free apex dvd player with $25 purchase at viking.com

[dc]

player not region free? people having trouble finding hacks for it. i'm screwed if i can't play region 2 dvds. lol.

 

[mkygod]

Hey, I didnt even think of that. Thanks for the idea. I do have a spare 6x creative dvdrom layin around.

EDIT: I just opened up the unit to take a look (this voids the warranty, though the warranty does not work if you did not buy the unit from an authorized dealer, which i doubt viking is). It does not look like a standard dvd-rom drive to me. Its very bare, without any dvdrom metal casing around it. There's no IDE connector or Molex connecter to be found.

 

[STotaro]

is $100k a "VERY HUGE" credit limit?

 

[mkygod]

Yes it is, what do you have, a black American express card? I dont know what that has to do w/ this thread through.

 

[vanionBB]

I heard there was an apex dvd player that took a Divx upgrade and would play divx movies. Can anyone check to see if this is one of those?

 

[gotensan01]

Originally posted by: mkygod
Yes it is, what do you have, a black American express card? I dont know what that has to do w/ this thread through.

Originally posted by: gotensan01
I think someone with a VERY HUGE credit limit should buy one of the $99,999 items. Let's see if this online company will automatically cancel the order due to a "price error". They sure are ready to cancel when they lose money but I don't know if they would cancel when making money...

He was replying to my suggestion.

[/b]EDIT: [/b] btw, a quick question for you guys that already got your package. On my order summary it says "Status: Delivered" and in the Order Summary it lists "Apex Digital AD-1165...". Does this mean that I will be getting it or is it still not certain if they substituted it? For those that got a substitution, did you Order Summary show a different product?

 

[KKCC]

Thanks OP, I'm supposed to get mine Tues.

 

[funboy6942]

No more dvd players 🙁

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: gotensan01

Originally posted by: mkygod
Yes it is, what do you have, a black American express card? I dont know what that has to do w/ this thread through.

Originally posted by: gotensan01
I think someone with a VERY HUGE credit limit should buy one of the $99,999 items. Let's see if this online company will automatically cancel the order due to a "price error". They sure are ready to cancel when they lose money but I don't know if they would cancel when making money...

He was replying to my suggestion.

[/b]EDIT: [/b] btw, a quick question for you guys that already got your package. On my order summary it says "Status: Delivered" and in the Order Summary it lists "Apex Digital AD-1165...". Does this mean that I will be getting it or is it still not certain if they substituted it? For those that got a substitution, did you Order Summary show a different product?

my order showed same ..rec'd 7701 via UPS and plays fine original Oceans Eleven and my RicohJPNR01 burnt @8x backup of same 🙂
$32 shipped for a genuine HP15 black cart and the Apex 7701..nice deal 😉

 

[moshquerade]

way cool - just got my free Apex 7701 dvd player delivered too, and it works just fine. :thumbsup:

 

[Aztech]

$32 shipped for a genuine HP15 black cart and the Apex 7701..nice deal

That's exactly what I ordered. Glad to hear that they're coming in. Nice deal indeed. 🙂

 

[moshquerade]

one of the better reviews
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/m...t/0302/aachapter31.htm

 

[Wag]

Audioreview

I purchased one of these years ago for $300. It couldn't even get through a single SACD or DVD-A without locking up or cracking up, etc. I returned it.

I hope they fixed them.

 

[Aztech]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
one of the better reviews
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/m...t/0302/aachapter31.htm

That's gotta be a really old article. They mention the price being $279! And, it was just weird reading all that audiophile stuff with regards to an APEX unit. I'm no audiophile, but I would've never thought an APEX would even be mentioned by one. Anyways, sounds promising, I guess I'll trying breaking it in when I receive it.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Aztech

Originally posted by: moshquerade
one of the better reviews
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/m...t/0302/aachapter31.htm

That's gotta be a really old article. They mention the price being $279! And, it was just weird reading all that audiophile stuff with regards to an APEX unit. I'm no audiophile, but I would've never thought an APEX would even be mentioned by one. Anyways, sounds promising, I guess I'll trying breaking it in when I receive it.

true dat, but as we know this is a discontinued model.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: mkygod
Hey, I didnt even think of that. Thanks for the idea. I do have a spare 6x creative dvdrom layin around.

EDIT: I just opened up the unit to take a look (this voids the warranty, though the warranty does not work if you did not buy the unit from an authorized dealer, which i doubt viking is). It does not look like a standard dvd-rom drive to me. Its very bare, without any dvdrom metal casing around it. There's no IDE connector or Molex connecter to be found.

My apologies then for suggesting that. I was under the impression that they used (cheap) PC DVD-ROM drives, at least the early Apex units did. (this link at least still claims that.)

There is a link to some (pretty-much all negative) reviews here .

The difference is, most of them paid $250-400 for the unit. From reading the reviews, it appears that the unit may use a combo DVD/CD optical pickup unit made by Sony, of the same era of the early PS2 game consoles, and suffers from the same type of disc-read defects, unfortunately. That might also explain why the units were not produced with low-cost PC DVD-ROM-type drives, as I don't believe that Sony made any at that time using their new optical pickup design.

News article discussing the introduction of the AD-7701 in Dec. of 2001 here .

Here is a link to a page about someone swapping the drive from a different DVD player unit, maybe that would help?