Apex AD-1200 DVD Player
Years of use - bitrate issues
I've had this deck for several years now.<br />This deck is fine with black+white movies [almost everything I watch is from the 1930s].  It has problems with higher-bitrate encoded DVDs.<br />DVD is software.  The MPEG datarates can vary depending on the manufacturer.<br />The only DVDs I've had problems playing on this deck are certain Deep Space Nine disks.  When I watch multiple episodes the memory defragmentation problems causes shows to stop and get out of sync, etc.<br />The solution to this is to turn the DVD player off and then on again, then go directly to the episode you want to watch.<br />This is a great player.  three nine buks it kost me.  It plays VCDs and SVCDS flawlessly.  And like I said I have only seen problems on certain DVDs with high bitrate encodings.