dvd players

A godsend for a recent journey which took 6 hours longer than expected. It kept our 3 year old occupied in the most boring car journey ever. Only criticism, there are too many wires, not the easiest to keep tidy in the car whilst driving.

Just what I wanted

I am well pleased with this purchase. The product that I bought performs exactly as I had hoped.

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 ;-)

Phillips PET831 Portable DVD player review

I bought this all in one to replace an earlier Phillips one with separate DVD player and screens that I broke! The DVD has a mount kit that fixes to the headrest supports. The picture is fine but the sound is poor to say the least. I have also found it very fussy with discs and the player hardly works in the mount on New Zealand roads (although the are quite bad) due to the amount of bouncing. In the end my daughter ends up holding the DVD player on her lap. I think I'll encourage her to look out of the window at the passing scenery instead, it always works....

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.

head phones or not

can we use without head phones,be nice to hear,not even in shops to explain.does anyone have one to let me know please

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 all rounder

Great product - simple to set up and use.

Plays the usual plus DivX and can be made region-free - see KN for the code below - thanks for that KN.

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.

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.

DVDR5520H - Slow Phillips Hard disk/DVD recorder

I'd think twice about buying one of these - Why?
The thing takes an age to get started when switched on, I'm not joking, not just a few seconds, feels like several minutes!
The whole thing freezes and gets itself in a muddle, you just have to wait again
The remote control and recorder seem to have a mind of their own
TV Guide is poor
DVD play back freezes when watching DVD films
Very poor, you've been warned

PHILIPS PET830/05 - 8.5inch Portable DVD Player

I'm just an average joe so Im not going to go into speeds and feeds, I bought the above and think its looks the business. Its light, fits on the back head rest and comes with everything you could need. In short if your looking for a good buy then this is a safe bet.