Apex AD-1225 DVD Player
Great player for the price
I bought this for under $50, and it is an amazing deal. It plays a lot of formats, including VCDs, though I must say it is heavy handed wrt VCD copyrights (ie. a burnt copyrighted VCD may not play, but you gotta live with that these days).<br />Other than that, the Apex 1225 is almost perfect. Two little problems:  1. The remote can only put it in standby, to turn it completely off, you gotta walk to the unit. 2. It ignores commands during major operations such as power-on, you must wait for power-on to complete before hitting play or eject. This is a trivial problem, you get used to the roughly 5-second delay in no time.<br />The reviewer before me is unhappy that if you change aspect ratio, the people look weird... D-UH.