Panasonic DVD-LS90 9-Inch Portable DVD Player
Spoiled by Mintek.
My trusty Mintek MDP-1720 started acting up (and is no longer manufactured, apparently) so I started shopping for a new one. I went with this one, despite the warnings about picture quality, since 1. it was 9 inches, 2. I got a good deal where I bought it from, and 3. it's Panasonic and I've bought good stuff from them in the past. <br /> <br />Sadly, I have been spoiled by Mintek. Looking at them side by side (my Mintek still works three quarters of the time, you see) the picture quality of the DVD-LS90 is crushed by the MDP-1720. The Panasonic has often has weird, unnatural colors (images frequently have an orangey tinge); images have poor clarity; there's noticable distortion around things like subtitles and credits. If this is your first experience with a portable, I mean, it probably has everything you want: big screen, multi-adjustable screen, movies load fast, a great remote that controls ever aspect of the player. It even has things you may not need like DVD-RAM support (which hardly any DVD players support, portable or not.) But in the end it's a movie player. Movies should look good on it, but it can't beat the allegedly inferior Mintek. Maybe it's just a question of TFT vs LCD displays (I thought they were the same thing, but don't have a clue about the technical differences.) <br /> <br />Avoid if you place any priority on picture quality. I think I'm going to take it back.