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Summary: Great DVD for your money
Review: (...)! Ohh and its quite normal that a DVD gets hot even VERY hot AHH burns ur cheeks kinda hot! ohh, it plays mp3's OK but not great, MP3's can sound a little distorted if not encoded in joint sterio, but i found if i put it on just left, or just right,(depending on the song,) it sonds fine, *DVD playback, would get a 3.8 out of 5, i have not used the S-Video cable but this systmem dose not not Multi scan the disc, thats why if ur DVD's are all scrached up, it looks fuzzy, or skippy/distroted, i take GREAT care of my DVD's, but have rented some, and have seen it skip. Dont give a DVD player to a bunch of little ones, WOOPS! there gose the DVD tray! ect., Over all rateing, 4.7 / 5.0 GREAT BUY, I am VERY happy with my DVD player by APEX. The Knowledgeble One
15 (years old)
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Summary: Not a good buy
Review: All of the reviews that you had published when I bought my dvd player last November were really good, so I decided to get one since it appeared to be a good product for an affordable price. I didn't get it hooked up right away, but when I finally did every dvd (all brand new, by the way) that I have tried to watch has completely frozen the machine up. Haven't tried anything else on the machine - think I'm afraid too! Hope I can trade it in on something else because it's certainly not worth the money, even at this price.
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Summary: Plays almost anything ending in a D!!!!!!!!
Review: Apex has done it again, came out with a product thats affordable and still allows you to " keep up with the Jones' " This is an excellent player for the price and I would recommend it to anyone. The AD-3201 has lots of versatilities ranging from the sound outputs, the ntsc & pal and not to mention it being firmwire upgradable. I also think the remote is easy to learn and use. All around good purchase!!!
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Summary: APEX DVD-Player
Review: First of all I wanted to say that I am researching also on DVD-players with PAL function. And I am also not sure if this one would play on my NTSC TV, since I read that most of the time one needs to have a PAL compatible TV in order to view PAL DVD's. I am from Europe but have been living in the US for a while and would like to enjoy DVD's from home too. That's the main reason why I would like to buy this DVD Player. If anyone has experience as to how the playback for Region 2 works, I would appreciate a comment.
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Summary: Fix for the SVCD problem
Review: For those of you having problems when you switch out SVCD's try hitting the EQUALIZER button after it starts that should fix the problem, atleast it does for me. everybody try this, open empty tray, and type in 8421, and close to save. ;)
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Summary: BIG problems with this machine
Review: I am surprised how high a rating most people are giving this machine! I tried this machine for a few weeks and found that with most DVDs the movie would pause for several seconds about half way through. "The Great Escape" froze altogether and all I could do was hit eject, as almost every other button on the machine was no longer functioning once this happened. This movie did not act up at all on a friend's player, which was NOT an Apex, so it was obviously the machine that was faulty. I tried an exchange but the second machine made a horrible grinding sound when I put any disc in and every disc I tried skipped every few seconds or didn't play at all! I also did not find the mp3 support on the ad-3201 very good. I was able to use data cdrs (another reviewer said it only was compatible with music cdrs), but they had to be 650mb (74 min) ones, and the songs seemed to often end up in a different order than the way I had burned them. With all discs the names were illegible - only eight characters would show...it would show a few letters of the first word, insert some underscore and a few letters of another word! There is no random play for mp3s either and if they are in a folder the song names and numbers won't show at all. This machine handled music cds very well...some of my HDCDs sounded amazing. The machine only allows for 12 songs (or dvd positions) to be pre-programmed however, which is far too few for most uses. I found the sound quality in general to be one of the best things about this machine...it even has a built in equalizer (for music cds only) which is handy at times. Perhaps if all you wanted was to play audio cds this machine would be an okay investment. If you plan to purchase dvds, however, stay away. The zoom feature was good, the remote so-so (the arrangement of the numbers is not the standard 123, 456, 789 so I was constantly hitting the wrong numbers if I didn't look closely) and the picture was quite good, but perhaps a bit dark. I'm afraid that the freezing of dvds is just too big a problem to make up for all the good things about this unit. Other people on the company's web site say this is a problem with this model. Considering all the features and low price of this machine I would have given it at least four stars had it not been for this major flaw. Don't get stuck with this lemon unless Apex somehow fixes this problem in a future firmware upgrade.
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Summary: AD-3201 bug:
Review: I bought the Apex 3201 and I found this bug: I turned on the player and inserted a VCD. It played fine. I stopped and ejected the DVD tray without remove the CD or turned the power off; I loaded the DVD tray again and it would not play correctly. There was no sound and the picture skipped. I tried other VCDs and the same thing happened. I don't think it is the disc, because it played fine if I turn off the player and turn it back on again. This bug can be repeated everytime.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I bought the Apex 3201 last week. It delivers clear, defined movies for me any family to enjoy. It has special features such as zoom capability, screen playback and skipping features. It is inexpensive and made with quality. It rates up there with Panasonic to me--but it costs much less!
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Summary: You win some, you lose some.
Review: I bought this DVD player and the audio skipped. I got another one and it is fine. I think you just take a chance at getting a bad one more so than with other brands. I had a Zenith that did the same thing. I have a Toshiba DVD player I use to love, until I got this Apex. As long as you don't get a bad one, this DVD player is awesome. Good points about this DVD player:
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*It has (2) analog audio outputs
*it plays CDR's,
*remote control has volume for analog audio, and mute for analog and digital. Built in EQ for analog audio Bad points:
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*The power button stays pushed in once you press it. Meaning if you turn the unit of on the remote, you cannot turn it back on at the unit itself. You have to push the button of, and then back on.
* The fastest forward setting is 20x (this is still fast)
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Summary: out of stock
Review: I bought this for one reason only - my friend told me it could be made 'region free' without even having to mess with changing the firmware. This is true - there is a 'trick' you use on the remote control that turns off region locking. Very cool. I bought it and was immediately playing my DVDs from the UK (PAL/Region 2) on my standard US TV (NTSC). But - this player locks up when playing Apollo 13 (at 44:02, precisely!). Search on the web for this player, and you'll see forums that list lots of movies that all fail. I downloaded patches and applied them but the problem remained. Other than the lockup, it has great image quality! The lockup is severe - must power down the unit! This unit has very nice features for the price - dedicated r,g,b outputs, optical audio, coax audio, etc - but, the lockups on mainstream movies tell me it's just not worth it. I was able to watch my UK DVDs but the quality was not good - I noticed poor display quality when there was movement in the image. Searching around, I discovered this is due to the PAL->NTSC conversion that the unit is doing. Not too bad, but noticeable. I also bought the APEX 1500, and it does a better job of this for some reason, although the overall image quality of that unit is not as good.
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