Sony DVP-FX1 Portable DVD Player
Close to perfect, doesn't like cold weather shipping
I'd thought about buying the Sharp but Sony sounded better so Idid some shopping around and found it for (a relatively low price), that took care of the most often heard complaint of high price. The construction of the player seems fine to me, not much you could do to make such a small device better. I've just run a couple of DVD's on it so far but the color and picture seem to be perfect as long as you don't try to view the picture at some off angle, no need for color adjustments that it doesn't have anyway. I'm still learning to operate the DVP-FX1 but all I can really find to complain ( the battery power conservation mode is hard to find but you CAN get 4+ hours out of a charge with it)about is the sensitivity to cold. I got my player late one December afternoon and took it out of the shipping box, but not the Sony box, and set it next to a heater vent to warm it up. After getting set up five or six hours later the player still couldn't recognize that I had put a DVD in it. I had to put it near the vent, no box this time,30 minutes,to warm it up directly. This finally allowed me to play a CD but the best it would do on a DVD was indicate that the perfectly clean DVD needed cleaning, it would not play it. I tried again the next day and couldn't have been happier with the way the player operated.