Portable DVD’s allow you to take your movies with you anywhere. They make great gifts for families with children as they can be installed in vehicles. Road trips are easier with portable DVD players. They can be taken on airplanes, buses, and trains as well so regardless of how you travel you can have some good entertainment. Here is some information to help you make a good choice when it comes to purchasing one.

There are some basic features that you need to make sure the portable DVD player has:They include the size of the screen, the quality of the picture, the quality of the audio, how long the battery lasts after being charged, how you connect it, and of course the size of the device.

In most cases you will find you pay more money not for additional features but for a larger viewing screen when it comes to portable DVD players. An average size screen is 7 inches and the larger ones are 10 inches. Make sure you purchase a quality portable DVD player will a good warranty.

Both Panasonic and Sony top the charts with the best overall portable DVD players on the market. Panasonic offers the DVD-LX97 has a 9 inch screen that pivots so you can adjust it to the comfort of the person using as well as the position they are in. It also offers a transmitter than allows you to put the sound through the speakers in your car. It also has one of the longest lasting batteries with 10 hours if it has a full charge. It is a good product but pricey with a $300 price tag.

Sony’s portable DVD player is much less at around $200. It only has an 8 inch screen but it swivels and it has jacks for two sets of headphones if you want to share it with someone. One of the short comings of it though is the battery life is only four hours. It does have an adapter for your car cigarette lighter to recharge but if you aren’t traveling in a car that option doesn’t help you.

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For around $150 you can purchase the Toshiba SD-P1850. If features an 8 inch screen that supports all the other elements including JPEG and MP3 Audio. It also features the dual headphone jacks that are very popular. This model won’t offer you the picture or the sound quality that the others do but it isn’t too poor to make the movies you view distracting either.

There are several less expensive portable DVD players on the market but if you are going to invest in one than go with these even though they cost more. Many of the lower priced portable DVD players just don’t offer good sound or picture quality. They also have a low battery life and in many cases the DVD’s often freeze during play. All of the portable DVD players for under $150 just didn’t measure up to the consumer expectations. Since portable DVD players are a fairly new product to the market though you can expect some huge improvements and hopefully some drop in price over the next couple of years.