Audiovox D2010 10.2-Inch Widescreen Ultraslim Portable DVD Player
Nice features, easy to use, adequate for kids
Purchased the portable DVD player in July, 2004 from shopharmony.com for $379. The accessories are great: remote, a/c and d/c plugs, stereo cable, RCA cables for L/R & video, car mount for inbetween seats or back of seat. Features are very user friendly for kids and provide enough versatility even for adults. Volume is excellent and left/right earphone jacks are really useful. Picture quality is adequate for my 8 year old, but I am used to laptop monitors with much higher quality video displays. Video is too soft for my taste. I prefer clearer and sharper images. Also experienced a major technical problem with the Read Head after only a few months. The video would start to skip on a brand new DVD and you could hear the Read Head thrashing back and forth as if looking for a spot on the DVD. I decided to manually move the Read Head by sliding it up/down. This cleared up the problem for awhile. Next time it happened (on a brand new DVD again) I repeated the procedure and it worked again. Maybe I received a lemon. It took me 3 weeks to get it because of delays in shipping from Audiovox...guess it was an early model. I'm a little troubled by the fact that shopharmony.com no longer carries this model.  Final analysis...good for kids on long trips as long as you can afford it!