Apex AD-800 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Poorly designed, and built with underrated components
I gave it 2 since it did work for a few months under EXTREMELY LIGHT USE!  I even turned off the hardware power button after each use, but it was pointless since the player still died with only about 50 hours of runtime.<br />It turns out this player has a very poorly designed power supply unit, that uses underrated capacitators.  Apparently this might not be the only Apex unit affected by this, but I think it might be a combination problem with the underrating and the fact that there has recently been a bad strain of capacitators in Asia.  Whatever the cause, use underrated capacitators sure doesn't help!<br />Very annoyed, although hopefully I will be able to get my unit working again after replacing the capacitators.  If you notice red lines showing up on your LCD display on the front of your unit and the display is dim, PLEASE STOP USING THE UNIT!  Further use will eventually cause the capacitators to explode.  If you catch it in time theoretically the capacitators could be replaced, although I don't know if anybody's actually gotten this to work. =(