Initial IDM-1731 Portable DVD Player with 7-Inch LCD
Works great for me
The only reason I am leavening a review is because I started looking into it for a friend and started reading all the reviews and some made it sound bad.<BR>Now I've owned my Initial 1731 now since Nov03 and it has worked great. Picture is darn good, speakers are nothing great but with headphones it sounds great and in the car I hook up my irock FM signal transmitter (any Radio Shack 29$) and play it over the car speakers and talk about surround sound. <BR>I've had none of the problems that others on here have mentioned. Maybe if you want this to be a work horse DVD player for you. You might want to spend the extra money. But for my money and usage this is a great buy. I gave it only 4 stars out of 5 because it would have to be perfect in everything to get a perfect score. I've never found anything to be flawless. So for me this is about as good a score as I could give it.<BR>Sure the motor makes a little noise when you first start it maybe 5 sec after that I can't hear it unless I turn the volume off. And then you have to be in perfect silence. Headphones are cheap so that little thing doesn't bother me. Plus I've got about 5 pairs that have come with other things that I don't use because they sound bad or are awkward.<BR>With any kind of electronics you have to take care of it for it to last.