# Suggestions on portable DVD players.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-portable-dvd-players/410658>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 5, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-portable-dvd-players/410658 "2007-07-05T22:09:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-portable-dvd-players/410658/1 "2007-07-05T22:09:43Z")

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I’m looking for a portable DVD player.  
Screen -6" or better  
Sound-decent, but nothing fancy  
battery life–unimportant  
power socket adapter–must have  
headphone socket–yes

$130 or less.

Dopers, what are your experiences with portable DVD players?

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-portable-dvd-players/410658/2 "2007-07-05T22:40:42Z")

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I have a Panasonic 7" that I bought on Christmas Eve about 2.5 years ago. I was going to pull a 12 hour shift in an empty building and figured I’d go nuts if I didn’t have any entertainment.

I like it, though the sound isn’t that great.

Headphones help when you can use them, or like when I worked the Truck Gate, I used a cassette cord (like for plugging a CD player into a cassette deck) in order to play the sound through a boom box.

Then last summer I took it with me on vacation, along with the big ass headphones with the 15’ cord. Plugged into the hotel room’s 27" TV, so I was just using it as a DVD player, not a viewer.

Yup, sitting or wandering around a hotel room watching a DVD with the sound cranked up and not bothering a soul…

Don’t use it as much these days, because I can’t use it at work like I used to (different job), but it’s still kinda nice to have from time to time.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-portable-dvd-players/410658/3 "2007-07-06T09:55:37Z")

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Good.

Anybody else with experience/input?