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[maggieworkman]

Best Buy has a 5" screen portable DVD player for $149 after a $30 rebate. You pay $179 and then send in the $30 rebate. I have been watching prices and I think this is a good deal. Just don't forget to send in your rebate. I bought mine on Bestbuy.com so I could get bonus points from ordering through MyPoints reward program. Bestbuy.com is offering free shipping too!

We will use this on our long road trip to WDW from Chicago.

Maggie

[Bert & Sully]

Thanks Maggie. My sister is looking for this for their move from NY to Chicago.

[maggieworkman]

We received our portable DVD player in the mail and it is soooooo cool. Even DH, who thought it was a waste of money - you know, "When I was young the only thing we had to do on long car trips was look out the window" - was impressed.

It came with a battery that clips on, a car adapter and a regular plug into the wall. The picture quality is very good and the sound quality was great!

Maggie

[Wendyismyname]

You just convinced me that we need to invest in one for any trips longer than 2 hours!! Thanks!! This time next year, they'll probably be even less!!

Wendy

[mrsmaup]

We have a 7" portable DVD and its AMAZING!! I love it!

We have to travel at a minimum of once a month from our home in ND to my son's dr in Minneapolis(6hours each way).

This really does make the time go by faster and keeps the peace better on these long road trips.

We will be taking ours on the plane and running it off of the batteries. The kids will share a headphone set and watch a flick while dh and I snooze or read

[pmlskr]

We bought one and it makes the trips to Va Beach and Buffalo so much nicer. My sons are so quiet and it took 20 min for my 61/2 Ds to learn how to operate it. I think for the drive to WDW I will invest in head phones for some peace and quiet, one can only listen to Monsters Inc. so many times. Just remeber that you may want to purchase a holder/bag for car trips so no-one has to hold it the entire time. We bought ours from Circuit City for $240 and it included all the cords and batteries, plus a carry bag, remote, and hanging bag for between the seats.

I wish I had had one of these growing up, took many trips up and down the Eastern seaboard and out to Colorado twice.

Pam

[Cameron's mom]

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Just remeber that you may want to purchase a holder/bag for car trips so no-one has to hold it the entire time.

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Not only that, but it's much safer to have it anchored down somehow.

[JoanW]

We got two of them last year on the day after Thanksgiving. DH went to Best Buy and stood in line with crazy women at 6:00 AM. It was sooo worth it. We were buying a new car and opted to not get the built in DVD player so that we could take them on the plane or into the hotel room. We also bit the bullet and bought two so there would be no fighting in the back seat. However. There's always a however! We had to get a headphone splitter for that rare time when they want to watch the same thing. It's a splitter that let's two sets of headphones plug into one unit. It also works on CD players. I also love it that they can listed to cd's if they don't want to watch a movie.

We bought our new car right after Christmas and were driving home on the first Road Trip, and the Sound of Music was playing in the back seat, and I was singing all the songs!

[dj2]

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We had to get a headphone splitter for that rare time when they want to watch the same thing. It's a splitter that let's two sets of headphones plug into one unit. It also works on CD players.

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Radioshack sells a 3-way splitter! (boy was it worth it!)
headphones plug into the splitter and then splitter plugs into whatever you'd normally plug the headphones into, so it works with anything (tv/vcr combos, walkmen, dvd players, etc.).