Apex AD-800 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Was great for a few months
This was a great player.  It would do just about anything I threw at it;  DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, MP3, JPEG, and so on and so on...<br />Then after about 8 months of owning this device, I was watching my brand new Band of Brothers DVD set, when on Disc 2, it warned me that the disc needed cleaning \\"Error: Disc minor - Clean me!\\".  It then started to skip every 5 seconds or so.  I took the disc out, and it was fine.  I thought the unit may have overheated (I had watched Disc one just before and was on Episode 4 on disc 2), so I let the unit sit a bit.  I then tried it again.  This time, it wouldn't even play the disc.  \\"Error: Disc major - Replace me!\\"  I tried another disc, same thing.  I tried the discs in [another] player and they worked fine.  I let the unit sit overnight, same results the next day.  I ran a cleaning disc in the player, then tried it again.  Same results.<br />I contacted Apex tech support.  I was told that I would be charged $...minimum (not including S&H) to have the device even looked at back at the factory.<br />The player is now collecting dust in my closet, and has been replaced with an Philips DVD player.