Philips PD9012/37 9-Inch LCD Dual Screen Portable DVD Player, Black

• The Philips D9012 (Region free) featuring two 9 inch TFT LCD display screens let you indulge in enjoying your DVD movies, music and photos on the road. Install and mount easily for in-car enjoyment.
• Dual screens allow you to display same videos or images from the portable DVD players. Simply plug in and mount the screens on the headrests in your car
• The high resolution color LCD display brings images to life, showing off your treasured photos, favorite movies and music with the same 'real life' rich detail and vibrant colors as high quality prints
• The Philips Portable DVD player is compatible with most DVD and CD discs available in the market. DVD, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, (S)VCD, and CD - all of them can play on the DVD player.
• Play JPEG photos that are saved on your disc. Relive your favorite moments with family and friends anytime you want!

We have this mounted in the car and it is been use day in day out. From short grocery store trips to long weekend road trips. Plays every thing that has been thrown at it. Never had a single issue, no skips or freezes. Robustly built and comes with all the necessary cables and strips to mount on the head reset. Either you need 110V or 12V in the rear of the car. Then just push the wires through the sides of the car-seat back and be done. Nice and clean, it looks very professional. It also has headphone output, so that I dont have to constantly bombarded with go Diego go song all the time. Video is bright and crisp, it has a good viewing angle even during day time. I wish it had support for battery so that we can use it during camping. It constantly needs to be connected to power. Apart from that I have zero complaints. Fantastic price for dual screen DVD that works all the time. It can continue to play where it left every time the car starts, a must for long trips. I dont want to go back and tinker with it when ever I stop for gas or coffee break.

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Bought this product, worked great for a few hours but then the second screen abruptly went dark. I couldn't believe it went kaput that fast, but I checked all the connections and settings very carefully. No dice.

Took it back to the place of purchase for another one. SAME thing happened: it took a bit longer but again the second screen stopped showing video (though it continued to play sound).

Once I could see as a fluke, but not twice so my recommendation is to avoid this Phillips product. Too bad because it has nice sized screens and decent image quality when it was working.

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I'm a little surprised by the low reviews on this, but I can't speak as to DivX support, and I knew going in that these are single player, linked systems as I researched on Philips website. These are great little DVD players for the car if you don't mind having only one DVD player to control. I thought the picture on these were good, sound is also decent (took another set of these to get it working, but I'll explain later) and these strap very well to the headrest or seats. I love that they don't wobble around. They are secure which ultimately makes them safer for kids to use in the car. There isn't a remote, but to be honest, I used to try to use our other player's remote and it was a miserable experience from the front seat. (My kids are too young to control the remote themselves)

Now for the bad....these are made by Philips, thus my four star review. I have another Philips portable DVD player and had to send it back to them for replacement after two months it refused to read the discs anymore no matter how you put them in there. They ended up sending me a new one, but it took a month or two. As far as this specific set, I ordered this and had to send them back to Amazon immediately as they did not produce any audio whatsoever. No audio through headphone jack or through speakers on units with volume all the way up. Amazon was great as always. They had me another set of these within two days and the newer set worked perfectly.

These are great players when they are working. They fit the car well, right height, good picture and sound, and they don't skip. I can't speak to long term durability yet but am a little put off by having to get another set of these just to get one that was fully operational. It's kind of a gamble, but I have dealt with Philips support before and found them to be responsive within the warranty period. This was a much cheaper and better option for us to purchase rather than having the DVD player built into the car so I figure even if I have to go through a couple of these, I am still way ahead money wise of where I would have been. I saw Philips is coming out with a set of 9 inch dual players that do allow both units to play different things but haven't seen it hit Amazon yet so keep that in mind when deciding.

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I looked forward to buying this even though some reported quality issues in a few other reviews. But hey, nothing is perfect, there is always a few yield failures, chance of getting hit is low if quality is reasonable.

I received the new players and my kids loved them.

YET *** After 2 weeks the slave unit (without the DVD drive) had the video die. At first I thought the A/V cable between the 2 units got loose as it is a short cable, too short by about 1 foot. The problem was not the cable.

Philips online chat support was nice but it did take them 12 days to send me the replacement unit.

OK, almost a month after purchase I received the replacement unit and the kids loved the dual players, UNFORTUNATELY *** The replacement unit also had the slave unit video die after only 1 week. UUGGGHHHHHH, This is a design issue, my babies don't touch the unit, their is a defective design. I just finished online chat support with Philips and they are going to send me another replacement unit........

Too bad the reliability / quality is very poor. I would not buy again.

June 2, 2011: Got another replacement unit from Philips;

June 17, 2011: SLAVE UNIT STOPPED OUTPUTTING VIDEO!

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Everything about this unit the kids love.... for about 5-12 days until the video of slave unit stops working!!!!!

Note, my last Mustek portable DVD player lasted 4 years of everyday car use before giving up the data.......

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I bought this as a Christmas present for my 2 nieces...The quality of the picture is very good, and it is very easy to set up...Glad I bought the 9 inch monitor over the 7 inch..