Customer Reviews

Apex AD-1225 DVD Player

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

I bought one of these "value" Apex DVD players from Amazon about six months ago. The thing had an annoying hum at times, but worked... at first. After two months it wouldn't play DVDs longer than maybe 90 minutes. I tried calling their service line - no one answered the phone. I went to their Website and wrote to their service e-mail address - I received no response, ever.

My guess is they figure (rightly) that no one is going to go to a lot of legal trouble over a device that costs less than $100. There are other companies that make low-end DVD players and other equipment - patronize one of them instead of Apex.

I purchased an Apex AD-1225 DVD player for my parents and it works excellent with no problems to date. The picture quality is great and gives great sound when playing CD's. This DVD player also plays MP3 and Kodak picture CD's. Alot of features for not alot of money!!! Highly recommend this product!!!

This must be the fifth DVD player I've ever owned, yet it is the first I've ever felt compelled to write about. It worked fine for about a month, then quickly started to disintegrate. While it can play and recognize DVD-R, DVD-RW and the like, it skips constantly, even playing normal pressed dvds. Sometimes it will just lock-up for no reason, usually when you're fast forwarding. CDs play fine, as do MP3s (If you can deal with the horrible menu). Do yourself a favor and buy a brand-name item.

Cheap and ludicrously worse than even that price suggests. 30 minutes after I inserted ANY DVD, the picture would skip, freeze, sporadically display subtitles, and would even mess up the synchronization between the sound and the picture. You can only blame the performance on an uneven surface for so long before you get fed up. Save your money.