Apex AD-1225 DVD Player

• Slim, single-disc DVD player with mid-sized silver chassis
• Plays MP3 and WMA CDs, JPEG and Kodak picture CDs
• Component-, composite-, and S-video accommodate a wide range of TVs
• Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel digital output (for immersive surround sound when used with a compatible AV receiver)
• Includes Apex Full-screen Function for viewing widescreen movies

I've owned about 6 DVD players, the last one being an AD-1100W (which is still going strong), and needed another so I picked up an AD-1225.. so far it has really impressed me. The menus, particularly the setup and MP3 playing menus, are much nicer aesthetically than on the 1100W, and quality of both picture and sound seems superior. Component video output, BOTH coaxial and optical digital audio outs, a greatly improved remote over earlier ones (no more SHIFT key for navigating menus!), WMA playback and a host of other improvements.

I have to assume that the reviewers who had serious problems with this player simply were unlucky maybe Apex has some quality control issues, but in this day and age returning a unit for another one is usually a piece of cake, and nobody else has anything near as good as this for the price of two or three movies on DVD!

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We got the APEX AD-1225 for Christmas and haven't had that many problems with it. However I discovered that it is selective in the DVD's it chooses to play. We borrowed The Incredibles from a neighbor and it it wouldn't play past the FBI Warning. Thinking it was something wrong with their DVD, we went to the Rental Store and rented The Incredibles. It did the same exact thing. After much research on the computer, I found out that it turns out that some specific kinds of DVD's do not play on the APEX AD-1225. How very disappointing... When you rent or buy a DVD, you assume that it will work in every DVD player but it appears that the creators of DVD players don't always design their players to read all DVD's. My advice is this: If you're in the market for a DVD player, do your research before buying. Don't waste you're money or gift money in this case on a DVD Player that is selective in what it plays.

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I just purchased this product at Sears at a very, very low price for my daughter. It never did recognize the disc. It just kept saying "loading" after we put the disc in. We tried it several times. We will exchange it for another one. Hopefully it will work.

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DVD player was deffective right out of the box. On certain DVD's, it would make this awful sound (sounded like it was going to blow up) and the DVD would freeze up. After a couple seconds, it would start up again. Immediatley took it back and switched brands. I realized after reading reviews that I wasn't the only one who had trouble.

I recently had to return a DVD rental because I thought I had been given a defective disk. The movie played in the AD 1225 for about an hour and then seized up and wouldn't go any further. I took the DVD out of the tray and it looked like someone streaked it with a cigarette lighter. So I sent that back and plopped in a new one. Same thing happened: after an hour, it froze. Same kind of burn streak running across the disc.

I'm considering tracking down a copy of "From Justin to Kelly" just to make absolutely sure the machine eats discs. But no way will I play a movie I actually want to see the end of!