Philips PET741B 37 Portable DVD Player with 7-Inch LCD Black 2009 Model

I purchased this item to use in my basement, which happens to be my workout area. I am also currently on a budget, and for roughly $60 this is a great item! I use it to play a variety of DVD's like the P90X series of workouts, Tae-Bo, etc. It's a great player with ample sound and decent video quality. It also seems to hold a pretty good charge on the battery. I have never used it in the car or on any travel so I cannot speak to that. You aren't going to get the same A/V quality that you would from a normal large flatscreen television. Use this for its intended purpose, which is a small portable device for watching movies and listening to music. Thanks Read more

This player is all one needs in a portable DVD player. Only one thing is frustrating-it has to be off to charge it so that's a few hours spent without it. Read more

I bought this as a gift. When I got it, it had a dead pixel and I exchanged it through Amazon. I was a little wary since I don't buy electronics through amazon very often -- but the Portable DVD has been worth its weight in gold. I have not had any problems with the replacement DVD player I got. We watch it every night and often leave it on overnight. It plays like a champ. The picture is clear, and as long as the volume is on low, the sound is very clear (the sound gets a little tinny at louder volumes). I have not seen it skip once even when jostled. A portable DVD player comes in surprisingly handy. It is very lightwieght and fits easily inside a laptop bag. Great for work, home, kitchen, bedroom, -- basically everywhere you either dont have a TV or dont want all the light and noise of a full-size TV. I can reccomend this portable DVD player to anyone who enjoys movies or tv shows and is not interested in downloads. Read more

All worked as advertised. No problems. Bought because my wife was making a long trip alone, and prefers movie soundtracks to music on the road. The built in speakers are useless for this purpose as they just cannot play loud enough. But, I happened to have an adapter that plugged into the earphone jack on the player and into the audio cassette slot on the truck's radio, and that worked perfectly. The picture quality was just fine, but for our purposes it is good that the thing works fine with the lid closed, so there was no distracting video visible while she was driving. While we are unlikely to use this device much for it's actual intended purpose, it works just fine for that. Having an internal battery, and coming supplied with both a cigarette lighter and A/C power supply makes this unit very flexible for almost any use. Audio quality through the cassette adapter and via headphones is excellent. It's usable in a quiet environment with the internal speakers, but I'd qualify that as barely usable. Not surprising considering the size. Read more

Just received this item and had read conflicting messages in Amazon reviews about whether you can watch this while it's charging. Well, the verdict is: you can't. And much to my disappointment. Instructions say in black and white (but nowhere in the promotional materials online before buying) that you can't use this while it's charging and it takes 4.5 hours to charge. So our road trip with our kid will involve no more than 2 hours of watching his DVDs, 4.5 hours of charging his player... really? What good is that? I might have to return this pronto. What I'd be interested to know: can you actually charge it and watch at the same time, but it's not advisable (instead of not doable)? If it's simply not advisable, then I'll do it anyway... thoughts on this from anyone else who has purchased this DVD player? Read more

I bought these for myself and my mother to use to watch courses from the Learning Company and for that purpose they work just great. There is a model that also has digital TV included and had I known of that before buying this would likely have gone that route. I also have a piano course that includes a CD and this lets me take it to the piano and listen to the CD (which shows me how a piece of music should sound if playing properly) and works great for that purpose. When I do not want to watch a DVD on my full screen or when traveling this works extremely well. Only drawback is that it does not have a way of seeing how far you are into a DVD which would have been a nice feature and one that most DVD players have. For the price I think this is hard to beat. Read more

Reviews for this item were really promising and we were excited to get it for my daughter for her second birthday. We travel to see family often so this makes or breaks our car ride. We have an iPad we have loaded movies on and she loves that but we wanted to try something she could have as more of her own. We were excited when we opened it up. It has a sleek design and is a good size. The screen is small. When we plugged it in and turned it on (super user friendly and virtually no set-up prior to use) I was really disappointed in the quality of the picture on the screen. Every time our daughter would tip the unit even a little bit it would make a loud clicking sound. I honestly don't know if that was normal or if ours was damaged, but we boxed it up and returned it. We were not impressed with the quality, especially coming from using an iPad/iPhone. I would recommend this to family/friends as a cheap option for times of desperation, but for us it was not a good fit and the quality just seemed really poor (I assume all DVD players are similar in quality though). Read more