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What makes a DVD player freeze momentarily?

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ro...@cc.home.org

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Apr 25, 2002, 5:10:19 AM4/25/02
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One of three Apex model 3201 DVD players with essentially consecutive
serial numbers will freeze momentarily during dvd playback. The other
two units do not exhibit this behavior. What could be the problem?

Mark D. Zacharias

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Apr 25, 2002, 6:22:58 AM4/25/02
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Most often this is a bad pickup. DVD's suffer from this a lot. I don't know
if Apex even sells parts.

Mark Z.


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David

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Apr 25, 2002, 11:04:57 AM4/25/02
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It is a junk low priced DVD player. Face it, they are selling the APEX DVD
players for a WHOPPING $69. A 33% initial failure rate is not uncommon on
the no-name Far East junk made to sell at super low price.

Problem with DVD players, a lot of manufactures are buying the super cheap
optics and having a lot of pickup problems.

David

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root

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Apr 25, 2002, 1:11:40 PM4/25/02
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David <dkuh...@locl.net.REMOVE> wrote:
> It is a junk low priced DVD player. Face it, they are selling the APEX DVD
> players for a WHOPPING $69. A 33% initial failure rate is not uncommon on
> the no-name Far East junk made to sell at super low price.
>
> Problem with DVD players, a lot of manufactures are buying the super cheap
> optics and having a lot of pickup problems.
>

Sure its a cheapo: was $49 after rebate. I looked inside and it uses a DVD
drive that is the same as is used on other, more expensive, Apex models. Maybe
they are all low quality but I have seen 4 model AD600 Apex units that do not
have the pauses. I tried a flash update of the drive firmware with no
consequence. There are a number of reasons for going with Apex, not the least
are the ability to defeat macrovision and region codes. Also, all the Apex
units that I have seen use a standard IDE interface to the drive, so you can
replace the drive with an off-the-shelf standard.

ThomasNews

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May 2, 2002, 5:57:25 AM5/2/02
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I've replaced the drive with a standard IDE Toshiba pc DVD drive. Watch the
speed you choose though. Faster ones can rattle like hell!.

You can also put a hard drive in these for hours and hours of mp3 music.

Just my two cents........


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root

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May 2, 2002, 2:39:13 PM5/2/02
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ThomasNews <thoma...@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> I've replaced the drive with a standard IDE Toshiba pc DVD drive. Watch the
> speed you choose though. Faster ones can rattle like hell!.
>
> You can also put a hard drive in these for hours and hours of mp3 music.
>
> Just my two cents........
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Thanks for responding. I would rather put a 100Gb hard drive with a number
of my favorite movies. Personal observation about Apex players: pauses are
quite rare on AD600 models, higher on 1500 and 3201. They all seem to
use the same dvd drives.

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