This is a great portable player for kids on a trip or a visit--a wonderful cure for "I'm bored" in a pinch (including for other people's children that are brought somewhere ill-prepared for the time. But, although that's been a great by-product, I really got this for myself initially. I have a lot of very tedious work to do at home, mindless and boring desk work, and--after frying the video card of my laptop playing dvds--thought an inexpensive dvd player would be a much better alternative.

It's been great. Just plug in and go. It also has an A/V connector (supplied) so it was easy to use as a dvd player hooked up to a tv or monitor with A/V input. The picture quality on a large screen isn't "amazing"--this isn't blue-ray--but I thought it was perfectly fine.

It also plays just as well off the car battery (connector supplied). And the small screen (about a third bigger than PSP--and about 4x bigger than a smart phone screen) was perfectly fine, too... Read more

My 5 1/2yr old son loves to take his movies with him. He's autistic therefore developementally delayed so he can be hard on electronics. We had originally bought a Phillips and were disgusted with it's performance, battery only lasted 30 minutes and it wouldn't play while it was charging so this was not going to work for us.

We took a chance and ordered this one online without seeing it in person and I'm so glad we did. The size and weight is perfect for him and it's pretty easy to use. The battery has been averaging about 3hrs and it can continue playing while it recharges. Of course it takes longer to charge this way but it does play and charge at the same time.

He has dropped it at least twice (once hard enough the dvd fell out) and spilled a soda on the control panel and still works as well as it did the day we opened it!

We are so happy with it that we are going to order a 2nd one so we will have a backup if this one gets broken.

Nice design
Well built
Good feature set
Acceptable screen, wish it had better picture quality, contrast/resolution.
Battery life OK, more expensive Sonys have longer life, wish battery was user replaceable.
Good player for the Kids in car, waiting room, etc.