Rating: 
Summary: Life Saver and More
Review: To the person who wanted to fast forward playback using the buttons on the player (rather than the remote), this can be accomplished by pressing and holding down the button to skip to the next track. Press it again, and it goes faster. I do love the remote on this thing. The remote control weighs one ounce, with the battery! It measures 5"x2" and is less than 1/4" thick. Amazing. The player displays the video in whatever the original format is without distorting it. Awesome in many, many ways.I have been very happy with the performance of the SD-P2500. However, the motor burned out today after 5 months of ownership. I asked the technician how I could prevent it from happening again. According to him, portable dvd players just go out sometimes and that is a problem with all portable DVD players. Lucky we had bought a service agreement at a local store, because the warranty is 1 year parts and 90 days labor. I had previously given it 5 stars based on performance. However, when we spend this much money on something, we want to last for a long time.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent, but still expensive
Review: We bought the SD-P2500 for an 8-hour roundtrip ride with two 10-year olds this past August. Purchased after a considerable amount of research, our first portable DVD player did not disappoint. The headphone sound (with enhancement turned on) is very enjoyable, akin to the Hughes SRS system's ability to produce a wide spatial aural image. I know audio purists eschew such frivolities, and complain about such spaciness with headphones, but I simply like it. The speaker sound is as thin as one would expect, sounding comparable to any number of laptop PCs. Still enjoyable with the enhanced audio activated. Out of the box, the screen had 3 dead pixels. Toshiba explained this was within tolerance for the panel yields they were getting (at the time) from manufacturing, and would not consider replacing the unit. The picture is tremendous. What you would expect in terms of resolution, viewing angle, brightness, etc. Quite starting for DVDs. We also like the snapshot feature that saves an image, to appear whenever the disc door is opened. In our case, we enjoy seeing the Marx Brothers each time. My complaint is the price. I know the technology is new, but the panels have been around on laptops for 10+ years-and Toshiba's been there all along. These things are still too expensive.
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