Customer Reviews

Mintek MDP-1010 10.2-Inch Widescreen Portable DVD Player

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Bought at COSTCO before the holidays for $350 or so, included carrying bag, two noise suppression headphones (cheap, uncomfortable, but work good), cords and of course 10.2 player. Great picture, all the bells and whistles of other top brands. Bottom line is LARGE screen, with all necessary features, for lower price. Have used for two long trips, including a trip to Hawaii with three kids beating on it and the DVD player survived even if I didn't. Check out when shopping for a player. Only negatives are it's a bit heavy due to the large battery pack and sound through built in speakers is pretty soft. Sound through headsets or hooked to soundsystem works fine.

I ordered this device through amazon about 6 weeks ago. It seemed like a great deal compared to the price of other portable dvd players. When I first received it everything seemed to be in working order. The monitor display was crisp, and the audio was mediocre. However within 24 hours of me opening the box, the ac adapter failed to work at all. The only way I could get power to my device was buy using my cigarette lighter adapter. If I wanted to charge the players battery I had to use my car. I called Minteks customer support and they said they would call me back within a week to solve the problem. 6 weeks later and I have yet to receive their call back. If this wasnt bad enough, 6 weeks after opening the box the player completely failed on me. Any dvd I put in my player now cannot ever be read. I kept the player in fine condition, never bumping or dropping it, and one day it just stopped working. Since the warranty lasts only a month I cannot get a refund, so basically I feel I like I have had $300 practically stolen from me.

Techies, purchased what appears to be the Costco package of the 10.2" Mintek their MDP-1070. It has poor compatibility with a wide range of DVD media. I own a Panasonic set-top DVD burner, have used the discount media such as GQ from Fry's and other bargains. Virtaully all failed to work on this player. Then took the same disks to Fry's and tried their players. The 7" Sony (the one I will be buying next) played them all without a hickup. The Panasonic did too, as well as the Samsung. Watch out for the Toshiba--there were issues here too. The Mintek which is feature rich, attracted me because of the SD memory card slot and USB port. However, what I discovered was that a good player such as the Sony and Samsungs seem to have a composite INPUT which allows you to hookup your digital camera or camcorder directly, so both the SD card slot and the USB slot are only nice-to-haves, not show stoppers. The "noise-cancelling" headphones (as do most of the cheapies) with the Mintek produce hiss from the cheap electronics. The hiss is so annoying that you may want to shut-off their amp (you can still use headphones without the amp/noise cancellation). And the cancellation ability is virtaully non-existant around the house with higher frequencies (may work with lower frequencies on a plane--but did nothing in my bathroom with the exhaust fan on). If you are a digital photography buff (stills/camcorder) watchout for the Pansonic portable dvd players, apparently they do not have video inputs. The super high end ones may have an SD memory card slot though. The Mintek manual is in Changlish, a combination of English with some poor Chinese/English translation. It is very limited in usefullness. Think I accidentally discovered in the manual that the battery life was 2.5 hours--this is hiden on the Mintek website, on all packaging and at Costco.

After 5 months the thing stopped working, for no apparent reason (it wasn't abused; in fact it was only used a few times). Mintek was utterly unresponsive. I called their tech support twice (once to be greeted with "mailbox full") and left an email on their website and nobody ever contacted me. I never got a live person on the phone. If you want to take a chance, it's a great little player, but beware, the company does not stand behind its products.

The latest 10.2 inch Mintek model is the MDP-1060. This was offered by Costco in summer-2005 with an included carry-case and 2 noise-reduction headsets for $299. The two models are very similar, but consider reading separate reviews for 1060. It seems to have better feedback.

I purchased the Mintek MDP-1020 and I only got about 25 hours of use from it and then it just died-wouldn't take a charge from any source. I would not buy another!

For the short time that this unit functioned, it provided a nice sized screen with poor quality sound. The sound issue was overcome by using speakers or headphones, and I was quite satisfied until the system suddenly failed after approximately 100 hours of use. As I hadn't dropped the unit or caused any damage to it, I believe it might have been due to overheating. Unfortunately I can't recommend this system or the company that makes these products.

I like this DVD player, because the screen is large, and the price is right. I bought mine for $299 at Costco, complete with case, 2 headphones, remote and all the cords you need to travel, including a car adaptor. I was a little apprehensive about the reliability, but my little boy had been pushing all the buttons repeatedly, and it is still intact. Besides, at this price, I could get two for the price of one branded portable DVD player, and the reliability of those expensive players could also be hit and miss. Extended warranty is available at a reasonable price however. The warranty is only for 90 days and makes one wonder, because even Mintek itself does not seem to have a lot of confidence in their product if they are only guaranteeing that it will work reliably for only 90 days.

The screen is clear and bright, although the player is a little too noisy. Sound gets drowned by the noise of the car, if you use the installed speakers. Get an FM modulator or use the headphones. The controls in the remote are not all available in the player itself. The player can get very hot and I have the feeling that if I use it for over three hours, that it will stop working until the temperature of the player returns to normal. I have not taken it in a long trip so I do not know how it will perform on the road. It is pretty thin, but the battery can add a hefty weight to it. You have to take off the battery once it is fully charged, per warning in the manual.

Overall a good buy for the amount of money you pay for it.

We have never been able to get our MDP-1010 DVD player to work. Strangely, it will only play movies that have no commercials on them. That means we can only watch old movies like "The Princess Bride" or "The Last Unicorn." All of our newer movies like "Shrek2" have commercials on them and the player will ONLY play the commercials and not the movie. I called Mintek a couple of weeks ago for service and was told I'd receive a call back within 48 hours -- still haven't heard from them. If there were a choice of "0" for stars, that's what I'd give Mintek.

i love the new 10.2 mintek dvd player i bought here in st. louis. but, i'm debating on taking it back because the sound could be louder. i compared it to a 7inch audiovox, and there was great difference in the sound. if i keep it i would love to have a bag to hold it in my car.