My MediaGate MG-25

Bought the MediaGate MG-25 media player for the minivan... The van only had VHS, but it also had an aux-in. The MG-25 was only about $70 shipped and I dropped in a 20 gig 2.5 inch hard drive I had laying around (that smells vaguely of coffee for some reason).

Kids love it so far, they have their own remote so they can choose what to watch.

One of the reasons I got this was that it can play DVD backups (VOBs or ISOs), but the resume feature doesn't yet work correctly for these. Each time you shut down the car, when you power it back on the DVD resumes at the beginning. The kids were good sports about this, but I found it unacceptable. So now I'm reconverting the kids movies for this to Xvid AVIs. Those resume correctly, but obviously you lose menus and special features. But the kids don't care.

Also, you must explicitly hit 'stop' or 'power' in order for the MG-25 to save its resume point. It does not periodically write its spot, so if you forget and simply disconnect power, you'll resume from the last point you resumed from... ie, you watch 30 minutes, hit 'stop', watch another 30 minutes and power off, when you resume you'll be 30 minutes into the film, not 60.

I'm going to write to the company, but I don't think English is their comfort language. Still a great little player, and hopefully it will withstand its travels!