[geeks] Apex DVD players

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:24:15PM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote:

> 	I've got a 660 and love it, it has a few problems, but nothing
> that other 660 owners haven't experienced (skipping on certain CD's,
> freezing up.) It's such a small percentage of what I've played on it, that
> it's not a big deal, and is covered under warranty with a BIOS upgrade. 
> 	That being said, I'm looking at the 1500 myself, or maybe the
> 740(?) which is under $80 here and still has all the features I need/want.

I was having trouble the other day with Holy Smoke.  It kept freezing
than jumping forward a few seconds.  On my 500W that is.

The worst was Bandits.  The machine outright crashed at one point in
the disk, repeatedly.  Yet getting a different copy of the movie fixed
it. No visible damage to the first copy.  Wierd.

If you do get a 1500, do some research and check the serial number of
the machine you buy.  There are two different 1500s.  One is a 500W in
a new package (The 500W firmware hacks work, but don't support the
display), the other is CD-R upgradable and uses 1000 circuitry.  I
personally would probably go for the newer CD-R upgradable one.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd