Simply great

Simple idea, combine a DVD player and iPod dock and you have the best of both worlds all in one unit. Incredibly handy, just a shame the battery doesn't last a bit longer. Also the DVD player is multi-region, just google the part number for simple remote hack ;-)

Excellent value for money

Excellent value for money and would recommend to anyone. Does not come with a car mount but luckily fitted in the car mount from my old player. All in all my daughter loves it.

buy it now

very good value for money many features like usb playback and many disk formats supported about 5month in to it still pleased.

Buy at your peril

My player has broken down after 4-5 weeks of minimal use, luckily amazon were very good and immediately sent out another, alas, the problem has recurred (none of my DVDs load, and the screen remains blank), am now awaiting a refund from amazon, buy at your peril!

PHILIPS PET707/05 - 7" Portable DVD Player

Very pleased with product, just as described. Delivery was super quick. Would definitely use supplier again.

Great!

This player offers all that is needed for moderate play. It plays DVD as stated in description but also plays DVD-R and DVD-RW as i have. 3 hours battery is pretty reasonable! Fantastic!

Great Value for Money

Bought the DVP-520, super-fast delivery - next day. Great product, plays everything I've tried. One review said that on the zoom function the white x2 icon stays in the middle of the screen - he must have had a faulty player, as mine disappears after about 5 seconds and the feature works perfectly. I only gave it 4/5 though as I agree with a previous review that the sound, although of a good standard - is not as good as my previous player (which broke!) through my stereo. But for the price - you can't grumble and it's an excellent - super slim, good looking machine. Would definetly recommend it.

Lasted less than three months

I ordered this portable DVD player because it had quite a large screen and at the time I was having to go on longhaul flights for my job. While it worked at the beginning, it was very good but, unfortunately, it lasted less than three months before it would no longer play DVDs. Over that period it gradually deteriorated - some would play, some wouldn't and some would if you kept removing and re-inserting them frequently. I tried all the 'help me' stuff, like cleaning the laser head, etc. I was very disappointed.

Its ok.

this dvd player is amazing, but it does have some flaws. to use the"resume play" option, when u load the dvd player you have to press the"ok" button. and the player that i have has frozen a number of times, weather it is the dvds or the actual player i do not know. but overall i like this dvd player.

Poor freeview reception

I bought this yesterday from a High St retailer as an impulse buy - and frankly it's going back tomorrow.

Main problem is that despite having a good aerial and a freeview box that picks up all channels this device doesn't pick all the channels up. Putting my freeview box on pass through (i.e. as if it was a sat box) produces the same result - i.e. for instance ITV is viewable from my original box when connected direct to the TV but not when the signal is passed through this box. So, frankly useless.

Add to this the remote control is fussy with many small button and it can't obviously control my Philips TV for channel or more importantly volume. The complexity of the product also makes it easy to get lost and set the box to something you don't want - solution switch it off. When you switch it off it saves settings which can take a minute... plus side - appears to start up quickly and unit is pretty quiet.

In short; Disappointed. Recommended to avoid - stick to a freeview box and iPlayer and the like for the moment and save up for a better brand or freeview HD when it's out.

You'll regret buying it!

Within eight months of purchase, the playback from the hard disk started freezing every few minutes. The unit was returned under warranty. Six months after the unit was returned, the problem reappeared. A quick web search shows that the problem is not uncommon.

Philips are not the quality company they used to be.

No fast forward when viewing AVI/DivX movies

One killer feature this recorder has is DivX playback, which in my mind makes it different from the usual supermarket combos. But unfortunatly you cannot fast forward when you are viewing an AVI/DivX movie!!!

You would be better off with one from Asda!

Absolute rubbish

This is by far the worst piece of consumer electronics I've ever bought. Firstly it's failed three times already and I'm just about to take it back again because I've just discovered it won't record anything to DVD. Even when working, it's the most painful, slow and badly designed product I've had the misfortune to buy. Just switching it on is agony while you wait about 2 minutes for it to warm up. It goes downhill from there. Don't buy it!