Advantages: Great picture, Good audio, Nice to look at. Disadvantages: Sound cannot go as high as some other portable DVD players.
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I would like to start this review by stating why I chose to buy this product instead of the many other portable DVD players that I could have bought. The first reason was simply the price. This was the cheapest Portable DVD player that I could find at my local Electronics store. You must understand that I do not travel all that often so I just wanted a cheap portable DVD player so that I would not get bored during any long ... ...the summer. To put it simply if I did not have this device when I was travelling I would have been incredibly bored. Portable DVD players become lifesavers on long journeys.
This machine was also useful for those times when I just fancied lying back on my bed and watching a film. Even though my TV with DVD player was just feet away, I found that it was much easier to just boot this product up, slot in a DVD and sit back and relax. I loved not having ...
Craigshadow12 27.07.2007
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Advantages: Easy to use, USB port option, durable, easily converted to region free Disadvantages: a bit heavy, short battery life
I bought this at £109 delivered from LASKYS.com back in July 2007. No kidding I am one of those people who keep records of purchases - receipts if bought from shops, electronic invoices if bought via the internet. At that time, both Argos and Amazon are selling this machine but at a higher price £120-130. The reason for this purchase was that we were going for long car journeys on a regular basis. To keep the kid entertained while one of us can have ... ...the car. Also, it is useful for a caravan holiday when it is raining and there is no DVD player in the caravan. Since this is a portable 7" DVD player, I would not expect Dolby surround sound and cinematic picture quality. Also, it should be relatively simple to set up and use especially for a kid. It has all the basic features and a bit more - an USB port for pen drives so that you can either use it to play movies stored on the pen drive or do a ...
volcano 15.06.2009
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Quick review of Philips PET730
Good player, the whole package at the right price
to make the player region free:
Open the tray
-press [setup] on the remote
-select audio (down arrow)(down arrow)(right arrow)
-enter [2][1][2][2][2][5][right arrow][down arrow]
the menu CODE REGION appears
-enter [0] for region free.
- press [setup] on the remote.
You're done! ...
alexvl 01.08.2007 (31.07.2007)
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