Apex AD-1500 DVD Player
Another Happy Apex User
I bought one of these DVD players about 2 months ago and it was so good I decided to write my first review :-).  I bought this player mainly because I wanted to be able to play VCDs and SVCD on my TV.  I was a little worried after hearing about the reviews that said its tray wouldn't open and other malfunctions, but so far none of these have happened to me.  When I opened it I plugged it in popped in a regular DVD and started it up.  Worked just like a DVD player should.  The Remote is a little irrational, the buttons are just sort of thrown together in a mash of little buttons but its not so bad.  The fast forward, play and other important buttons are easy to find.  I was also very suprised at how well it could play MP3s.  It has a nice easy to use file browser and gave a nice output to my Subwoofer.<br />After burning a VCD I popped it in and it played perfectly.  Then I tried an SVCD and it worked perfectly.  Then a XVCD and a XSVCD (which I don't think anyone has metioned yet) and they worked perfectly.  I messed around with the bitrates for a while and eventually figured out it can play bitrates up to 4000 (XVCD) and 5000 (XSVCD).  What this means for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about is that you can burn a DVD quality file to a CD and play it.  It means a lot of other stuff too but you can research that yourself ;-). I also put a cool background on it too.  Oh yeah! You can also burn MPEG files to the root and pick one out in the file browser.  This means you don't have to worry about making a VCD file structor and you can burn more than one clip on a CD.<br />Hmmm I think that about sums it up.  So pretty much you should be buying this player right now.  Thats all. lol