Mintek MDP-1770KIT 7-Inch Portable DVD Player Kit
Not a seven inch screen if you have widescreen DVDs
I bought this from Amazon and it came fairly quickly.  It is fairly compact and has a decent LCD screen.  Like other reviewers have posted, the volume control is a dial so you can't control it with the remote.  In addition, there is quite a bit of noise from the unit when the laser is moving.  In normal playback, the noise is minimal.  It's only when you start the disc, change chapters manually, etc... that the noise level reaches a surprising level.  The remote is okay, nothing spectacular.  <br /> <br />For me, the single biggest problem is that the unit won't play widescreen discs across the entire screen.  Instead, a 3/4 inch band of black appears on all four sides of the screen.  This means that you might buy a 7 inch screen but you're left with an effective 5 1/2 inch screen if you're playing a widescreen disc.  I emailed the customer service and was promptly told: <br /> <br />\\"the DVD player does not regulate the screen size, the disc does. if you rent or buy your disc in widescreen version, you will get the bars, if you get them in fullscreen version, you get, fullscreen. <br />Gary, Tech Support\\" <br /> <br />For me this is a deal-breaker.  It seems that the only way you can make full use of the 7 inch widescreen is to use a fullscreen formated disc and strech it across the screen (with distortion).  Why would Mintek even make this a widescreen unit in that case?