Toshiba SD-P2900 Portable DVD Player with Screen

I purchased the SD-2900NS (no clue as to what "NS" stands for..."no satisfaction", maybe...)at Best Buy for 279.00 (they were willing to match Circuit City's price...). The high resolution was appealing, higher than of any portable DVD player I had heard of. However...
1) Shadow and darkened areas in any frame way too dark. No amount of adjustments remedy this. In scenes shot in darkness, forget getting a clear perception of the action.
2) The unit is very dependent on the remote. Lose or damage the remote, and live with greatly diminished functionality of the unit. The directional wheel on the unit does not fast forward or rewind. It only makes selections in on-screen menus.
3) Weird location of pause button, both on unit and remote.
4) In brightness adjustment, not near enough points of adjustment between dark and light. Darks are either too dark, or light areas are too bright.
5) The four corners of the unit are just that, corners. They are not rounded off. If dropped on any one of these corners, damage could be extensive, or catastrophic. Also more difficult to store and retrieve from a book bag due to these corners. Given the weight of this unit, in the hands of a child who likes to throw both tantrums and things, this unit could be a deadly shuriken. The sizeable hole made in the sheetrock in your home could be widened just a bit. That would give you the extra room into the den you've always wanted.
6) Difficult to open. A fashionable female user might lose a nail trying to open the unit.
7) Weird design of selector buttons and FF/RW/skip buttons. Those buttons you might use more (FF, RW, skip....) are labeled very small. You really have to search for them. Those you will use far less are prominently labeled.
8) In some scenes where there are solid blocks of color, the pixels seem to swarm like angry bees. Fortunately, owing to the claimed 800 x 480 resolution, the angry bees are very tiny.
9) Sure, one might hesitate to compare the picture of a portable DVD with, say, a television. However, this is a 279.99 portable DVD player. I feel justified in expecting much, much more.
10) When the camera pans in any direction, the picture blurs, and I find myself getting dizzy and nauseated. This could be the fault of whoever shot the movie. The scene in Jurassic Park I comes to mind, where the Gallimimus ("Gallimimi?") are running from the ominous presence of a stalking T-Rex. However, this movie was watched on a television, and I still became nauseated. Imagine the stomach upset derived from a much smaller screen.
Sony offers the new 8.5" DVP-FX850, with 600 x 480 resolution, and you can have one......if you happen to live in Japan. This model was rumored to have been scheduled for US availability in Christmas '07. I have yet to find one state-side. I get the distinct impression that Toshiba, in an effort to be among the first high-res portable offerings in the US, simply threw together this model, with only a passing regard for design.
A battery for the remote was listed as included in the box; it wasn't.
Considering the 279.99 price tag, I'm struggling to find something good to say about this unit. It reads memory cards; I love that.
In sum, save your 300.00 for an inexpensive laptop with DVD playback. For the average user, getting the most of picture quality will prove quite a challenge. You'll find yourself constantly adjusting for DVD scenes shot at both night and day. I am seriously considering returning this unit. Okay, okay! It simply s*x.