Mustek PL510 portable DVD player

I'm rather partial to portable DVD players, even if they do seem a bit superfluous when there's plenty of lightweight laptops out there that will do the job just as well and provide you with a nice computer at the same time. Then again, if you don't want to fork out the many, many pounds necessary to get yourself a decent ultraportable notebook, something like this Mustek's PL510 (£279.99) will keep you occupied on long and arduous train journeys. This one's a biggie, with a 10-inch TFT screen, but still nice and skinny at just 3cm thick.

So when you find yourself sitting on your suitcase in the corridor on the 200-hour journey up to Scotland (for which you paid the best part of 9 million pounds) you'll be able to keep your teeth slightly less gritted by watching DVDs. Plus, with two headphone jacks, you'll be able to share this joy with your neighbour in the luggage rack. It's only got 2 and a half hours of battery life, mind, so you'd better hope your luggage rack is near a power supply.

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