1) I just bought this, it is cheap, I got it from Fry's for
$60 + $6 recycling fee for the monitor.

2) Compared to other players which are $124-170, the screen
resolution is the same. It is kind of pixelated, for this screen
size (8.5 inc), for expensive models also. I guess you have to
got to blueray to get any thing better than this.

3) The greatest feature is it can read extremely scratchy DVDs
and play it. On the display they had a movie disk in the player.
It was horribly scratchy,
looked like some one used it as a skate board.
It played fine on this machine.
The Panasonic DVD player, which is $178
could not even load it.

I had an expensive Sony DVD/player and recorder, but it will not
play a DVD if you have a finger print or slight scratch.
So just for this feature I will give it a Big five star.

4) The sound is not bad, when I played a nice music CD, the sound came out... Read more

I bought this a gift that I will be sending to our family in Europe. Since it will travel so much I had to make sure that it works well before sending it. I charged it and tested it with DVDs bought in the US and from Europe. It had no problem playing them. The sound is extremely good and it can be very loud without sacrificing quality. You can see lines on the screen, kind of like the old tv-s. The picture could be better, I mean, but I have no idea how other models compare, so it might as well be a good picture. Anyway, the menu is very intuitive, everything is available on the player itself, so there is no need for remote really. But having a remote is a good idea, anyway. The feature that I liked a lot is that you can output video to a TV, so it can be used as a DVD player at home for the big screen. Also, it can read DVD-R+/- which is great. It is a very good player for the money.

I bought this for my mom who takes a 6 hour round trip every 3 weeks. She has gotten alot of use out of this, and absolutely loves it. It is easy to use, which is good for her, because she usually gets flustered with electronics. I would highly recommend this product to those that like to have something simple to watch movies on that also looks great.