Portable Theater

While many of today’s laptops sport DVD players, we still like the standalone portable DVD format because you can take it to the beach house, the kids room or the bathroom for that matter. Panasonic created the first portable DVD player and now its new generation Palm Theater DVD –LX 9 features a high resolution widescreen for movies playback of almost any audio format you throw at it (MP3, DVD audio, WAV) but its secret weapon is a pair of external tubular speakers and a docking station that allows you to take your home theater anywhere or nowhere. ($995; www.panasonic.com)