Apex AD500 DVD Player
Warning: Flawed Product
I've never written a review on this site before, but I did think it was important to put up a warning about this DVD player. I bought one nine months ago. The first sign of trouble came that night, when it stopped playing a disc halfway through. That was a slightly scratched disc, so I thought nothing of it. Weeks went by with no problems, and the return time elapsed.<br />Then it started getting bad. It often stopped playing in the middle of the disc, often when a new chapter tried to start. This would result in the screen freezing, then displaying digitized static. More often, it wouldn't read discs at all. I would put in the disc, it would whir for half a minute, then it would give up and report \\"no disc.\\" Sometimes it would load the FBI warning, then crash before the movie or the main menu loaded. This happened about 60% of the time when I put in a new disc. Sometimes I could get it to read if I kept inserting the same disc, sometimes not. Also, the player routinely crashed when trying to play special features.<br />I haven't damaged the player at all. It's sat in the same place since I bought it. I see that other people have given positive reviews and said that their players are flawless, and I'm glad for them. I just wanted to report the problems I've had with mine.