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Summary: What can you expect for 60 bucks?
Review: This is a pretty good DVD player. The Picture is Awesome when its working and the sound is outstanding. Perfect for surround sound (5.1). Everything worked good with a few exceptions. After about 60 minutes of watching a DVD the sound gave out through the optical. Now that doesnt work at all anymore but the analog is still ok. Movie often freeze and frames get skipped, as if too much information was being read by the laser. Mp3 sounds great but some songs would skip on a perfectly clean CD. VCD's don't play too well on this player. Overall this is an "ok" product for 60 dollars. Everything else works fine so far. But I'd go with a major name brand next time. I will probably return this item soon.
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Summary: Impressive,especially for the price!
Review: If I had seen Apex sooner, I could have saved hundreds of dollars when I purchased my RCA and Samsung models.
I am really happy with this model and I was extremely surprised that it had a karaoke system. It's not as good as my Pioneer, because the echo quality isn't there, however, I can't complain for the price. It's a great back up!
I like being able to play vcd's,mp3's,view photo album's etc.
I was so pleased, that I had to order one for my father.
I plan on purchasing another one to replace my broken model in the bedroom.
What good is paying a lot of money for some of the big name brands when they don't perform as well? Are extremely sensitive to slightly scratched rented dvd's by freezing up.
This model has not done that!
For my experience, I'd recommend it and use your savings for something exciting.
Rating: 
Summary: Good DVD player but vibrates on some dvd's
Review: I've had this DVD player for about 2 months, and it's worked great so far with one exception. On some dvd movies the motor in the dvd player starts to vibrate. The sound can be annoying unless you turn the volume up. After a few minutes, the noise goes away. The dvd player has paused for a few seconds on a couple of movies. This is acceptable. I've watched an est. of 20 dvd movies with this player so far. Also, I've owned the dvd player for about 3 months. The video quality is excellent. Home dvd's played fine on the player. I don't use the dvd to play mp3's, vcd, or other formats. I wouldn't buy it as the main dvd player for a home theater setup due to the vibration on some dvds (unless it's just my dvd player.) It's kind of embarrassing(the vibration) if you have visitors over, but it's a good second dvd player for the price. Btw. Netflix rocks. If you rent a lot of dvd movies at blockbuster, you may want to look into Netflix. Extremely easy to use and you can go rental crazy. Don't want to pay 4 dollars to see a movie you know you probably won't like, but you have a curiosity to see it ...Netflix may be for you.
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Summary: Quality Control
Review: The price was right and the picture was good. However, I was forced to return two of these DVD players as the first arrived with a large dent in the casing. The replacement arrived with a larger dent in the casing, but on the opposite side. Both boxes were in perfect condition along with the internal packing material. This leads me to believe the item was boxed up and sent this way from the factory. The price is low but I guess the adage holds true that you get what you pay for. It's a shame as I'm sure a lot of work went into packing this many features into a unit and keeping the price as low as they have.
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Summary: What you get when you do not buy a name brand?
Review: My overall experience with this system and company is very low because of the following reasons: the system broke down after 3 weeks of min. use, the company does not pay for shipping for the item under warranty, the call to request the status of item to be fixed is long distance call, the website for the company is not accessible for information through both major browsers (the front web page is accessible but the information for products are not), it takes a long time for them to try to fix a product (3-4 weeks) but at the end of the period they claim product is not under warranty because of some minute detail. I also feel this product was engineered without considering the heat issues; therefore breaking down early. Next time, I will only consider name brand products to avoid the non-professionalism.
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Summary: So Far So Good...But...
Review: Well, so far everything looks lovely. The unit plays many formats as advertised, most impressive of all: raw mpeg files (non-vcd encoded). ... The unit is new to my posession, so I'd like to comment on a few things immediately noticeable: 1. When powered off, the unit has a bold red light signifying its current status. It's large and abrassive, and throws the humbled look of my predominantly-dark-colored stereo gear way off. I've since covered it with a sticker and it has helped increase the ambiance of the entertainment center. 2. The drive opens and closes very slow. Not only slow, it retracts and extends with a pathetic whine. One must question the drive tray motor's life expectancy. Additionally, the tray when fully extended, is still a bit submerged within the unit's actual innards. As you insert a disc onto the tray, you have to guide the disc somwehat inside the dvd unit, and down onto the tray so as not to scratch the disc. I'd much prefer the tray extend outward well enough that a disc simply be placed onto the tray without having to worry about potentially scratching. Still, these points aside, the unit is well worth the small investment. However, the unit serves as an additional player within my gear, and not the primary player. Admittedly, this is my first Apex purchase and I am a bit suscpicious. But keep these points in mind. It receives a 4-star rating from this 1st week owner.
Rating: 
Summary: High compatibilities, low quality
Review: The remote on my Apex DVD player stopped working after just few weeks; this leave me unable to navigate the menu since there is only a few buttons on the player itself. DVD player has problem waking after Power Off; the player would not decode properly, so the picture would be scrambled. I have to turn on and off several times to get it functional again. So basically you have to leave the player on all the time to avoid this problem. Good compatibilities, can play vcd without problem. Although it can view JPEG, it would distorted the ratio to fit into the TV frame, so it's basically useless for picture viewing.
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Summary: Read to work,
Review: As soon as I turn on and put any video formate, it will play. I love it and you will love it too. Buy it for this low price and enjoy it.
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Summary: Cheap DVD player
Review: This is my first DVD player. It's cheap and it has been working great for me so far. I wish it comes with an alternative color such as black because my other components (Tv, vcr, receiver) are black. The only odd thing about it is the remote control which I don't understand why. I can not power it on from my sofa which is about 15 feet away. I have to get close to the DVD player to power it on. Power off and all other buttons are OK from my sofa. May be APEX designers thought that the first thing people would do is to put in a DVD or change a DVD. In other to do that they have to be right in front of the DVD player. So no need to suck the alot of battery power to power the DVD player on. Who knows...may be it's a defect in the product.
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Summary: Cheap DVD player, but great features
Review: I was a little wary of buying something with the name Apex on it, but after I got it hooked up I was glad I did. The picture is gorgeous and the features are outstanding for such a low price. The instructions are a little hard to understand, and can lead to a lot of frustration. For the reviewer who had problems with the red lines; the problem can be fixed by changing the output from s-video to component. The only thing about the dvd player I didn't like was the fact that when using dolby digital, you cannot get secondary audio via the red and white cables at the same time. No biggie though. I am definetly satisfied.
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