Philips PET710 7" Widescreen Portable DVD Player

Average customer rating: 4.0

The perfect player!
Sorry, but it just didn't cut it.
I will never buy one agian
So easy my dad can use it.
Very good, but not completely

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Philips PET710 7" Widescreen Portable DVD Player

Manufacturer: Philips
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0009YBG2S

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Product Description

Sit back, relax and immerse in movies on the go with the ultra cool and compact PET710 with 7-inch TFT LCD display. Enjoy your favorite DVD movies, savor your MP3-CD and CD music or playback your JPEG photos anytime, anyplace.

Amazon.com Product Description

Keep yourself or your kids entertained on long flights or road trips with the Philips PET710/37 portable DVD player with a widescreen 7-inch screen, enabling you to enjoy DVD movies in their original 16:9 aspect ratio format. This compact unit weighs less than 2 pounds (excluding battery) and is powered by a rechargeable NiMH battery, AC adapter, and car power adapter (all included).

The PET710/37's LCD screen has a 480 x 234-pixel resolution, 30 ms (millisecond) response time, a brightness rating of 400 cd/m2 (candela per square meter), and 250:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a screen's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.) It's compatible with a wide variety of disc and file formats, including DVD movie, CD audio, DVD+R/RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, MP3, and JPEG (Picture CD). It features anti-skip buffers for different formats, including 2 seconds for DVDs, 5 seconds for VCD, and 10 seconds for standard audio CDs and CDs burned with MP3 files.

Disc playback modes include A-B repeat, multi-angle selection, disc menu, fast backward/forward, repeat, shuffle play, slow backward/forward, and zoom. Other features include PAL/NTSC video output, parental controls, and aspect ratio conversion. The rechargeable battery has a battery life of up to 2.5 hours and a recharge time of 3 hours. It offers the following connections: headphone, line-out, composite video, and digital coaxial audio for Dolby DTS surround sound.

<b>What's in the Box</b>
Portable DVD player, battery, AC adapter, car power adapter, video cable, audio cable (RCA to mini), remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions

Customer Reviews:

The perfect player!.......2007-05-22

I bought this DVD player actually 15 months ago when my daughter was born and now I am searching for a case. I read the reviews on this machine and was taken back by some of the bad comments. I use this machine constantly and all of the negatives about battery life, not playing movies, screen size, not being able to use in a car, etc, is just not true. Are you sure you have this machine? It's the best DVD player I have ever had, this is by far the best one. The color is great, battery life is LONG like 5 hours and it's easy to use. We have never had problems with volume or anything like that. It's great for the price, we have had MANY great hours with this machine. Would recommend to everyone, don't listen to these other folks!!

Sorry, but it just didn't cut it........2007-04-26

I think I'll start off by listing the positives:

It's loud. I mean, I don't even have to play it on full volume. That's probably my favorite part of it.
Also, it's pretty sturdy and I LOVE the metal surface.
OK, I'm running out of good...

The main reason I give this a two rating is because the damn thing doesn't want to play my DVDs. I think it has played two of my DVDs and that's it. I just put in American Beauty about five minutes ago and it says, "Unknown Disc". I decide to put in "The Little Mermaid" next which I wanted to watch but to a lesser degree and I get a "No Disc" message.

Even when it did work, I still had to navigate through some weird menu that pops up and I seriously had no idea what to do. Not because I'm dumb, but because the options they gave you didn't make much sense.

This DVD player really sucked the fun out of the whole "buying my first portable DVD player" idea. I was even willing to get passed the fact that the DVD, when initially loading, is pretty loud. But it's inexcusable that it just doesn't want to play my movies.

NOT RECOMMENDED. STAY FAR, FAR AWAY!

I will never buy one agian.......2007-04-22

I have had nothing but problems out of mine. first off, the screen went out due to a factory defect only 3 months after buying, got it fixed, and went out agian. I just took the piece of junk nad threw it away. I wouldnt waist my time with it.

So easy my dad can use it........2007-04-05

My sister and I purchased this DVD player for my father. I think it has good picture and sound. However, the volume could go a little louder. I found it very easy to use. Which is a benefit because my dad is not good with electronics.

Very good, but not completely.......2007-03-27

The Philips PET710 DVD Player is a superb machine for viewing DVD films;
however, it suffers from one omission: the lack of a time/place counter.
One never knows where he is in the film, how much time has lapsed and
how much yet remains. This is a problem when, after shutting down, one
tries to find the point of continuing at a later hour.

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