Toshiba SD-P2800 portable DVD player

Posted by T3 Online on Thu 1 Nov 2007

A heavyweight portable DVD player, but not in the good sense...

This portable DVD player has two things you won't find on any video jukebox: an obscenely large screen and DVD-Audio playback!

The screen's viewing angle is impressively wide, which comes in handy if a couple of mates want to watch a movie too. It's also sufficiently high-resolution to capture plenty of detail, ensuring that a DVD of Donnie Darko doesn't live up to its murky title.

There are plenty of added features, too: dual headphone sockets, DivX playback and a card reader for playing music and viewing photos. You can hook the player up to a TV via component video for excellent, progressively scanned playback, or use its nine-inch screen as a display for a games console, camcorder or other external video device.

Then there's the battery: it charges in an hour and gives you four-and-a-half hours of video playback. It's touches like this that make this Tosh a fantastic portable DVD player. It's not going to reinvigorate its market, but if you want movies on the go, and you're not a fan of more compact PMPs, look no further.