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Summary: Simply defective
Review: Obviously you take your chances with a $50 dvd player. We lost on this round - the dvd tray, free of any incumbrences, clicked and whirred and refused to open. Now we have to pay for the return shipping.
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Summary: Plays almost every format! Good value for your money!!!
Review: . As it says, it almost plays all the major formats
. Decent picture and audio
. The actual colour of the player seems little different from the picture listed here. It looks more like silver. Nevertheless, it looks great!
. With mail-in rebate & free shipping, the price comes to < 40$ and you're getting a progressive-Scan DVD player, which is absolutely a steal!
. Excellent choice if this is your first DVD player and also, if you want to add this to the TV in the other room.
. Has an average remote. Becomes handy after frequent usage.Highly recommended!
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Summary: Great Player, Great Deal!
Review: I ordered this Apex 2600 DVD player late in the day on Sunday, it was shipped out on Monday and I have just received it today, Wednesday. You have to love Amazon for overestimating the amount of time it will take to get their merchandise delivered. It's always a pleasure to get something early! The Apex is exactly what I wanted. Low and sleek, much more refined than my older Apex 1100 and 1500. It also plays my newly burned DVD+R and DVD+RW disks which is the reason I purchased this for usage. I can now get rid of my Apex 1110 which did not play either of these formats. Otherwise, the machine is well made, solid and the remote is much better than previous models and easier to understand. The new AFF (Active Fullscreen Function) is a bit of a gimmick in that it just stretches the picture to try to fill the screen when you play a widescreen version of a movie. Other than that, with the $10 rebate (which some reviewers say you'll not get), the player will only cost $40. Even without the $10 rebate, it's a great progressive scan DVD player that fits my needs. Thanks Amazon and Apex!
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Summary: Slick amazing DVD player
Review: cheap, but played everything I threw at it, PAL DVDRs, raw mpg burned onto a DVDR, VCD... I have yet to test it with other stuff, but I'm confident it'll play everything. The look is slick and compared to other <$50 DVD players, this one has an LCD screen, big +. Recommened, 5 stars for APEX.
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Summary: Great value, but beware of the color
Review: Excellent DVD player for the money. Quality picture, and you're not paying for features you'll never use. One word of caution just in case your picky about color. The picture on Amazon made the device look like it was charcoal/black in color. It's not. It's silver. No big deal unless you're trying to match it with your other devices.
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Summary: Have had it for 30 minutes and I LOVE it!
Review: After reading the positive comments here and elsewhere, I ordered the Apex 2600 around noon on Nov 24th. I chose the Free Shipping option and was given an estimated delivery date of Dec 3-4. Well, here it is Nov 26th and the player has already arrived. 5 *'s to Amazon and UPS for that! Had the player hooked up and working fine in a couple minutes. Instructions? We don't need no stinking instructions to figure out how to use all the features of this bad boy. Remote and menus are clear enough to find anything. Definitely does everything mentioned in previous reviews. Reads CD and DVD data disks. Shows JPG photos and MPEG movies. Full screen images and MPEG movies are sharp and not distorted (that I've noticed so far). Can't comment on progressive scan as I do not have a HDTV. Can't help but feel that for $39 after rebate, this is the best value I've gotten for an electronics item in a long time, if not ever.
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Summary: Touchy player
Review: I ended up returning this unit since it would not play certain DVD's (all of which were store-bought, Region 1, non-restricted titles). It seemed to work fine for most of my DVDs but for some reason would not read a couple of titles. I decided to return the player and purchased another one (at the same price level) and have had no problems viewing the same discs.
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Summary: Reads miniDVD too!
Review: I bought this one just to test if it can also play miniDVD in addition to other video formats mentioned in other reviews. And I am very delighted to know that it plays very well my DVD videos made into CD-Rs. MiniDVD is the same as regular DVD but is burned to a CD-R instead of DVD-R. It's cheap to make compared to DVD-R disks, but can only store about 15 min of high DVD quality video. Most DVD players will not play miniDVD videos. Now only costing $39 with rebates, it definitely is a great buy!
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Summary: Wouldn't totally recommend this...
Review: I got the ad2600 when it was $59 in July, and it worked great for a few months. Played VCDs, SVCDs, mp3 discs, etc...But then about a month ago it started making a loud humming noise sometimes while playing DVDs. It's mainly at the root menu that it happens,strangely enough. My girlfriend has had the same player for 2.5 months and it has never done this, so maybe mine is just a bad unit. Sometimes I can fix the problem by just turning it off and back on, sometimes not. I wouldn't say this is a bad DVD player, but be careful...maybe a $50 progressive scan DVD player that handles all the formats this one does is just a little too good to be true...Or maybe there's just some bad apples in every batch by any company.
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Summary: Worth it
Review: I'd purchased a total of 3 Apex DVD players prior to getting this model, and all three have been working loyally, with the oldest one still doing well after two years, so I figured for this price, if I could get 2-3 years of service out of it until the next technological advance comes along, it would be worth it. The AD-2600 is not Apex's first progressive-scan model, but it has a more solid feel than Apex's prior offerings. Like with all Apex players, the 2600 plays lots and lots of formats, from DVD to VCD to Kodak to CD to recordable and rewritable discs. This is not a fancy player, and some of the functions are not well documented and feel kinda crude to operate, but hey, it works well and you just can't beat the price! Progress scan is only evident if you have a digital TV (DTV). If you do have one, you'll notice the difference, big-time. Images become so much sharper and clearer, and you'd never want to go back to interlaced pictures again. Notice that progressive scan only improves video, not audio. For best video results, get the component (not composite) cables. All DTVs have component video inputs, and you *must* take advantage of those. Recommended if you watch a lot of DVDs.
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