Friendly and customizable, high standard image and easy to use - all these briefly describe the Sony portable DVD player. The remote control is handy and designed to complete the usual features found in a DVD player.

1. DVP FX-701 (380-600 $), the most popular, is very convenient. It is small enough to fit in a briefcase; it features 16:9 aspect ratio, 7" screen. It has virtual surround sound, easy to use on screen display, brightness and color controls, 3 hour battery life with supplied Lithium Ion battery, A/V Input, A/V Output Switch (on the side of the unit), resume play (automatically restarts playback from disk stopping point), built in screen saver, DC car charger
2. DVP FX-700 (380-620 $)
3. DVPPQ2 (40-180 $) is the small version of portable Sony. It is called Sony 'PICOT', very small in size. Its special features are: Dolby digital and DTS coaxial output; TV virtual surround (4 surround modes); Advanced SmoothScan and SmoothSlow modes; Instant replay; Headphone jack with volume control; S-video output; Composite video output; Analog audio output.

Advantages of Sony portable DVD players:

1. full support of DVD playback, MP3, CD and CD-R/RW playback for music
2. sharp images
3. Y headphone splitter
4. slim chassis and battery
5. more than 3 hours battery life

Nevertheless, Sony portable DVD players seem to have some drawbacks:

1. it doesn't play SVCD formats
2. noisy spinning sound from the drive
3. in case you want a Dolby Digital and DTS Decoder, you won't be able to use a standard optical cable. You should purchase a special mini-pin cable
4. some parts are not well-packed.