Toshiba SD-P1900 9-inch Portable DVD Player (Refurbished)

I am a bed-ridden invalid who spends a great deal of time reading or watching DVD's. As such, i have used many of these portable players. i have purchased several of them from Overstock.com. they are not intended to be left on twenty-four hours a day, but i confess that this is often what i must do. in addition, they sit too close to an ashtray and in a room with a down comfortoer that releases small bits of floating white goosedown. these small pieces of fluff land on everything. They get caught in fans, in my hair and also on the DVD players. Some of these players do not last long under this sort of duress. Phillps dies fairly quickly but two brands I keep coming back to are Polaroid and toshiba. The toshiba about which i write is wonderful because the picture is fantgaststic, you can run many of the options it has without the remote control and when i fall asleep and leave it on for twenty-four hours, it seems to take the beating. The only thing about this playe that I wish was that it's volume would go a litle higer. When the room is silent it';s not an issue at all, but I'm hedre with some necessary equipment and if i want to catch important nuance in the script or the score i must plug headphones in. Any headphones will do and the recepticl is on the right side, easy to find and use. It is for this reason that i give sound four stars instead of 5. Still, given the beating that I give these machines, this one is fantastic and you realy can't do any better.