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This is an excellent affordable multi format audio and video compact DVD player with only some minor compromises. In my opinion, at this current stage of electronics, It's an one of a kind DVD player in It's class. I had recently purchased a new Toshiba DVD player with mp3 and multi format video playback... but there was something intriging about the compact Koss brand... I had to test It's capabilities against the Toshiba's. The Toshiba model played back the standard mp3 and vcd format, but I discovered that the Koss model would not only play standard formats, it also played raw data mp3,vcd and dvd backups in which the toshiba could not read. Both players have good video and sound outputs as well as nice control features such as 4x zooming. I've also looked at other brands in different electronic stores with the same basic features in the same price range; but overall I was sold on the Koss. The only minor flaw I would point out, because of its compacted size, it should have an internal cooling fan to ventilate circuitry like the PS2; which I want to inform will only read standard formatted disks; unless modified with a special chip. It also seems that this particular Koss model is a hard to find item in just any electronics store.... Despite It's minor flaws ,It's a very nice DVD Player. If they only made one that had a flip top screen that included a car kit, a cooling fan and game playing capabilites it would be perfect!

I've had one of these for several months. While it doesn't skimp on any functions and is easy to carry back and forth to my girlfriend's place, they forgot to properly ventilate this unit. Compact is great if it doesn't overheat. If you watch a three hour movie, expect it to skip a lot in the last hour. I really feel like I wasted my money.

This thing pays my friend's pirated DVDs she brought back from a trip in China. Nobody else's DVD players understand them. This until also lets you view raw video and JPEG files burned straight to disk. It's also Very Tiny! It's got the digital outputs and component, etc. that big units have. The hidden cool thing about it is the AWESOME sound out of the headphone jack. Koss primarily makes higher-quality headphones, so the HF jack had to be great. It sounds way superior to my other CD players, so I actually take it to work for listening.

Now the bad part... it's got a jumpy (although clear) image. The power supply is wrong, so replaced it with a Radioshack 12v one like the manual says (how did they mess that up?). It will overheat unless you sit it on top of a videotape so the vents are not covered on the bottom. Heat still an issue since heat rises (so why are the holes on the bottom???).

Worth checking out, but don't pay too much!

I bought this at target because it matched my orange psychedelic phone and because it was so portable.

I had a console DVD player that I loved that never gave me a moment's worry, even when I left a DVD on stop and neglected it for a week.

This isn't your DVD player if you're like me.

It's noisy, too hot, and I can't even watch American beauty or John Q on it because it won't read them (any of them, I've tried returning my DVDs and getting new ones even).

I thought my DVDs were old or improperly coded so I kept returning them to get replacements. It's the player. It's UNRELIABLE.

I'm not going to go spend 15 dollars on a new adapter when I paid 100 dollars for the DVD unit.

I have since replaced it with a 79 dollar Toshiba console unit that works FINE.

It's nice that this Koss plays all regions and all formats save for avi/rpg/mov/mpeg.

But it's not worth the high price tag. If they charged 45 dollars or less, ok. Skip this skippy little annoyance.

I ignored the reviews on this product and bought it anyway because of it's uniquely small size. I had a large number of things to bring down to my home in Central America and I was able to bring it down in the pocket of my jacket. However, I would have been better served to just slip it in the trash basket at the airport instead. Every single complaint listed in the other reviews haunted mine, particularly the heating, failure to recognize the disk, and the "frame-freeze". The most unforgiving was the frame-freeze, which, would begin for no apparent reason, usually about half way though a movie, then "freeze" for 2-15 seconds, and then play for 10 or so seconds and "Freeze" again. Well, this was it's ultimate undoing, and mine, because after just a few weeks, when in one streak it ruined 3 movies in as many days, I thoroughly "tweaked" the damn thing with a claw hammer, which was the most satisfaction I recieved from this product. I am all for saving a couple of bucks, but this product is simply below the threshold of utility. Spend the extra $10 and get something that works.