Review on Ematic 7&#34 Television & Video by Will Anderson

This is a handy little DVD player when you need it. We've used it a lot and it's holding up well. Then why 2 stars?!? Because nothing that came with it didn't survive at all. The charger broke after about a month of use. The headphones were used maybe twice before not working at all. And the carrying case is useless because you can't put the player, charger and headphones together. I bought it for my kids before we went to China for a semester because I knew we would like to see some shows and movies in English. We've been using it almost daily for the past few months and I now use it as a CD player, although the DVD function still works, only now we don't have to use it like that anymore. I'd say the battery probably only lasts an hour or two when unplugged, so it's not ideal for road riding or anything. And we bought different cables to see if we could use them to play movies on our TV but nothing helped. I can't think of many situations where this device would be really useful to you. My kids were hungry for American TV so three kids crowded around the 7 inch screen to watch the DVDs I brought (it doesn't play foreign DVDs) so for us it was better than nothing. It was solid and the volume on the player without headphones was just enough to sit back and still hear well, so I was happy with that.