Apex AD-1225 DVD Player

by Apex

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008N6X3
• Item model number: AD1225
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,196 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The ultraslim Apex AD-1225 does double duty as a movie source and a music player, providing high-end video outputs as well as decoding for the popular MP3 and Windows Media Audio music formats. If you burn pictures from a digital camera to CD-Rs and CD-RWs, you can even use the player for watching slideshows right on a TV. Apex's active full screen function (AFF) helps resize widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) video images to fill 4:3 aspect-ratio sets.

Top-of-the-line component-video outputs help minimize line scan and digital artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television. Onboard Active Full-Screen function magnifies widescreen images to utilize the full LCD, eliminating the black bars that normally accompany widescreen programs.

In the audio realm, a sets of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each optical and coaxial) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. Other features include a video fluorescent display, 2x and 4x picture zoom, frame-by-frame advance, and an LED indicator for power status.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So far, better than so good, September 20, 2003

By 

Area51Tactical - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apex AD-1225 DVD Player (Electronics)

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!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars DVD Player plays most DVDs, May 1, 2005

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L. (OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apex AD-1225 DVD Player (Electronics)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Junk , plain and simple, April 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Apex AD-1225 DVD Player (Electronics)

I purchased this Apex DVD player on a Sunday and by Tuesday evening, It was on its way back to Sears. This player sucks. I figured I would try it out Sunday evening and rented a movie. Within twenty minutes of the movie, the player started freezing up and the sound completely went in and out. This continued to happen throughout the movie. I would turn the player off and restart again and same thing over and over. Freezing of the movie, lost sound and also.. the open and close button on the player seemed to work when it wanted to. Also, there seemed to be an odor coming from the machine when I turned it on. This DVD player is cheap for the money and now I know why. Nothing more than junk. Don't waste your money. I took it back and bought a Samsung for more money and so far so good. I can't believe the Apex would sell such junk. The store clerk at Sears says that they sell a lot of these players. I am willing to bet they have lots of returns too. I am giving this Apex product a 1 star. One good thing is the remote was easy to manage, still I wouldn't buy it and I am done with Apex products.