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Philips PET708/37 Portable DVD Player with Dual LCD
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3 out of 5
The PET708/37 is a portable DVD player with dual 7 LCD screens. It comes with a Car Mount Kit. You can enjoy your favorite DVD movies, MP3-CD, CD and CD-RW music and your JPEG photos. ....read more
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Decent Player
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
A little hesistant to buy since target doesn’t have a samply one hooked up to see quality. Bought one and charged it and it didn’t read any new DVDs. Well, took it back thinking would get a different brand. But none of the other players, for the price, seem to match up. Its nice that the dvd player has a battery pack so we could take it on the plane. But also since it comes with the extra screen my daughter gets her own to watch as well. Plus I like the brackets to attach to my headrest easy and sturdy so far. Only drawback so far is you cant charge the battery if you have the monitor attached to the headrest. The removeable battery covers the mount hookup.
Good Portable Option
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I went and purchased this on a whim after my 10.2 inch DVD died after 2 months. This has two screens that mount to the headrest in a very secure manner, which eliminates the ‘swing’ problem of the one DVD screen strapped between the seats. The mount is very secure and is at a good height for my children to view it in the backseat of our minivan. I like the controls and the ease of use. The picture is excellent quality.
The con is that the battery cannot be used when the player is mounted on the headrest because it covers the connections, so it must be plugged into the cigarette lighter for car viewing. Not a big deal for us, but something to keep in mind.
This player seems better quality than my previous player. I would recommend the extended warranties for these – they get banged around a lot and are fragile.
Did not fit our car’s head restraints
). We considered using Velcro straps or longer screws to mount the unit in our Volvo, but decided it wasn’t worth the risk of it flopping around.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
We purchased this at Target prior to reading any reviews. To our dismay, the head restraint mounts are more suited for a 1978 Nova (no offense to Nova owners
We called Phillips customer support, and they were no help. They acted like we were the first people to call and inquire if they had a different mounting system.
I’m sure it’s a nice dvd player, but we just can’t get past the fact that we can’t use it in our car as advertised or as we intended. We’re going to return the unit. Unless your head restraints are adjustable with posts between the seatback and the top portion, keep shopping.
TERRIBLE! DO NOT BUY!!!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
My wife and I bought this from Target in anticipation of a long road trip with the kids. Having read horror stories about portable DVD players, I took it out of the box right away and tested it. Everything ran fine. Right as we were leaving, I installed the player in the car and it instantly would find any disc I would insert. We delayed our trip departure for 45 minutes to exchange it at Target for a working unit, which ran fine the entire 4 hours of the trip. Then, two days later, it froze in the middle of a DVD. Upon restart, every DVD gave the same “No Disc” error after spinning for about 3 minutes. The Philips support site seems to recognize that there is an issue, but then insults you by suggesting that everything has to do with the laser lens not being clean. I am returning it to Target again today and will not be re-purchasing.
Very unhappy with this DVD player
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
This is the 4th portable DVD player we have owned and by far the worst! We previously had another Philips single DVD player that was great, but it was stolen so we got this one instead. SAVE YOUR $$$. Half the time it doesn’t play the DVD at all.
Worked for 6 months then it stopped working
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
We purchased this product at Target receiving good reviews from their website. It worked well for 5 1/2 months but recently we were receiving NO disc error’s we cleaned the eye with electronic cleaner per Phillips website but still will not work. When putting the DVD in it reads no disc and sounds like it will play the dvd but then stops with error message. Do not make the same mistake we did by purchasing this player.
Worked only Once
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
We bought this DVD player for a car trip, and it worked great the first trip back in March. We’ve always been very careful with it, and have kept it in a very nice case. When we got it out to take on the 2nd trip, I didn’t even try it, but once we got going, it didn’t work. The disc won’t spin at all. I was on hold with customer support for 45 minutes, but they are finally sending out a new comparable replacement model. Hopefully that one will work at least one more time than this one did.
NO DISC Error
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
We bought at target. We used for about 3 months then we start receiving the NO DISC error message I tried cleaning the lens as Philips suggested but NO luck. The support also broke very easily, it’s not kid’s resistent.
Terrible choice.
Portable Dvd
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This product is bad, some time it doesn’ t work, I dont know what hapend because is new, please if you can help me to resolved this problem, let me know.
Thank you
This same DVD is our second one
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We used the first one for 2.5 years until my daughter broke it. It got beat left and right. We used in Jamica, and Europe and across USA. Overall a great product thats why we bought the second one.
Took a beating
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We bought this system for our daughters over two years ago, and it only just failed after receiving a ninja kick from my 2 1/2 year-old. Is it as good as a built in system? Probably not. But it wasn’t my daughter’s first kick that knocked out the system, it was her hundredth, so we’ll be replacing it with another Philips player set. Only complaint, which was stated in other reviews is that the battery covers the car mount point on the back of the player, so you can’t charge the battery while it’s being watched while mounted in the car. Despite the product advise of “please remove player and mount when not in use”, it spent 90% of it’s life hooked up in the car, so the battery issue wasn’t a frequent problem, but it was an inconvenient one, since it was usually so long between times where I dismounted it, the battery was usually dead anyway. Only other feature I’d love to see is just the seemingly simple ability to hook up an ipod video cable to this system. It would be reeeeeaaaaallly nice to be able to keep the iPod up front, where I can control it, while having its video displayed in back for the kids. DVDs are slowly going the way of the dodo bird, so forward compatibility would be nice. Although, given my daughter’s penchant for punishing the poor thing, it probably wouldn’t outlive the DVD obsolescence anyway.
Ok DVD, but the car mount is a JOKE
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Okay, I’ll admit the player itself works, but the car mount kit is a joke. It all depends on a flimspy plastic hinge that will break as soon as the temperature heats up.
Considering that the included car mount kit was the point of difference that influenced me to buy this device instead of other cheaper options, this is a big deal for me.
To be fair in the nearly two years I’ve owned it, the dvd has had no problems, but the car mount hinge is not worth the up charge from a more reasonably priced option.
Worked great!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We just took this DVD system on a 2000-mile road trip with our 1-year-old. It worked great! My only complaint is, as others have mentioned, that the battery can not be attached while the system is mounted.
Adequate
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
The phillipes portable dvd player is adequate. It does what it’s intended to do. I wish it were simpler to setup and that it didn’t make you restart the entire movie each time it shuts off. But considering my kids are 1 year and 3 weeks they don’t really seem to mind. It does what it’s intended to. Could be less expensive for what you’re getting.