Initial 10.2" Portable DVD Player - IDM-1250

by Initial Technology

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7 x 1.5 inches ; 4.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00073K4PQ
• Item model number: Initial IDM-1250
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,813 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Initial 10.2" portable DVD allows you to play back intormation form memory sticks as well as DVDs

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good so far..., September 1, 2005

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John Cavanaugh - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Initial 10.2" Portable DVD Player - IDM-1250 (Electronics)

We bought this unit to replace a Polaroid that gave out after about 6 months. Fortunately we had purchased the unit thru Target.com with the $30 extended warranty so we got a full refund of our purchase price.

Initially (no pun intended ;-) I was concerned about some of the comments I had seen from other reviewers. Ill address them individually below.

- The comment about having to always select dvd or usb or card isnt present on my unit. It does prompt when you first turn it on, but without selecting something other than dvd it quickly defaults to dvd and just starts playing the dvd.

- The comment about large jpg's freezing the unit. Well I guess it depends on what your definition of freeze is (and Im also a little unclear how your 20D had a picture on an SD card given the 20D has a compact flash slot). On my unit I have taken the SD card straight from my canon S500 (7.1 Megapixel) and put it in the player and looked at photos. Granted it takes the unit awhile (ie. read slow) to read in the large photos from my camera but it does it without crashing the player etc.

- The build quality of the unit seems much more rugged than the polaroid it replaced so it appears to be a good unit, but unfortunately with portable dvd players the true test is the test of TIME.


Overall the reason we bought this player was because of DIVX. My daughter is a Wiggles, BluesClues, Hi-5 junkie. I record all of these shows on the Tivo (in Best Quality), transfer them to my PC, run them thru DirectshowDump, then thru the Divx encoder. I can get nearly 40 shows onto one DVD when they are all DIVX and the quality is just fine.


Ill revise this post later if the device dies an early death, otherwise if you dont see a post from me you can safely assume that it is still running without incident.

I purchased this unit thru Target.com which has Amazon as the backend processor. The unit arrived very quickly and with good packaging as Ive come to expect from Amazon.

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John Cavanaugh

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Flawed, April 27, 2005

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Telstar - See all my reviews

This review is from: Initial 10.2" Portable DVD Player - IDM-1250 (Electronics)

There are several picky cons I have with the player:

1. There is no auto - resume function. The previous player I had would resume playback from the last position if the disc was removed and reinserted or other functions on the unit interrupted playback. With this unit, it is easy to press a button (such as source or menu) and the player stops and restarts at the main menu rather than continuing.

2. There is no contrast adjustment. The screen adjustment controls are cumbersome at best.

3. The manual on USB and smart card use is near useless. Prepare to experiment.

4. The two magnetic catches for the screen reflect light brightly and sometimes distract from viewing the screen. They should have been colored black like the rest of the unit.

5. There are no fast forward and reverse control buttons on the unit, only on the remote (which is not upgraded from the earliest Initial DVD players).

6. The remote is minimalist: No A-B, repeat, etc. and the OSD is is gigantic!!! It covers the top 6th of the screen when on.

7. Most irritating is that when you turn the player on, you must menu select DVD, USB, or CARD every single time. The USB and CARD are for playing picture discs. This is a very bad design...the system should come up in DVD mode, and THEN you select with a button if you want to change to USB or CARD picture mode.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great unit- some features need explaining, March 23, 2005

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Don Quijote "Miura" (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Initial 10.2" Portable DVD Player - IDM-1250 (Electronics)

Bought unit yesterday
Impressed w/ screen quality. Plays my DVD's -R, +R, -RW. AV in/out is wonderful (not found in many units)
Has many buttons on unit, not remote.
At first USB port froze when connecting an outside source (I tried 3 types). Went back to CompUSA: Same Freeze problem! Initial was no help. Since I don't give up easily I tried again w/ Compusa geek: found out that large files (3MB pictures from a Canon 20D)freeze unit but if you reduce size of pix to 100-300KB the player works beautifully. I now use it at home as a Digital picture frame, showing 100's of pics flawlessly and in continuous mode!!
Except for Initial's support I would change rating to 5/5 on my edited review on the basis of quality of unit.