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Our old Polaroid portable DVD player wouldn’t work off of just battery anymore since a tiny plastic latch had broken off. After researching the cost for a new battery, I decided to just sell the whole thing on eBay and get a brand new player.
At Best Buy, I found the Philips DCP850/37 portable DVD player and was really impressed with it after just a few minutes of playing with the demo model.
The unit sports an 8.5″ tilting/rotating LCD screen, an SD card slot, dual headphone jacks, a remote control, and an iPod dock. It supports all of the various DVD formats and will even play DivX files.
Having all of those different options for playing media on the go was a big plus. Before going on a trip, I’ll download a bunch of recordings from my TiVos, convert them into DivX format, and burn them onto a DVD. That way we have to carry fewer discs. Or I can put them into my iPod Video and then dock that on the player and show them on the larger screen. If I happen to have a few videos on an SD card (which I usually carry in my Treo for more portable video playback via TCPMP) I can pop that in as well. It’s a really well-designed video playback device.