This Summer we did our annual road trip from Washington to Colorado, this year with our 3 year old and .5 year old we decided it might be a good idea to pick up a portable DVD player, they seemed cheap and can always be plugged into TV to play indoors as well. I originally planed on getting one of the cheapest ones I could find, which is usually my goal, and rarely what I end up doing.

The cheaper portable DVD players seem to be the fold out kind, similar to laptops and they seem to have a few less features, such as video in, just incase you wanted to play a video game on them or plug in your video camera (more likely). After reviewing online sites, and vowing never to go to Best Buy ever again, I decided on the:

Nu Tech CineTrek WDR041 Portable DVD Player

Manufacturer:
NUTech Site

Retailer: (also available at newegg)
ZipZoom Fly site

Price $209-$50 rebate = $159 no tax or shipping

Pros:

• Accessories. Comes with a number of accessories that are useful. A bag for the batteries and wires, and important to me, a strap for connecting to the back of a car headrest (which seems like it would fit any size car.
• Small. It easily fits in front of the kids, without hanging all over the place.
• Full Function Remote control (more controls than the unit has, don�t loose it)
• Flip function to flip the picture over. A small but usful feature since the power plug in the car might be on the right or left of the player where it plugs in� so you end up not having to string wires over the kids.

Cons:

• Not very loud, Isabella constantly asked for it to be turned up, but with headphones it is as good as anything else.
• Subtitle default to on (there may be a setting for this)
• Screen not very well protected
• Does not seem very rugged (though I have not had any trouble)
• If you loose the remote, you loose a lot of controls

Since getting back from the trip, and moving to a new place, where we do not have cable and did not setup a TV in our room, this little player with the kickstand has been a nice way to watch Netflix in bed, either on the nightstand or on the bed.