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We were so excited with this product at first. The car headmount is great and the product was cheap. Well, after using it for one car trip it stopped working. Thinking it was just a random problem, we exchanged it for another one.

Well, the same thing happened. We played it for one long car ride, and then when we went to use it again, it wouldn't read the disk. Maybe it wasn't designed for long use (we had played it for about 4 hours straight each time)?

Regardless, I think you get what you pay for. It's cheap and from a no name company. Nextar? Who is that? If I were you, I would buy something from a more reputable and proven to be reliable company. Good DVD players really only cost about $50 more.

If you do buy this, buy it from a retail store so you don't go through the hassles of online returns...

The steel mounting bracket alone sold us on this DVD player. It is FAR superior to the nylon-strap method that every other portable unit seems to be employing. As a player...it's poor to fair in quality. Ours would occasionally black out while playing...the movie was still playing but the LCD display would go black. Now if you're like us, the only reason to have a TV in the car is to entertain the little ones. The black out problem just seemed to irritate them more than not having anything to watch at all. They would get into the movie and every 15 minutes we would hear screaming from our 2 year old because her movie was not visible.

PROS:
1) Mounting bracket is the best one I've seen. Very secure, no jiggling, adjustible, pretty easy to remove.
CONS:
1) Not a great quality player
2) Does not provide 2 screen viewing from one player (or if it did, Nextar's tech support and an entire team from Best Buy was unable to figure it out).
3) If you get 2...like we did (one for each kid...see Con Number 2), the remote controls both units so you have to use the in screen menu.

Overall, I'd say
Get it IF you:
* have 1 kid or only want one display and don't mind a medicocre player
Don't Get it IF you:
* want the ability to view 2 screens from the same player
* like me think the other companies should pull their heads out and make a similar mounting device.

We eventually returned ours for the blackout problem.

We are currently on our second unit and both have stopped working for no apparent reason. The seat mount is well designed, however, the DVD player is clearly garbage and the unit should not be purchased. Reading other reviews, it is apparent that there is an inherent problem with these devices.