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Audiovox D1500A 5-Inch Portable DVD Player with Car Kit
See it at Amazon.com for $189.99Average Customer Rating
(3.0 out of 5)
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Good at first...until the Battery BURNED and MELTED
(2 out of 5) by Upset Customer on Mar 24, 2005 (Dallas, TX)This thing could have burned my 3 year old...the bottom got so hot just by watching movies that the battery burned and melted on the bottom after turning it off one night. It stuck to the blanket and could have started a fire...talk about defective product!!!!!!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
RIP OFF
(1 out of 5) by L. Lee on Sep 14, 2004 (Alameda, CA)The product worked great until a week after my warranty expires. It is as if there is a timer on the DVD to make the product useless after 90 days. Have to chuck it b/c it would cost more to have it repaired by Audiovox. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
TERRIBLE PICTURE, NOT EVEN WORTH THE LOW PRICE
(1 out of 5) by Booksnoop on Oct 20, 2004 (Frederick, MD)I've been wanting to buy a portable dvd player for some time, and with an airplane trip from Boston to Alaska planned, I thought this would be the perfect time to take the plunge. I was attracted to the Audiovox D1500A 5" Portable DVD Player due to the low price and great Amazon ratings. I received the player and after testing it with several dvds, I'm wondering - is this the same player everyone here is raving about?
The player looks sturdy and figuring out how to use it was a snap. I popped in my first test dvd, The Sound of Music, and turned the player on. The sound from the speakers is about what you'd expect, terrible, but with headphones it was fine. I was surprised with the picture quality. There was a problem with aliasing as well as colors looking washed out.
Thinking it might be the dvd, I also tried my Fargo dvd and then a dvd from the tv series, X Files, and had the same problem with each - washed out color, aliasing, and titles which were blurry around the edges and extremely difficult to read.
The only adjustment you can make to the picture is the brightness, and playing around with that didn't help. I am not particularly demanding when it comes to video quality, but I could not put up with this poor picture quality for an entire movie.
Even the extremely low price does not justify the worst picture quality I have ever seen on a portable dvd player. I returned this to Amazon and bought a Panasonic brand player instead.
The player looks sturdy and figuring out how to use it was a snap. I popped in my first test dvd, The Sound of Music, and turned the player on. The sound from the speakers is about what you'd expect, terrible, but with headphones it was fine. I was surprised with the picture quality. There was a problem with aliasing as well as colors looking washed out.
Thinking it might be the dvd, I also tried my Fargo dvd and then a dvd from the tv series, X Files, and had the same problem with each - washed out color, aliasing, and titles which were blurry around the edges and extremely difficult to read.
The only adjustment you can make to the picture is the brightness, and playing around with that didn't help. I am not particularly demanding when it comes to video quality, but I could not put up with this poor picture quality for an entire movie.
Even the extremely low price does not justify the worst picture quality I have ever seen on a portable dvd player. I returned this to Amazon and bought a Panasonic brand player instead.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Technical problem
(1 out of 5) by Susan B. Zelicoff on Sep 6, 2005I used it twice,then after the 1 year warranty expired it died. The repair quote from the manuf. was $100.25 with shipping. Why bother.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
DVD player had serious tech problem after 1 year and 1 month
(1 out of 5) by Heather Capobianco on Jun 21, 2005 (Albany, NY)I bought this unit in March 2004. In April 2005 our family went to use it and a message came up wrong region with Region 1 movies(I live in the USA). Audiovox said it would need to be repaired at a cost of at least $94. I told them that they just lost another customer. Not a good product or a good company.