Panasonic DVD-LV55 Portable DVD Player
Truly wonderful, but nothing's perfect
I wanted this for a good long while before I bought it, and I was worried that it might not live up to expectations.  However, this is one of those rare gadgets that is just as much fun as you think it will be.<br />Not only does it mean that you can watch DVDs on any airplane, in any hotel room, and even on long taxi rides (maybe not a whole DVD!), it also means you have a DVD player in every room in your house.  Spending time scrubbing grout in the bathroom?  At least you can be entertained while you do it!<br />Down to brass tacks, though.  I have found the speakers to be fine, as long as you don't turn them up too loud.  As people have mentioned previously, there are no headphones, but I can't imagine buying something like this without at least having a portable CD player, so you probably have headphones already.  It's better than watching stuff on a laptop because a) my company doesn't give us computers with DVD-ROMs =) and b) this is so much smaller that it even fits in my small-to-medium-sized handbag!  Much handier.  And you don't have to wait for it to boot up.<br />There are multiple screen modes, to make the best use of the rather small screen.  There are some movies which play as a letterboxed &amp; TV-shaped picture (in effect, black bars on all four sides), which is really tiny.  However you can set the monitor to zoom in on the actual picture area without (as far as I can tell) losing picture quality.<br />On the down side, the picture is a bit grainy.  I wish the battery lasted longer than 3 hours.  Also, for hotel rooms, I wish the feature that compresses the volume range (I forget what this is called) made any sort of noticeable difference.  I wish it came with a case that exactly fit it, because the ones available seem to be designed to fit the 7&quot; one, and on my last trip I had it in bubble wrap, which was not too convenient.<br />On the whole, though, I really love it.  The biggest problem is the fact that it is so convenient that I have been buying way too many DVDs.