The Philips corporations Pet 1020/37 is a nice little DVD portable with a bit more than a ten inch high res LCD display. Coming complete with a car mount kit, it also features a 180 degree swiveling screen for ease of use in any situation.

The memory card slot and USB connectors lets you share your favorite videos with your friends, as well as use your DivX encoded videos in either car or living room.

Enabling you to save larger files such as trailers, music videos and movies, Divx is not supported by many, if not most portable DVD players so this is an added bonus with the Philips portable here.

The Philips has truly excellent image quality and the design is very stylish, as well as being extraordinarily well built to withstand those things that it shouldn’t have to withstand.

It will accept playback of video and image files from portable hard drives which makes it aces in our book, however in comparison to other brands of portable DVD players its a bit on the high priced side, retailing at low end at about 249 USD.

The only real down side that we can find with the Philips is that the batter life is quite a bit less than is advertised. The advertised battery life is 5 hours, and what we’ve seen so far is just under four. In fairness you could try using power save and turning the bright down on the screen to see if that affects battery life. Playing movies from your portable hard drives via USB port means not carrying your DVD’s with you, which is a great feature.