Portable DVD Player Recommendations?

snapman asks: "My wife and I are looking to move to another state because of our respective job situations and we forecast a lot of travel (to return home to visit family and friends). We were looking at portable DVD players to help ease the boredom of long flights home, and we were wondering if the road warriors of the Slashdot community have any advice on the best portable DVD player (features, drawbacks, battery life, etc.)?"

Yes, it's a commercial site, but...

[hitzroth]

Portable DVD Store [portabledvdstore.com] has a section [portabledvdstore.com] about stuff to know when looking at portable DVD players.

Also, be sure to check Google [google.com] for more sites.

For my dollar I'd go with a notebook computer instead. The portable DVD players are kind of expensive for their lack of functionality. Small screens and short batery life don't paint a favorable picture for me. Not to mention that when you run out of DVD's you can always play solitare on your notebook.

Re:Check at Wal-Mart

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd look into this one [walmart.com] instead. Looks like the same machine, but it has a 16:9 screen. The other one looks like it has a 4:3 screen, which means widescreen DVDs would display letterboxes (and thus even smaller on the already tiny screen).

Re:Portable DVD player observation

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but the indecent ones are quite inexpensive. As low as $200.