Initial 10.2" Portable DVD Player - IDM-1250 Review

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(More customer reviews)We bought this unit to replace a Polaroid that gave out after about 6 months.Fortunately we had purchased the unit thru Target.com with the $30 extended warranty so we got a full refund of our purchase price.

Initially (no pun intended ;-) I was concerned about some of the comments I had seen from other reviewers.Ill address them individually below.

- The comment about having to always select dvd or usb or card isnt present on my unit.It does prompt when you first turn it on, but without selecting something other than dvd it quickly defaults to dvd and just starts playing the dvd.

- The comment about large jpg's freezing the unit.Well I guess it depends on what your definition of freeze is (and Im also a little unclear how your 20D had a picture on an SD card given the 20D has a compact flash slot).On my unit I have taken the SD card straight from my canon S500 (7.1 Megapixel) and put it in the player and looked at photos.Granted it takes the unit awhile (ie. read slow) to read in the large photos from my camera but it does it without crashing the player etc.

- The build quality of the unit seems much more rugged than the polaroid it replaced so it appears to be a good unit, but unfortunately with portable dvd players the true test is the test of TIME.Overall the reason we bought this player was because of DIVX.My daughter is a Wiggles, BluesClues, Hi-5 junkie.I record all of these shows on the Tivo (in Best Quality), transfer them to my PC, run them thru DirectshowDump, then thru the Divx encoder.I can get nearly 40 shows onto one DVD when they are all DIVX and the quality is just fine.Ill revise this post later if the device dies an early death, otherwise if you dont see a post from me you can safely assume that it is still running without incident.

I purchased this unit thru Target.com which has Amazon as the backend processor.The unit arrived very quickly and with good packaging as Ive come to expect from Amazon.

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John Cavanaugh

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Product Description:
Initial 10.2" portable DVD allows you to play back intormation form memory sticks as well as DVDs