You get what you pay for pretty much sums up how I feel about this DVD player. I purchased 2 players, 1 for each child, in June 2010. In November 2010, my 4 year old wanted to switch the movie she was watching so I hit the stop button and opened the player to remove the disc. The first sign of trouble was the disc didn't stop spinning when the player was opened like it was supposed to. Turning the power off did stop the spinning, but when I removed the disc, I noticed that the laser didn't go back to it's start position. Because of this it can't recognize new discs. When I called Coby, they recommended getting a cleaning disc. This basically turned into a waste of $30. After trying that, I called Coby back and they said there was nothing that could be done and the unit was out of the 3 month labor warranty. Even though this was a problem with a part, since they would have to install a new laser it falls under the labor portion of the warranty. The player had become a paper weight. This player was mostly used on vacations and had not had a lot of use, so there was really no reason for it to break.
In case you think this was an isolated incident, the second player broke in exactly the same way in January 2011. It is really too bad because I really liked the tablet format and it worked much better for car installation than a laptop format. The tablet format is very difficult to find in a single unit version. For some reason most are sold a dual units that are for car use only; since they don't have a battery they can't be used on an airplane and both kids have to agree on a movie. While the players were working, they were good players and played movies for at least 4 hours before the battery ran out.
It's very disappointing since the format was good and the price was quite reasonable, but after 2 deaths in 6 months of ownership I decided not to get another Coby. This is the first review I've ever written, but I felt it was necessary to provide a longer term view than most of the 5 star reviews gave. I hope they have had better luck than I did (and I still have one more Coby player that was purchased to replace the first one), but since I put more stock in the lower ranked review (and read them first) I felt it was important to provide this information.