Customer Reviews:
 Not a bad portable dvd player for the price October 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this product from Amazon for my son to watch on long car rides. I am satisfied with the picture quality (not bad, just ok) and all of the extra features of the Coby. One of the main reasons I selected this player was price and DivX support which it has, but I also thought that the SD card slot and USB would come in handy. I am a little annoyed that the player doesn't support SDHC cards. I bought an 8gb card with this player because it is a little quicker and easier to drop my son's tv shows on the card instead of burning them to dvd. Oh well, my wife can use it in her camera. Although this isn't a major issue be careful since 4gb regular sd (not HC) cards are the biggest you'll be able to use with this dvd player.
 Great DVD Player October 4, 2008
I bought this for an 11 hour road trip each way. This DVD player was great. Picture and sound were clear. I liked that it came with a holder you can use to hang it from the seat to view in the car. We didn't have any problems with it skipping. The price was great too.
 Unusable for MP3 collection playback September 27, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this player hoping to use it as an MP3 playback device, replacing my CD player, in my home stereo cabinet. (I've recently ripped my entire CD collection and have put the files onto a 32GB USB stick.) Unfortunately, the user interface for MP3 playback is unusable for anything beyond a small number of files.
- Coby's interface ignores filesystem hierarchy on the USB stick, so instead of allowing me to select one of the top-level directories I've created such as "classical" or "rock/pop" or "soundtracks", the Coby player simply scans the entire USB stick and presents me with a single list of several hundred subdirectories of MP3 files. No Coby, that's not how I ordered the files within the file system, and that's not how you should display them to me. Modern operating systems have understood the concept of "folders within folders" for 20 years now, but Coby's software doesn't.
- The interface shows only the first 6-10 characters of each directory name.
- There is no rapid-scroll feature or even an autorepeat when I hold down the remote's "down" button to choose a different directory (album). This means that if I want to play songs from the last album on the list, I'd have to press the down button on the remote hundreds of times.
If you have a small number of MP3 files on a USB stick then this player is probably fine, but with the advent of USB flash up to 64GB, and soon even larger, it's simply not acceptable for a device that claims to support "MP3 and video playback off of external USB device" to not understand the basic concept of file hierarchy.
Excellent Product, Worth Buying, Lot of accessories September 3, 2008
I bought this product couple of weeks before. Picture and Sound Quality are too good. I found lot of accessories comes with this product. The headphone that comes along with this is also good. This player plays all the formats as described in Amazon. I mainly bought this product because it has USB port. Using Flash drive (2GB) via USB port I watch movies. This player really has lot of features. I feel this product is worth for the amount I paid.
Coby portable dvd player August 30, 2008
This product's versatility in allowing you to view in several formats and the use of thumb drive for watching movies is very practical.
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