High-end portable DVD players are a scam. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it. Sure you can pick up a Walmart special for $75, but those $200 models just don’t make sense when most people already have a notebook with an optical drive and a larger screen. But notebooks get hot and you might not want your little ones holding it for hours during a road trip. Enter the CradleVue. → Read More
Toshiba realizes their folly with HD DVD so they’re trying to make up for it with a wide variety of DVD players, portable DVD players and LCD TV/DVD combos. First up is the 22-inch widescreen LCD with 1680×1050 resolution and a contrast ratio of 1000:1. Response time is a blazing 5ms with HDMI and PC inputs as well as a thin chassis depth of 2.95-inches. It also supports WMA, MP3, JPEG and DiVX playback. The 19-inch model’s depth is a mere 2.64-inches and has the same specs. There’s also a white version. Yay! → Read More
If you’re lonely, don’t read any further. This product isn’t for you “live at home in Mom’s basement kind of geeks” like Vince. No, this device is for couples, people in love. You might have seen them on your TV. Maybe you pine about being part of one. Maybe you are, but that would really be weird. Anyway, the dual-audio out on this portable DVD player from Hammacher Schlemmer (we love that name) is wireless, not your standard dual-jack job. This means that not only do you get audio for two people (without the loss of volume you get when you use a splitter), but you also don’t have the distractions of your partners wires in front of the screen. We hate that. This would also be great for roadtrips with kids, as you could shut them the hell up without having to hear Nemo or Buzz Lightyear or Leatherface while on your way to the orphanage. The Dual Wireless Headphone Portable DVD Player [Hammacher Schlemmer] → Read More
These things are still completely alien to me. Back when I was a kiddie and my parents would chauffeur my friends and I around, we often hypothesized about the ability to play video games and watch movies in the backseat. I guess it was always inevitable, but it seemed rather impossible at the time. Anyway, for today’s kids, this is very much a reality. Rather than wishing for portable gaming I guess now they’re hoping for an acceptable viewing angle. Mustek has got them covered though. This new system features dual 7-inch TFT displays with 480 x 234 pixels capable of displaying 16:9 widescreen. The player works with CD and DVD and play MP3, DivX, XviD and AVI. And it has a Dolby Digital Decoder. It’s available for about $230. Mustek PD77 two screen DVD player [Tech Digest via UberGizmo] → Read More
