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Summary: Don't make the same mistake!!!
Review: ... I made the mistake of buying this about 2 months ago. Being a novice to DVDs, I thought it was working OK until it would not correctly play almost every letterbox DVD I tried. ...
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Summary: a little buggy but
Review: all the features work to my satisfaction. It is flimsy and requires care, not for kids or dogs. The remote [stinks], way small and sometimes the buttons do not get any response the first time. a firm but gentle touch works best. I bought it for JPG slideshows and that works well although there seems to be a limit on how many images you can access at once. random play within a directory bypasses the limit. also selecting by number, say 201 for an image to start the limit at a later image works from that image up to the limit. It takes getting used to and some experimenting. For the price it is an amazing bargain. I read the negative reviews after I bought it. I probably would have spent 5 times as much to get what I wanted had I read all the bad reviews. I have only had it a few days but so far it works perfectly. The loud grinding noises i heard on the first dvd went away when i ejected it and reinserted. possibly it is overly sensitive to placement in the tray.
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Summary: A cheap price for cheap equipment!
Review: Although this is not the EXACT Apex model that I own, it is very similar, and after having problems with mine I decided to log on and see if anyone else had reported similar problems as mine. And, to little suprise, they had. From the moment I first played a DVD on the player, it made THE MOST annoying vibrqating sound that continued for the entire movie. At one point it became so loud, that I could no longer hear my movie over it! Eventually, however, that seemed to stop, although it would occassionally still make sound. Now, after only a few months, the player repeatedly displays: NO DISC each time a disc is placed inside. To make it worse, the APEX Help Hotline offered no help. After waiting on hold for over 30 minutes, I was instructed that it may be broken (Duh!) and that if I wanted to have it fixed I would be required to send it in for a labor charge of ... + shipping charges. That's more than ... of what I payed for the thing! My suggestion is that you skip APEX and spend that extra ... on a better brand.
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Summary: Basically, you get what you pay for.
Review: Apex DVD players are made for the most budget conscious of consumers, but my philosophy on buying electronics stands firm: If you're going to get one, spend a little extra and get a good one. The Apex AD-1200 is a tough recommendation even at the low price. The strength of this DVD player is simple: It plays DVDs. For people who will only watch a DVD occasionally, that is not a problem. It offers good picture quality and decent sound quality. Surprisingly, it plays VCDs and MP3s rather well, which means that those burned CDs that won't work on your stereo will most likely work here. Basically, you can expect a minimal level of performance from this particular DVD player. But the problems with this model are plentiful. The biggest flaw is the design. This DVD player is light, and feels cheap. Note the absence of a digital display on the player. Also, repeated pushing of the buttons can result in them falling out, so be careful of how hard you press the buttons. Worse yet, the player is loud and clunky. This clicks, hums, and rattles all through the movie. It is like a CD-ROM trying to read the disk. Having said that it is functional is not so true in the long term. As you would expect from a lower-end appliance, the Apex DVD player will stop working properly after a while. Often, the picture will freeze while the player tries to read the disk, and there are certain DVDs that it cannot read at all. This is a big annoyance, and a good reason to steer clear of this player. Buying a DVD player is never an easy decision, but choosing one strictly for the price is not a good idea. Most likely, you'll spend more having to buy a new one to replace the Apex brand when it breaks down. Spend a few extra bucks and get a good one instead, and avoid the headaches.
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Summary: Great Budget Entry Level Player
Review: Basically all I wanted was a DVD player that could play rental and library DVDs with no problems without having to spend a lot of money for features that I would never use. I feel the Apex 1200 is a good decent player that delivers on performance at a very reasonable price. There are only a couple of minor nits. Every once in a while the picture pauses for about a second and then continues. It seems to happen mostly near the end of a movie, but not on every movie, so it's possible it is a disk quality problem, rather than a player problem. But it's minor and barely noticeable, and I can live with it. My other minor complaint is that there is no front panel LED display to let me know where I'm at in the movie. However, there is an on screen display you can turn on to either give you just the time elapsed/time remaining or a more detailed display with chapters and titles and a bunch of other stuff, whenever you feel a need to know where you are at. If you are watching a movie in letterbox format you can leave the timer display permanently turned on without it encroaching on the movie area anyway. The manual is very well written, with clear helpful diagrams, making it a snap to hook up the player and look up any features you want to know about. Another nice feature is being able to hit the stop button and having the player remember where you are so when you hit play again it will start again from that point. To conclude, this review is based on about a month's use (a total of maybe 8-10 movies) so I can't say anything about durability yet.
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Summary: worst quality product that I have ever bought
Review: Bought this DVD player a litter over two months ago, and played less than 6 DVDs on the machine. Now it is totally broken. What ever disc (DVD, VCD or CD) I put in, it says "NO DISC". Still within the 90-day warranty, but need to pay shipping to send back for repair. My advise, don't buy this one. I will not buy anything from APEX.
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Summary: Worth every penny and more
Review: Circuit City has a no-hassle return policy, so I decided to buy this DVD player. When it got home, I discovered that this DVD does more than it should at such a low price. It can play DVD, CD, CD-RW (I used a closed-session disc), MP3 and Kodak photo discs. At the corner of the screen, I noticed that a little hand appears when I press the remote at the wrong time, so I don't get frustrated with lack of information. I love the screensaver that prevents light burns on the TV. It is S-video connectable, so I got surprisingly sharp image. The menus are intuitive and can be understood quickly. I don't use the remote as much, because I found the buttons on the unit to be sufficient (yes, there are buttons on the unit, too). The zoom feature is handy, as well as the progressive speed forward and backward scan. I am very happy this product is in the market.
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Summary: ....
Review: Dont buy this dvd player - I've had nothing but headaches. First of all, it doesn't recognize the dvd half the time. Then, half way thru the movie, it will freeze and not respond to anything but turning it off - all on perfect brand new discs. And every dvd with a somewhat complex menu - forget about it!! It will freeze when you hit enter on a menu with more than 2 or 3 things. Add to that stutter skips, ejecting a still turning disc(scratching the hell out of it) and sometimes choppy playback(again, all on perfectly new dvds) and this dvd player is NOT WORTH THE HEADACHES! Pay the extra 50 bucks for a name brand - its worth it in the end!
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Summary: DO NOT Buy this product!!
Review: First, it took me forever to get the stupid Player set up, but when I tried to play ANYTHING, I got a "No Disc" error. This is the first day that I have had it and it is fresh out of the box. This is TRASH and should be burned. Don't even waste your time driving to the store to look at it because it is AWFUL!
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Summary: Great product for the price
Review: Had no problems with DVD playback.. photo_jeff's review says he had problems with DVD Playback. the problem arises only when you connect the dvd player to the TV via a VCR. It is the copy protection on the DVD that causes the fluctuation and has nothing to do with the dvd player. try connecting your dvd player directly to the TV..
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