I decided to take a trip down to Long Beach Island, NJ for a long weekend and some much needed rest and relaxation, but also decided to take along and review the Mustek MP100 Portable DVD Player while I was there.
I made sure that before I left the DVD player was full charged and ready to go. While everyone hit the beach, I stayed back, sat on the deck and watched an old classic flick, Full Metal Jacket. The audio sounded loud and clear and the picture on the 10”, 180 degree swivel LCD made some of the “basic training” scenes look as if they were jumping right out at you. The swivel screen also allowed me to move the screen in several different ways in order to dodge the glare from the sun. However, if I tilted the screen a certain way, I wouldn’t get as a good a picture as if I left it flat and didn’t tilt it at all. The battery life lasted about a movie and a half long. I was a little disappointed at the fact that I had to stop and pause the movie to plug the AC adapter in to watch the rest of the movie. However, it was nice to see the DVD player also included audio output ports, a nice feature if you and a friend are on a long flight somewhere and both of you want to watch a nice long movie without disturbing the others sitting around you.
The MP100 also has several picture- and music-taking playback features that require special mention as well. These features include playback of MP3 music and JPEG images, as well as DivX, XviD, MPEG-4 and AVI files. There is also a slot for MMC/SD memory card and a USB host. Pictures from the beach that day that I had transferred from my SD card to the DVD player did not look as clear as some of the images that I had seen while watching Full Metal Jacket. However, the kids enjoyed looking at themselves acting silly.
Being the in-car electronics guru that I am, I was really happy with both the carrying case and in-car headrest protective case that allows you the ability to watch movies and view images while sitting in the backseat of your car. The kids really liked watching SpongeBob, and it kept them quiet for a little while at least.
I made sure that before I left the DVD player was full charged and ready to go. While everyone hit the beach, I stayed back, sat on the deck and watched an old classic flick, Full Metal Jacket. The audio sounded loud and clear and the picture on the 10”, 180 degree swivel LCD made some of the “basic training” scenes look as if they were jumping right out at you. The swivel screen also allowed me to move the screen in several different ways in order to dodge the glare from the sun. However, if I tilted the screen a certain way, I wouldn’t get as a good a picture as if I left it flat and didn’t tilt it at all. The battery life lasted about a movie and a half long. I was a little disappointed at the fact that I had to stop and pause the movie to plug the AC adapter in to watch the rest of the movie. However, it was nice to see the DVD player also included audio output ports, a nice feature if you and a friend are on a long flight somewhere and both of you want to watch a nice long movie without disturbing the others sitting around you.
The MP100 also has several picture- and music-taking playback features that require special mention as well. These features include playback of MP3 music and JPEG images, as well as DivX, XviD, MPEG-4 and AVI files. There is also a slot for MMC/SD memory card and a USB host. Pictures from the beach that day that I had transferred from my SD card to the DVD player did not look as clear as some of the images that I had seen while watching Full Metal Jacket. However, the kids enjoyed looking at themselves acting silly.
Being the in-car electronics guru that I am, I was really happy with both the carrying case and in-car headrest protective case that allows you the ability to watch movies and view images while sitting in the backseat of your car. The kids really liked watching SpongeBob, and it kept them quiet for a little while at least.
