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Initial 10.2" Portable DVD Player - IDM-1250 | 
 enlarge | Brand: Initial Technology
Category: CE
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $171.95
You Save: $28.04 (14%)
New (3) from $171.95
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 51980
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 10.2
Battery: 1 Lithium
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7 x 1.5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: Initial IDM-1250
Model: Initial IDM-1250
UPC: 830122004163
EAN: 0830122004163
ASIN: B00073K4PQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Features a 10.2" active matrix color LCD TFT screen | | • | Component Video/Progressive Scan Output | | • | Includes rechargeable lithium battery, 120V AC and 12V car adapters, remote control and audio and video cables | | • | Plays DVDs/CDs/CD-R/RWs/Kodak Picture CDs | | • | 9H x 5W x 13L" |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Initial creates cutting-edge digital entertainment products with the highest standards of quality and affordability.PRODUCT FEATURES:Versatile Playback Formats: DVD, JPEG, Kodak Picture CD;10.2" Active Matrix LCD Screen (TFT);Composite Video Output / Input;Component Video Output;Progressive Scan Video Output;Dolby Digital Sound Output;DTS Sound Output;Audio Output / Input;Digital Coaxial Output;Dual Hi-Fi Stereo Headphone Output;USB 1 / SD / MMC / Memory Stick Compatibility.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Poor Photo Feature December 3, 2005
Gary Gildemeister
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought one of these units back in March from online Wal-Mart. The picture quality for DVD's was excellent. The sound was good too and it had many features not found in other competitors. I really started to like this unit a lot until I placed the CF card from my digital camera into their card slot. Again, the picture quality was excellent when in full screen mode. When viewing in thumbnail mode, the pictures were quite blurry. This was okay since I wouldn't normally use this mode anyway. What really turned me off was the slide show feature. Each picture is displayed for 30 seconds regardless of the picture's resolution. There was no button to force advancement to the next slide or to alter the time slice. This was unacceptable and the reason I returned the unit.
Initial DVD player October 28, 2005
Jeremy (Fort Wayne, IN)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I got this DVD player I thouht it was great, the features are nice and the i/o ports are many. After about 3 weeks the super sensitive switch that shuts the lcd off when the lid closes started shutting the screen off even when the lid was open, the weight of the white plastic pin held the switch down. Then the next week the hinges gave out, they are solid metal hinges anchored to very soft and brittle plastic, very annoying.
 Better than a laptop. September 29, 2005
Raymond C. Dove
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have a Powerbook G4 with a 17" display that I was using to play DVD's. I thought it was too big and the battery life too short. I decided to purchased a dedicated portable DVD player. I was pleasantly surprised by the workmanship and the quality of the unit. I would highly recommend this player. I recommend the 10" screen.
Nice Player September 18, 2005
video rock (maryland)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The IDM-1250 does have an A-B repeat mode to it, and what I like is when playing cd's you can keep the screen closed,and the advance buttons and pause and play buttons are on the front,so you don't need the remote to change to different tracks.The picture is just as good as the Philips with 12bit video dacs,and you get the added features of the multi-card reader and USB port.The sound is not bad as far as voulme through the built in speakers,but like other players using headphones makes quite a difference.I would recommend this player to those who like a larger screen portable,as a side note it will read dvd-rw in the vr-mode.
Good so far... September 2, 2005
John Cavanaugh
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
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
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