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Summary: Piece of Crap
Review: Lasted for exactly under one year, of barely using it at all.
Now it's having disc and door problems, like everyone else.
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Summary: good for 1 - 200 hours
Review: My Apex AD-1600 worked great on DVD's, VCD's, MP3's, and WMA disks. After less than 200 hours use (but more than one year), it gives "no disc" error for any disk. For people with "no disc" error, try this fix (worked for me):
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Summary: Functional, but for how long?
Review: I received this DVD player as a gift for Christmas 2002, so I've had it for roughly 13 months. My parents had given my sister the same model, so we've actually had two of this item to look at comparatively. About 6 or 7 months after getting the players, the picture on hers began rolling and the color began fading in and out, from normal to very dark and back again. I haven't encountered any problems with mine up until now, and that is just recently noticing that every so often when playing a disc the 'motor sound' that so many of you mentioned will come up and last for 5 or 10 minutes. It's bearable for now, but after reading all of these bad reviews (and seeing that most of these same things happened with my sister's player), I feel safe in assuming this is only the beginning of my problems with this player. I'm not even going to wait to see what else goes wrong with it--I'm in the market for a new DVD player. My advice is, the so-called 'reputable' brands aren't always the greatest either, but when a product gets this many negative comments, you can bet it's not worth the money.
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Summary: Piece of crap
Review: Like most of the other people who bought this piece of junk it quit working after a few months. You put a disk in and there is a loud noise and a bunch of colors jumping across the screen and everything is frozen. I will be throwing it in the trash and buying a reputable brand.
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Summary: Fragile
Review: I bought the older version of this model and a month later I had to send it to the manufacture to have it repaired. I got it back and it no longer played VCD's because the new model didn't. I argued with APEX for two weeks. Finally they agreed to fix it like the original. I still had to pay for shipping again. They couldn't seem to comprehend why they should have to pay for shipping when I was having the same problem fixed. They have some real dopes in their service department. Anyway this thing is broke again. I give up, buying the new Samsung. Later APEX.
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Summary: Garbage, absolute crap.. PASS ON THIS PRODUCT!
Review: After a few months, not even 3, this machine has stopped reading DVD's, after reading these reviews, I was wondering if anyone has considered a class action law suit against this company.. I have gone on their website, and cannot find a phone number to contact them that is toll free.. GUESS IT WOULD COST THEM AN ARM AND A LEG SINCE EVERYONE WILL BE CALLING EVENTUALLY..
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Summary: Yeah...no good.
Review: When I came to college this room my room was lacking a DVD player. So I started looking around on Amazon and came across this model. The price was great. My parents have an Apex DVD player that works like a charm. So in early fall, I bought this one. Now, three months later, ironically just as the parts and labor warantee runs out, it has ceased all usable operation entirely. We've had to start using a friend's PS2 to watch movies. On top of that, I've tried various methods of getting ahold of Apex so they can maybe fix the problem but nothing has worked. The phone line is always busy. I emailed them almost three weeks ago and haven't heard from them. I submitted my problem through their website a week ago and haven't heard from them even though it's only supposed to take a few days. So now I'm out sixty dollars and have a DVD player that doesn't work at all.
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Summary: Irritating piece of crap.... PASS IT BY
Review: If I *COULD* give this player zero stars, I would, because this is by far the worst DVD player I have ever dealt with. By buying this player, you choose:
-poor quality
-lots of frustration
-cheap workmenship
-unreliable playtime
-an unreliable remote Not only does this DVD player not work 90% of the time, the 10% of the time it does, it fails to recognize options on menus or that the movie is actually playing. It slows down to a stop during dramatic sequences (funny how it can't be a transition when it choses to stop) and ruins an otherwise nice movie night. Make no mistake, it was not my doing to purchase this player, but rather, my ill-educated father. I had already heard the stories, I had hoped they were wrong, but they weren't, and we've all been more than frustrated with the situation. Please, save yourself $45 dollars and pass this by![] Thank you.
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Summary: Complete Junk
Review: My mother-in-law surprised me on our 5 year old's birthday with one of these gems. This is by far the worst DVD player on the market. We went through (returned) two of thee before I just gave up. Problems include not being able to load the disk, loading drawer falling off hinge, and loud motor noise when running disk. I would say 80% to 90% of the time the device wouldn't even recognize there was a disk in the device and if it did it would take 10 to 15 minutes to even start the disk. Don't bother. You're paying for what you get in this particular case.
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Summary: Disposable DVD
Review: Thought this seemed too cheap but thought I'd give it a shot as it works with so many formats. Unfortunately, the machine is a piece of junk. Takes a long time to read disc, door jams, and after just 2 weeks would just whirrr and vibrate. I used it only 6 times all told. I should have spent the money on a better machine in the first place. ...
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