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Apex AD-5131 3-Disc DVD Player

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8 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

Do Not Buy This Product

(1 out of 5) by M. Sommers on Dec 11, 2001 (Leesburg, VA USA)
I purchased the AD770 (basically, last year's version of this model) and have had nothing but problems. After about 2 months it stopped playing audio CD's (CD-R's, as well as regular store-bought CD's). Since then it has gotten worse. There are occasions when the door will not open, holding my DVD's hostage for a couple days at a time. When it does get around to opening, it quickly closes itself back up, leaving me only a few seconds to snatch my precious media. I went out and bought the Toshiba SD2715 that has all the same features and is in the same price range. I haven't had any problems with it.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

OK player

(3 out of 5) by Duane Nason on Jun 13, 2002 (san diego - house of duane)
I have this player. It seems to lack a few features, but perhaps i just haven't figured it out yet. for instance, it doesn't seem to go to teh next cd/dvd when it's done playing. it also doesn't seem to save the preferences that get set, such as the volume, the user-defined EQ, etc. but it plays mp3s, vcds, and svcd, not to mention dvds and regular cds. so it's pretty decent.
- duane nason
2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

high pitch noise

(1 out of 5) by Chin Hong Li on May 23, 2003 (Atlantic City, New Jersey United States)
when the disc is spinning in the dvd player, it makes a high pitch noise sound to the speakers.
I would not recommand this dvd player.
3 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Very bad player !!! Don't buy it !!!

(1 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Jun 21, 2002
I decided to return it the day after I bought it. I couldn't stand it any longer.

These are the reasons:

1. When it played DVD, it always paused about 0.5 sec when switching to the next chapter. It was very annoying because the movie could not be played smoothly.

2. The romote control was awful. I needed to point the remote control directly to the device within a very short range to control it.

3. The mechanism was very slow - in terms of loading the discs and change the discs.

4. I couldn't stop the machine when I watched VCD. I could pause it, but could not stop it. What a junk!

5. The user interface was very unfriendly. It's very hard to find the function I was looking for.

6. User's manual was not useful at all. It didn't explain any new terms about the DVD player that I've never heard before. It was written carelessly and couldn't help users with their troubles.

I am an electrical enginner and have used many personal electronics before. This one is definitely the most horrible electronic product I have ever seen in my life. I cannot believe any company can make a junk like this and still sell it. It's a big joke!