Apex AD-1200 DVD Player
Great Budget Entry Level Player
Basically all I wanted was a DVD player that could play rental and library DVDs with no problems without having to spend a lot of money for features that I would never use.  I feel the Apex 1200 is a good decent player that delivers on performance at a very reasonable price.  There are only a couple of minor nits.  Every once in a while the picture pauses for about a second and then continues.  It seems to happen mostly near the end of a movie, but not on every movie, so it's possible it is a disk quality problem, rather than a player problem.  But it's minor and barely noticeable, and I can live with it.  My other minor complaint is that there is no front panel LED display to let me know where I'm at in the movie.  However, there is an on screen display you can turn on to either give you just the time elapsed/time remaining or a more detailed display with chapters and titles and a bunch of other stuff, whenever you feel a need to know where you are at.  If you are watching a movie in letterbox format you can leave the timer display permanently turned on without it encroaching on the movie area anyway.  The manual is very well written, with clear helpful diagrams, making it a snap to hook up the player and look up any features you want to know about.  Another nice feature is being able to hit the stop button and having the player remember where you are so when you hit play again it will start again from that point.  To conclude, this review is based on about a month's use (a total of maybe 8-10 movies) so I can't say anything about durability yet.