Apex 660a for $99 USD - $20 mail-in rebate = $79 at Circut City

[jeepman]

Subject says it all, apparently it is for on-line too. Check the 660 forum at www.nerd-out.com for more details.

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[Dr Mordrid]

That's a steal. I recently applied a patched firmware to mine that disabled Macrovision & made it multi-regional.

Now, with the sole exception of miniDVD, it'll play about anything round with a hole in it. VCD, SVCD, xVCD, xSVCD burned on either CD-R or CD-RW and, of course, commercial DVD's.

The only question is: will it play DVD-R with these new burners from Pioneer & Panasonic?

I have mailed APEX with this question and will post if/when I get an answer.

Dr. Mordrid



[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 22 June 2001).]

[wkulecz]

Maybe I'm just a suspicious sort, but I bet they are being dumped because they won't play DVD-R.

Hope I'm wrong.

--wally.

[Dr Mordrid]

Me too since I have two of 'em (entertainment center & in the lab). If so then the e-center gets a new one and the lab ends up with the 660's. DVD-R previewing there could be done on the burner.

Dr. Mordrid

[jeepman]

Here are recent comments on the 660 from www.vcdhelp.com.

Made my 1st copy of a DVD to DVD-R and it worked flawless. Had to smart rip it to HD to remove decryption first.
I also noticed that this player won't play miniDVD in cd-r/rw but it will play it on DVD-r/rw .One reason to use miniDVD on a DVD would be to make a non-compliant mpeg1 or 2(like (s)vcd ,this would give you lot's of time.A few files that i had on my HD that was vcd ready and another that was S(x)vcd would not work for standard DVD mpeg 1 or 2, the software(myDVD) reported to start a new project and select cDVD(miniDVD).
any way full menus and worked just like DVD in the 660.
Nothing i have made on DVD-r or DVD- rw plays on my Apex 600(N5). I am going to try a firmware upfrade for the loader tray (not the prossecor). And see if that fixes the problem(as i noticed this site states the 600 will play dvd-r)So i hope it will...


Just wanted to report that the 660 played a copy of a DVD on a DVD-RW, exactly like original. Two different attempts.. Haven't tried DVD-r yet. One was a on the fly dvd to dvd and the other was from HD. This was using the new Pioneer DVDR-A03 recorder.
Note! the same DVD-RW disc's did not play on the apex 600