit scratched. Sometimes the player played them fine and sometimes it just refused to play at all. It also for some reason still unknown refuses to play my original Matrix dvd. So in general it has problems reading DVD sometimes.<br /><br />3) Does not play SACD, dvd+rw/r<br /><br />4) Does not come with carrying case. Most other companies bundle a carrying case, but not this one. I bought one from walmart for 15$ which seems to be ok if not great. I wish they would suppply a carrying case for it in future that will truly fit it.