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This is one of the best DVD players out there. The picture-quality is great. Best of all is the battery length. I was able to watch TWO WHOLE MOVIES! With others I could only watch one DVD before having to recharge the battery. The remote is a great feature to have but I have rarly used it. The DVD player's sleek design is handy for travel. It is great to have for long flights or car-rides. I recommend this player to everyone. Its a great buy compared to DVD players priced in the high thousands. The quality is just as great also. A TOTALLY GREAT BUY!

I've used this DVD player during air and auto travel for the past 4 months. It is a solid performer and I can recommend it highly. Light weight, good picture quality, intuitive controls, and the longest lasting battery in the market--which is more important than picture size since you cannot recharge batteries during a flight. My only beef with the unit is that it has anemic speakers (as do all competing units) that are hard to hear over jet engines and auto noise. But since speakers would annoy others anyway, I simply use headphones and get better sound. The player puts out enough audio to drive a companion's headphones. The screen has an adequate acceptance angle to permit two viewers to see a good image during a flight. When used with a cheap RF video modulator (e.g. Radio Shack), the DVD player transmits a very high quality picture to the TV's available in motels & vacation homes.

I just got my DVD-LV57 and its working great. My first thought was this little thing isnt going to be as fascinating as a standard DVD, and i was right... its much better.
Great quality look, i like it better than the DVD-LV60, even though the screen is smaller.

Works great for me, great sound and video quality. I'm glad I have it. Has some great accessories like cords to hook up to a TV if you're traveling. I used the rebate and got the free headphones and case which was a great value.

I was given this DVD player as a gift and had no idea how much I would end up using this. Not only do I use it as my home DVD player now, but as a sometimes video producer, I use this as a "portable studio" to play DVD-R's I've burned to take to meetings. Sitting over lunch, going over works in progress with others involved in the project has been a real time saver. I use a "splitter" to plug in two headphones (there is plenty of power for this)..The five hour battery is fantastic. On a recent flight I took, the second headphone came in handy when I offered it to the person in the seat next to me who was uninterested in the inflight movie. Watched two movies with plenty of battery left. Great product!