<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by kokonutz:
WEll, my recently lost panasonic has put me back in the market.
As to the laptop vs. DVD player, dedicated DVD is better because:
-No starting up a laptop to view, just turn on and go.
-Dont need to pull down tray table to view, and the player does not get hot in your lap the way a laptop does.
-Up to 6.5 hour battery (with a dimmed screen) means two full length feature movies on a transcon even with no empower.
-As mentioned, ease of control for scene selection, ff, rwind and pausing.
-Can have open and view on the side of a FC meal tray...no need to interrupt the movie to eat.
I could go on and on.
I was very happy with the panasonic, so WOULD probably go with the Panasonic DVD-LA95 Portable DVD Player but am tempted by the higher-rated Toshiba SD-P2000.
However, I am intrigued by the sub-compact notebooks, which have similar to above except on the quick startup and about half the battery life. But with a high capacity spare battery, I'm going to follow the meatman and order a Fujitsu P2120...this will also put me finally into the WiFi world, which I've been putting off.
$1856 with the high capacity installed and the extra high capacity battery...
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