Rating: 
Summary: Horrible
Review: Cheap and ludicrously worse than even that price suggests. 30 minutes after I inserted ANY DVD, the picture would skip, freeze, sporadically display subtitles, and would even mess up the synchronization between the sound and the picture. You can only blame the performance on an uneven surface for so long before you get fed up. Save your money.
Rating:
Summary: Not so good
Review: DVD player was deffective right out of the box. On certain DVD's, it would make this awful sound (sounded like it was going to blow up) and the DVD would freeze up. After a couple seconds, it would start up again. Immediatley took it back and switched brands. I realized after reading reviews that I wasn't the only one who had trouble.
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Summary: PAL/NTSC
Review: For under $50 you cant get a better DVD player.
It's not top of the line, but it workes fine.
Mostly though it can play PAL and NTSC format DVD's.
Which is why I bought it.
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Summary: Apex customer service is nonexistent
Review: I bought one of these "value" Apex DVD players from Amazon about six months ago. The thing had an annoying hum at times, but worked... at first. After two months it wouldn't play DVDs longer than maybe 90 minutes. I tried calling their service line - no one answered the phone. I went to their Website and wrote to their service e-mail address - I received no response, ever.My guess is they figure (rightly) that no one is going to go to a lot of legal trouble over a device that costs less than $100. There are other companies that make low-end DVD players and other equipment - patronize one of them instead of Apex.
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Summary: Apex customer service is nonexistent
Review: I bought one of these "value" Apex DVD players from Amazon about six months ago. The thing had an annoying hum at times, but worked... at first. After two months it wouldn't play DVDs longer than maybe 90 minutes. I tried calling their service line - no one answered the phone. I went to their Website and wrote to their service e-mail address - I received no response, ever. My guess is they figure (rightly) that no one is going to go to a lot of legal trouble over a device that costs less than $100. There are other companies that make low-end DVD players and other equipment - patronize one of them instead of Apex.
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Summary: Great player for the price
Review: I bought this for under $50, and it is an amazing deal. It plays a lot of formats, including VCDs, though I must say it is heavy handed wrt VCD copyrights (ie. a burnt copyrighted VCD may not play, but you gotta live with that these days). Other than that, the Apex 1225 is almost perfect. Two little problems: 1. The remote can only put it in standby, to turn it completely off, you gotta walk to the unit. 2. It ignores commands during major operations such as power-on, you must wait for power-on to complete before hitting play or eject. This is a trivial problem, you get used to the roughly 5-second delay in no time. The reviewer before me is unhappy that if you change aspect ratio, the people look weird... D-UH.
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Summary: Worked for 10 minutes before it broke!!
Review: I bought this player at Sears for an insanely low price. I should have known something was fishy. It played the first 10 minutes of the first DVD I put in and then it froze and never recovered! I ejected the dvd and I turned off the player, but it is still frozen. The blue Apex screen won't even come on when I turn on the player. Even with this problem, I am going to exchange for another one once Sears has it back in stock because even with this particular faulty unit, you can't beat the price. Hopefully the next one will not have the same problem. Otherwise, I give up and will switch brands.
Rating:
Summary: Not bad...
Review: I had a great Apex DVD player for about a year and a half and then the dang thing wouldn't read Discs anymore so I went to my local Sears to buy a new DVD player and saw another Apex I was very reluctant to buy another one. But, they insisted and it was a great deal only ($$) bucks. I also tacked on a warranty this time. So if anything happens Sears will replace it. I feel this is a great idea as I don't think DVD players are going to be made like our old VHS players, which I still have one that is about 8 years old! But, I have had this one for a year now and it still works great for me. I think it is because I have the warranty as soon as it expires though I have a feeling just as all products do it will crash. But for now it is working great! I hope that continues but if it doesn't I will update to allow everyone to know.
Rating: 
Summary: Good for its price...
Review: I had this dvd player for more than a year now and it's still working fine. However, I only watch 3-4 dvds a month so maybe that's why it lasted so long. The only complaint I have is that the dvd door takes a few seconds to open when I press the EJECT button. I got it cheap at Walmart (around 35). For me, I think it's good for the money.
Rating:
Summary: A pile of junk. Avoid at all costs.
Review: I have heard that Apex makes good, low-cost players, so I thought I'd give this one a shot since it was only $42 at the local Meijer.
I bought one, brought it home, plugged it in, put in a disc, and it wouldn't play. Tried about 10 discs (a mix of store-bought and burned discs) and nothing would play. I took it back, exchanged it for another, and tried again. This time it would play the store-bought discs for a few minutes, then start freezing and skipping. DVD burns wouldn't play at all (I kept getting BAD DISC errors). Again, I tried a number of different discs, all with the same results.
This pile of crap is not even worth the $42 I paid for it. Avoid at all costs.
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