LG DP781

I am so glad we purchased this player. After reading reviews I wasn't so sure. It has a nice picture and easy to understand buttons that even my 4 year old has figured out. We bought it for a 5 hour… airplane ride back East with our then 2 and 3 year old. It worked great. You can't hear the sound on an airplane. You have to use headphones, which is the only courteous thing to do. My kids wouldn't keep the headphones on so they just watched it. Since they are videos they have watch a zillion times, they don't care about the audio. We have used the player in our rental minivans on several trips, I bought a case that hangs between the seats. You could hear the player just fine. We have used the player on 3 subsequent plane rides. We have also used it to hook up to motel televisions to watch movies. Last month our old DVD player hooked up to our second TV in the house quit. Instead of buying a new one since we may go Blu-ray eventually, we hooked up this player to the TV. It works awesome. This little player has been through lots of things and it still works as well as it did when we bought it.

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I bought mine and after four or five months, it stopped functioning properly. First it started stopping. I would play the disc and again it would stop, even after I cleaned everything. Then it would run,… but not play. I bought mine from Best Buy which went out of business. I forgot about the player till it was time for another trip, so I called LG. Was told I would have to sent the player in, pay for shipping and handling. Also the pay $45 for labor and any parts required, as well as shipping and handling upon return. Tomorrow morning I will be looking for someone locally to repair it, if they can. Also, I agree with the other reviewers about the sound too. I have it on high and I can barely hear it. I would play it in the kitchen mostly, during the day, while everyone was at work. I gave it one star because I had to.

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I researched many different portable DVD players and settled on this one for two reasons: 1) the USB port, 2) Why not get an 8-inch screen? I read reviews of possible audio problems with this player but… haven't experienced any problems. I think the audio problems dealt with the volume when you didn't have headphones plugged in. But the reason you get a portable DVD player is to watch in on a long road trip or on the airplane. So why wouldn't you use your headphones? Based on this reason I can't complain about the audio output. It has two headphone ports which is very convenient. The menu buttons have a touch screen functionality which is very sexy. It comes with a remote, but you'd have to be extremely lazy to use a remote when you have your portable DVD player two feet in front of you. Nevertheless the remote works fine. The battery life was at least 5 hours. The screen rotates all around where you can close the lid with the screen facing out. A very nice feature if you'd want to attach it to the back of a car seat for any back seat viewers. The only knock would be the USB port. I got it so I could copy my digital copy of The Dark Knight onto a flash drive and then play it on this portable DVD player. This did not work. I do not believe this player has the capability of reading whatever kind of file a digital copy is because it could read other files. But in any case, this has been a top notch buy.

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I owned this product for just under a year. It was a gift, and I was not given the receipt. The DVD player worked great for about 11 months, when all of a sudden, it started saying "Disk Error", no matter… what disk I put in. I had the 'eye' cleaned - still same error. The player had a label on it stating it's manufacturing date. Even though I didn't have a receipt, LG refused to take it back, even given the manufacturing date.

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