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Summary: Great Value, if it Works
Review: I purchased the Apex AD703 in June 2001 and only used it sparingly until January 2002. Up to that time, I only watched Blockbuster DVD's and put the blame there for the problems I had. I then started to buy DVD's and the problems continued, After my retailer acknowledged the problems with this model, I was given the 5131 in exchange. It worked great for about a week and then died. After reading reviews of these products on other forums, I decided to buy the Daewoo 5700 and have had no problems.The Apex 5131 is a nice machine for a great price - if you can get one that works...
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Summary: Finally Quality at a price everyone can afford!
Review: I purchased this unit basically because it was in the price range that I could afford, Imagine my suprise when I got a DVD player with superior functionality to many other high end, and very expensive units! I say you get what you pay for, so why pay for someone's NAME, i'd rather spend the money on quality!
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Summary: Price/Performance - more features and functionality
Review: I was stunned on how well this DVD Changer works. I bought mine at Circuit City and was prepared to return it if anything went wrong. The reason I purchased this APEX product to begin with was because of some research I did on-line about the best DVD changers. I own a Sony DVD player which has all kinds of problems playing CD-Rs and just forget about DVD-Rs. This APEX AD5131 supports every type of CD-R I've tried: SVCD, VCD, MP3, DVD+R, Kodak Photo CD, etc. The Karaoke feature is kinda cool too. My only complaint is that you have to point the remote control on the exact same level as the front of the DVD player. Besides that I'm very pleased. The price is awesome - almost $100 cheaper than a Sony 3-disc changer that has less features and less Media type support. Overall, I'm very happy about this purchase.
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Summary: Great Player, Great Price
Review: I've had two...first one was a dud. Gobbled up the first DVD I was watching about 15 minutes into the movie. Wouldn't rotate to let it go (I believe it may have been fried by a power fluctuation in my house, though). Second one, (on a new ISOBar surge protector), flawless. The presentation for MP3 CDs is great - presents in folder/file fashion like Windows Explorer. Can change two while third is playing, remote needs a little work, but other than that, you can't beat it for the price!
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Summary: Best Bang for the Buck!!!
Review: In my opinion, I think this APEX player is the best bang for the buck. It does everything.. DVD, CD, VCD, CD-R, MP3, JPGS, and surprisingly MPGs... thats right just burn a CD full of your favorite MPG clips you've collected online and watch them on your TV set. A pleasant surprise I must say!
APEX is hardly top-line though. Their products are made cheaply sometimes. Upon removing from the box, the front panel of my DVD tray fell off. Apparently not fastened onto the tray, but just "clipped" onto it. Easily fixed though. And the instructions should have more information in it. But aside from these little problems, I must say its hard to beat a player that has all the features crammed into this unit at this price. It also has: ZOOM, SLOW FWD/RV, FAST FWD/RV, SHUFFLE Play, and pretty much all other features always offered with most DVD players these days. But like I said you gotta love being able to view MPGs/JPGs, and listen to MP3s (you can even listen-in as you FFWD your favorite songs to a certain part of the song. something I have never heard on any MP3 player before this one, and believe me I tried a few).
This is the Best bang for your Buck, if you don't care about BIG-NAME products.
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Summary: Coolest stuff inside!
Review: That's a cheapest and feature-load DVD changer I could ever Imagine.
It plays virtually anything - any media CD/CDR/CDRW/DVD/DVDR any file mp2/mp3/wav/jpeg/mpg, you don't even need to bother putting your mpg video into VCD/SVCD format! It'll play it! Actually you can put everything on one CDR (mpg video, jpg pictures, mp3 music) and play it! You can create directory structure and it will act as a computer to dig up your files from existing CDs. Plus it has microphone input and Caraoke capabilities!
It comes with everything for basic connection, including audio&video cables, even batteries for remote.
Jpeg rendering is really fast even for big files, plus you can make slideshow and it has zoom capabilities too!
Just to say, this is not an ideal DVD player, but for this money it just amazing!
Remote is kinda mess, small buttons and digits is hard to read and sometimes features are not intuitive, but after a wile you can feel comfortable enough.
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Summary: What do you expect for [this price]?? Better than you think!
Review: The Apex 5131 is GREAT for value and function! What I did not find in a lot of advertisements is what it can actually do... probably because it has too much too offer. Find me another box that can do everything thing this can, including being able to read: MP3, CDR/CDRW, DVD/DVDR, MPG (automatically read w/o changing to VCD format, VCD/SVCD, JPG (auto scrolling), Kodak image format, in addition to 3 disc carousel, AND mic inputs for KARAOKE for [this price]or less!! It's not perfect, like the dinky remote but what do you expect for $100. To its credit, this [price]box works better than ANY or higher that I've been reseaching so far! Here's another point, MP3's are FREE on the internet and if this box can read DVDR's, imagine having over 700 MP3 songs on ONE DVDR disk! That's where your savings really begins!... and that's just a start...
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Summary: Multimedia
Review: This baby plays it all, from JPEG's to home made DVD's. It's loaded with features most popular players dont even consider.I did have a problem with the 1st one I got as in being dead right out of the box, but then 2nd one works fine. Amazon makes it real easy for you to return if needed.
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Summary: A great product
Review: This is a great product with a great price. The only thing I don't like is the remote control design. Some buttons are functioning
properly. In general, I'm quite happy with it.
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Summary: Works GREAT
Review: This is my 3rd DVD player, i bough this DVD player because i want a player that plays SVCD. i bough this for 100 at SAM's club and i love it. it play everything i throw in, include my SVCD disc. wow! hope they make avi or divx player soon....
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