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Summary: 3 stars for quality, 7 stars for value = 5 stars
Review: The Apex GT1417DV is a terrific bargain. It meets all the criteria for a genuinely great deal (lots of features, good overall design, plenty of functionality), but it's got a few nits that keeps it from leading the class. First, the DVD player is only so-so. Loading time is noticably slower than a stand-alone unit, and reminds me of the DVD player in my PC in terms of startup time and performance. The TV set itself has a slightly soft picture, and the colors on my set lean a lot toward the reds--no matter how much I try to dial back the color shift using the built-in controls. The picture is bright, but the brightness actually causes an overall washed out effect. Reducing the brightness just a little from the factory preset level causes an immediate loss of detail and unacceptable flatness. On the plus side, the convenience of the TV/DVD combo form factor is exceptional. There are no cables to run (which can save you $20-$40 right there), no manuals to read, and no painful setup for the DVD player side of things.Other than a couple of fairly small concerns, the overall performance of this combo set is good, especially when you factor in the price. [On side note, I wish Apex would have spent a little more on the remote control; it feels decidedly cheap, the buttons are VERY small, and not all functions are well designed--the DVD controls in particular.]
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This TV/DVD combo is perfect for any samll space. I put it in my boy's room and he just loves it. Remote and DVD are very simple to use. In fact my 4 year old can operate the set. Great looking picture to boot. If you decide to purchase, I am sure you will be very pleased.
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Summary: THIS IS A GREAT LITTLE UNIT
Review: This unit is great. The picture tube is basically flat and the dvd player in the unit does a great job. For the $$$, this little unit rocks.
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Summary: Pretty cheap product
Review: This is a really low-budget product.
In addition to the product being dented and partially non-functional on arrival, the manufacture quality appeared just plain cheap. Built-in speakers are smaller than they appear, and have a 60-cycle hum. Disc tray rattles and feels fragile. Remote control not ergonomic in design and not intuitive to use. On the other hand... it is the cheapest TV-DVD I've seen. It has the typical array of DVD outputs on the back so you can connect to your 5.1 audio system. By the way, this would be a good match with the $55 Durabrand 7-Piece Home Theater Audio System, HT-395 (...)
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Summary: great
Review: why anyone would not give this a 5 star is beyond me flat screen dvd manual and remote great full in and out jacks sterio awesum deal have other apex products they work great
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Summary: APEX: actually not the epitome of great electronics
Review: I bought this TV a month ago and when it arrived the screen was tinted blue. You could hardly watch the TV because the blue tint was so heavy. Every time I called Apex customer service I was told I was number 15 or 16 in queue to talk to the next available representative. A 2 minute question left me on the phone for 45 minutes waiting for someone to talk to me. When I finally got a hold of someone, she seemed clueless. She told me, "Um I guess you can send it back and we'll see what we can do". So I carry my 33 pound TV down to the UPS store, and pay 35 dollars to ship it back. I am actually writing this while Apex has me on hold...still.
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Summary: APEX - Poor Customer Support
Review: I purchased this TV for a very good price as a floor model, my complaints are not so much against the product quality - but the companies Customer Support. Since I purchased the floor model I was not given the Instruction Manual or remote control. I have tried every avenue possible to obtain at least the Manual - faxing, calling, emailing from their web page. I have been told twice that these items have been sent out, I don't think that should take 2 weeks. Now when I call Customer Service the phone is either busy, your on hold for 45 mins. when your #1 in que or the office is closed. I found their web page http://www.apexdigitalinc.com/account.asp and am still waiting for them to respond. Because of the companies failure to support their customers, I'm very hesitant to purchase any more of their products.
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Summary: Apex has the worst products and services I have ever had
Review: I purchesed a Apex 65HDTV a year ago. It never had a day working as Apex promised. The very first day, the remote control had some problem. I called the company so many times, every time I got to spend with somebody in India to go through my info. After doing this for 3 months, they just ask me to ship to remote control to them on my cost, it is not worth the remote control for the shipping cost, what a joke!
Then the whole screen turned to red. I spent almost 3 Months to get a Apex certified contractor in my house (after so many of them I called told me they wouldn't want to work with Apex. Then,
the contractor told me that one part needs to be ordered from Apex to replace the broked one. I have been waiting for the Apex part for more than 4 Months now, and still waiting. I called the contractor so many times, they told me that they called Apex each week to check the part, and it never get shipped.
I am going to trash the TV next week and just let everyone know that Apex has the worst products and services I have ever had.
Don't buy Apex, it is a bad bad company!
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Summary: DON'T LOSE YOUR MANUAL!!!
Review: Would have been more stars but...
I called up Apex's customer service line to see why they did not have a PDF of the manual for this unit available for download on their site. I got the obligatory Indian lady who told me she did not know why there wasn't one, but that I could buy one from them for $10! PLUS $5 for "shipping and handling"! That's $15. I only paid $99 for the whole unit with free shipping! I laughed and told them what they could do with their replacement manual.
Get your act together, APEX. Other than that...
What a cool little piece of gear. Does everything it promises. Have had mostly very good experiences with Apex and this is no exception. There is, however, one tiny thing about the DVD player part that kept me from giving it 4 or 5 stars. It seems to be pretty slow and sluggish - like it's trying really hard to figure out what I want sometimes - but most of the time it reads like a charm and for $99, what can you expect? (I got mine for $99 bucks brand new off amazon with free shipping, wonder why price has gone up).
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Summary: APEX......... Junk from the GetGo
Review: Bought 3 of these TV's because of the low price.... I thought Oh what the heck... Gotta try them as they may work-out... I was wrong... YOu get what you pay for... Of the 3 TV's in about 4 months time.... 2 of them died... Customer support?! forget it... Wouldn't let me take it to a local Authorized dealer!!! Told me I would have to send them back to the Company at about 35.00 a crack!! Then wait and get it repaired or they would be replaced with REFURBISHED units!!! Not worth the shipping cost and time.... and if I wanted a refurbished TV I would have bought one in the first place.. Customer service reps are robots who don't care about after the sale service. Got to say, when they worked the picture and sound was OK for a cheap TV.... Has been about 10 months now so I opened one TV up to see inside.... "Almost nothing!" Just one 8X10 card..everything is soldered Poor quality inside and out... not built to last in my opnion.... Avoid this junk from APEX... They are running along with the others in producing Junk TV's
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