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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Oct 31, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Deborah Ellington wrote:

> I want to purchase a portable DVD player for car use only and don't
> really know where to begin, so I'm turning to the expert minds here.

What we did for years is I take my laptop on trips, and then sit next  
to our daughter and watch the show with her, making sure the laptop  
doesn't get damaged.  Of course, the prerequisite is actually liking  
to watch Toy Story 2 for the 15th time!

Just this weekend, though, the laptop was replaced with the video  
iPod.  After wanting an iPod for years, I finally caved in and got a  
60GB unit.  They all are video capable now, and I hadn't expected the  
video on the small screen to be very good, but the picture quality is  
amazing, which overcomes the screen size.  I transferred my  
daughter's favorite DVDs to the thing, and she now prefers watching  
on the small screen.  You can compress a two hour movie down to  
around 250MB, so there's plenty of room on the drive for movies and  
my entire music collection.

I had read several commentaries making fun of the video capability, but:

1. you get it for free.
2. the picture quality is really great.

Along with the iPod I bought an Alpine iPod-ready car stereo where  
you can lock the iPod in the glove compartment and control it from  
the stereo controls.  My previous cars didn't even have so much as a  
cassette deck so this is a big change.

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        -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC