Apex AD-1600 DVD Player
Functional, but for how long?
I received this DVD player as a gift for Christmas 2002, so I've had it for roughly 13 months.  My parents had given my sister the same model, so we've actually had two of this item to look at comparatively.  About 6 or 7 months after getting the players, the picture on hers began rolling and the color began fading in and out, from normal to very dark and back again.  <br />I haven't encountered any problems with mine up until now, and that is just recently noticing that every so often when playing a disc the 'motor sound' that so many of you mentioned will come up and last for 5 or 10 minutes.  It's bearable for now, but after reading all of these bad reviews (and seeing that most of these same things happened with my sister's player), I feel safe in assuming this is only the beginning of my problems with this player.  I'm not even going to wait to see what else goes wrong with it--I'm in the market for a new DVD player.<br />My advice is, the so-called 'reputable' brands aren't always the greatest either, but when a product gets this many negative comments, you can bet it's not worth the money.