Samsung DVD-L25 Portable DVD Player Plays Mini-DVDs, But Why?

When we spotted the Ben’s Bargains post that said that that the Samsung DVD-L25 Portable DVD Player was available at B & H photo for $24.99, we thought that wow that must be a steal. Then we took a look at its specs. Ok, so it has a 2.5 inch display, we’re used to an ipod with video and it can totally deal with that for $25 bucks, and its compatibility with MP3, WMA and JPEG files sounded good too. Or so we thought… it turns out that the DVD-L25 only plays Mini-DVD and Mini-CD discs. Which basically means that the only content you’ll be able to play on this thing is content you record on to mini-discs using your PC. Which begs the question, why did they even bother manufacturing this device? We suppose that this was Samsung’s way of making it as small as possible for a DVD player. But can you imagine the poor technologically ignorant fool who buys one of these and then comes home and realizes that he / she can’t play any of her standard DVDs on it? You just know it’s bound to happen.