Philips PET708/37 Portable DVD Player with Dual LCD Display Screens and Car Mount Kit

by Philips

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inches ; 6.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000N81C3S
• Item model number: PET708/37
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,376 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

The PET708/37 is a portable DVD player with dual 7" LCD screens. It comes with a Car Mount Kit. You can enjoy your favorite DVD movies, MP3-CD, CD and CD-RW music and your JPEG photos.

Customer Reviews

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Portable Option, June 25, 2007

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D. Morehouse - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips PET708/37 Portable DVD Player with Dual LCD Display Screens and Car Mount Kit (Electronics)

I went and purchased this on a whim after my 10.2 inch DVD died after 2 months. This has two screens that mount to the headrest in a very secure manner, which eliminates the 'swing' problem of the one DVD screen strapped between the seats. The mount is very secure and is at a good height for my children to view it in the backseat of our minivan. I like the controls and the ease of use. The picture is excellent quality.

The con is that the battery cannot be used when the player is mounted on the headrest because it covers the connections, so it must be plugged into the cigarette lighter for car viewing. Not a big deal for us, but something to keep in mind.

This player seems better quality than my previous player. I would recommend the extended warranties for these - they get banged around a lot and are fragile.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TERRIBLE! DO NOT BUY!!!, February 3, 2008

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S. Burklin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips PET708/37 Portable DVD Player with Dual LCD Display Screens and Car Mount Kit (Electronics)

My wife and I bought this from Target in anticipation of a long road trip with the kids. Having read horror stories about portable DVD players, I took it out of the box right away and tested it. Everything ran fine. Right as we were leaving, I installed the player in the car and it instantly would find any disc I would insert. We delayed our trip departure for 45 minutes to exchange it at Target for a working unit, which ran fine the entire 4 hours of the trip. Then, two days later, it froze in the middle of a DVD. Upon restart, every DVD gave the same "No Disc" error after spinning for about 3 minutes. The Philips support site seems to recognize that there is an issue, but then insults you by suggesting that everything has to do with the laser lens not being clean. I am returning it to Target again today and will not be re-purchasing.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Took a beating, July 8, 2009

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KempFam (Milwaukee, WI, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips PET708/37 Portable DVD Player with Dual LCD Display Screens and Car Mount Kit (Electronics)

We bought this system for our daughters over two years ago, and it only just failed after receiving a ninja kick from my 2 1/2 year-old. Is it as good as a built in system? Probably not. But it wasn't my daughter's first kick that knocked out the system, it was her hundredth, so we'll be replacing it with another Philips player set. Only complaint, which was stated in other reviews is that the battery covers the car mount point on the back of the player, so you can't charge the battery while it's being watched while mounted in the car. Despite the product advise of "please remove player and mount when not in use", it spent 90% of it's life hooked up in the car, so the battery issue wasn't a frequent problem, but it was an inconvenient one, since it was usually so long between times where I dismounted it, the battery was usually dead anyway. Only other feature I'd love to see is just the seemingly simple ability to hook up an ipod video cable to this system. It would be reeeeeaaaaallly nice to be able to keep the iPod up front, where I can control it, while having its video displayed in back for the kids. DVDs are slowly going the way of the dodo bird, so forward compatibility would be nice. Although, given my daughter's penchant for punishing the poor thing, it probably wouldn't outlive the DVD obsolescence anyway.