by WarPony » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:42 pm
My GF bought me a Polaroid PDM-0817 portable DVD player w/TV docking station. It has a rechargable battery that is supposed to last 3 hours under normal operating conditions. The neat thing about the docking station is that when you snap the DVD player onto the top you can watch TV or a DVD. The docking station has a 75 ohm cable connection on the back, RCA jacks for optional speakers and/or a bigger monitor, 181-channel cable-ready TV tuner and an alarm clock. Both have remote controls and both are AC/DC. The screen is 8", which is plenty good for us but the two speakers are the size of quarters and are kind of "tinny" sounding for my liking. I'll probably get some different ones. Power consumption for the DVD player is less than 25W, the docking station less than 35W. Pretty good, I think. I also purchased a Winegard HA-0130 Hideaway antenna for getting TV reception but haven't installed it yet so I can't speak for it but I do like the Polaroid.
JetBldr has the Orion TV/DVD combo and it has a really good picture and reception. I was going to buy that but the case dimensions were too big for the space I have in my TTT. It looks like a good setup other than that and is also AC/DC, although I don't know the power consumpton it takes.
Still a million dollars away from being a millionaire!!