Liked it, until it stopped working
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03 Jan, 00:00
I purchased this product from my local Best Buy store before the holidays, to use on our 800-mile trip over the river and through the woods to Grandma's house. Setup was fairly easy, except that I couldn't find the switch to turn on the wireless headphones (oh yeah, I got those too) output without reading the manual. (It's on the edge of the flip-up screen, BTW.) Picture quality and operation were fine. More importantly, it kept our munchkin mollified for hours and hours.
But it did not work by the time we reached our destination. The initial "Audiovox" splash screen came up, but the disc did not even spin. The display would then show a bunch of random colored blocks after a while. I followed the tip in the manual to let the unit warm up for several hours with no disk loaded after being brought in from the cold. (We left it in our van overnight during a 10 degree night.) Still no improvement. Fortunately, this happened less than a week after we bought it, so I took it back to Best Buy when we got home and got a full refund credited to my credit card. Still, it would have been nice to have it functioning for the 800-mile trip home.
I don't know if my experience is typical. I would expect to be able to leave a portable unit overnight in a cold, closed car overnight. There was no warning against this in the manual. I originally felt comfortable buying this brand based on my experience with my Audiovox cell phone. I came here to Amazon to look for consumer recommendation on a replacement unit.
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