Apex AD-2500 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
An Epiphany...
My player is just out of the box, and I understand from reading the other reviews I only have a 50/50 chance of it surviving very long, but I don't care... this thing is amazing. I've spent I don't know how many hundreds of hours screwing around with jpeg slide-show programs, ripping and encoding vcds that my expensive DVD player didn't like, having to convert and burn music cds from my mp3 files... and on and on. <BR>    So now for all of [item price] I get a piece of hardware that hooks up to my tv and plays almost every type of media that exists!  Thanks to these cheapo players from Asian mystery companies, I can only assume that the big companies will have no choice but to follow suit with reliable, inexpensive players of thier own. <BR>    This is the future, and it should have been here a long time ago. The future is cheap, universal hardware, not a zillion different third-party applications that force you through countless contortions on your computer so you can watch your media in your living room. Huzzah!