Mintek 10.2" Portable DVD Player - MDP1010
Major Disk Incompatibility
Techies, purchased what appears to be the Costco package of the 10.2\\" Mintek their MDP-1070.  It has poor compatibility with a wide range of DVD media.  I own a Panasonic set-top DVD burner, have used the discount media such as GQ from Fry's and other bargains.  Virtaully all failed to work on this player.  Then took the same disks to Fry's and tried their players.  The 7\\" Sony (the one I will be buying next) played them all without a hickup.  The Panasonic did too, as well as the Samsung.  Watch out for the Toshiba--there were issues here too. The Mintek which is feature rich, attracted me because of the SD memory card slot and USB port.  However, what I discovered was that a good player such as the Sony and Samsungs seem to have a composite INPUT which allows you to hookup your digital camera or camcorder directly, so both the SD card slot and the USB slot are only nice-to-haves, not show stoppers.  The \\"noise-cancelling\\" headphones (as do most of the cheapies) with the Mintek produce hiss from the cheap electronics.  The hiss is so annoying that you may want to shut-off their amp (you can still use headphones without the amp/noise cancellation).  And the cancellation ability is virtaully non-existant around the house with higher frequencies (may work with lower frequencies on a plane--but did nothing in my bathroom with the exhaust fan on).  If you are a digital photography buff (stills/camcorder) watchout for the Pansonic portable dvd players, apparently they do not have video inputs.  The super high end ones may have an SD memory card slot though.  The Mintek manual is in Changlish, a combination of English with some poor Chinese/English translation.  It is very limited in usefullness.  Think I accidentally discovered in the manual that the battery life was 2.5 hours--this is hiden on the Mintek website, on all packaging and at Costco.