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unit worked great for 3 weeks then video output failed .

negative

the catch is that , while it plays movies just fine , it has refused to read second discs with the movie `` extras `` on them on the two occasions when i tried to do that .

negative

the remote is a little hard to understand .

negative

my jpeg pictures are viewable ( not so sharp and vivid ) on my 27 `` screen but seem not as clear as when i view them on my 17 `` monitor .

negative

video output stopped working .

negative

this was an awesome player , before the video output no longer worked ( after about 3 weeks ) .

negative

what a disappointment ! .

negative

there was occasionally a lip-sync issue ( the lips were n 't moving in time to the dialog ) .

negative

output went black and white only via both s-video and composite connections , and with no v-hold .

negative

p . s the remote control does seem to get confused at times and doesnt respond but it may be just operator error ? .

negative

what the hell is wrong with this thing .

negative

forget about the sleek looks if it can 't play some of your real dvds .

negative

so now it still plays everything , you just can 't see it ! .

negative

the first one we installed did n 't work , and our kids were devastated to say the least .

negative

update : january 27th 2004 - the second one crapped out only after a week - dont buy this product ! .

negative

i immediately had problems getting the player to recognize two of my favorite dvds .

negative

only one disk played through to completion successfully .

negative

when we tried to hook up the first one , it was broken - the motor would not eject discs or close the door .

negative

when i tried to install the second dvd player in my brothers house , that one didn `` t work either ! .

negative

imagine my shock - and absolute instant disdain for any products made by apex .

negative

the ad-1600 did n 't work correctly from the start and the ad-1220 lasted about a week and a half before it started to act up .

negative

the front door is miss aligned on my unit and you have to manually life it up just so slightly for the door to close , a very annoying thing after ah wile .

negative

i can 't rate it one star only because when it does work it 's pretty good .

negative

only owned it about two weeks so i expect we 're looking at getting another progressive scan dvd player of higher quality very soon .

negative

the player kept displaying `` no disc `` , so i tried the disc in another machine and sure as @ # * ! .

negative

5 ) this apex model 2600 will not work with my universal remote control .

negative

finally you will read a post somewhere that all codes are useless for the apex 2600 .

negative

one still works fine , the other quit after one day .

negative

apex 's website is down and they wo n 't answer their phone .

negative

it seems to be a little slow when identifying a new disc that 's inserted - maybe 10 seconds of wait .

negative

when i hooked it up it only produced sound - a cd played fine , but with a dvd i only got the audio - no picture ! .

negative

seemed like a good deal , but this pps frequently can not recognize dvds and music cds -- takes a long time loading and then concludes , `` no disc `` .

negative

granted , i have only used this dvd player for about 2 hours setting it up for my mom for christmas , but that was long enough for me to find problems with this dvd player .

negative

this is extremely lame .

negative

the remote is flimsy-feeling and awkward to use .

negative

in addition , it only seems to work if you 're about five feet away from the player , although that may have been just the batteries that came with it .

negative

it played only one out of three dvd 's without problems , the other two being afflicted by a number of glitches .

negative

both of the problem dvd 's would repeatedly freeze during playback , while the counter on the player kept going .

negative

i was impressed by this very inexpensive player . for the first three hours , and then it died .

negative

there are a couple of quirks that were a bit annoying like having to actually press the power button before the tray will open ( my perv . machine did it automatically ) , and the fact that the external display is too small and too faded to read from any significant distance .

negative

i try navigating using the player 's built in menu , and it still would n 't work ! .

negative

unfortunately , the player would not read any of my region one dvds . even though they were not damaged in any way .

negative

i called apex 's support number numerous times but it just kept ringing .

negative

the one i purchased for a friend as a gift will not read any dvd disc .

negative

however , it has failed to deliver on quality .

negative

it does not only have difficulty playing jpegs , it even has trouble properly playing dvd movies .

negative

i read in consumer reports that apex is a reliable brand , but with my experience and reading the other reviews , i think i will be doing a little more homework before considering another apex product .

negative

the 2600 had false silver plate instead of play display .

negative

however , it does not play windows media and i can not get it to play any of my dix rips .

negative

* main dial is not backlit .

negative

the lens is visible in the viewfinder when the lens is set to the wide angle , but since i use the lcd most of the time , this is not really much of a bother to me .

negative

1 ) quite bulky ( it 's about the same size as my minolta vectors s-1 aps slr ) and uses a heavy battery , although not very solid as it is contracted mostly of plastic ( unlike canon 's elph line )

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2 ) not very ergonomically - you 'll find even for a point-and-shoot lens )

negative

4 ) the viewfinder is bordered lcd skying .

negative

the only two minor issues i have with the camera are the lens cap ( it is not very snug and can come off too easily ) and the lens itself ( it partially obstructs the view through the viewfinder but not views through the lcd ) .

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the only drawback is the viewfinder is slightly blocked by the lens .

negative

b ) the lens cover is surely loose , i already accidently finger-printed the len a few times , and au lens ti gt and cause potential damage .

negative

maybe it is my lack of experience , but i found shots with this camera very disappointing .

negative

it was ( i sold it after a few months ) too expensive for the shots that i got .

negative

sure it had all the features , but when i tried to shoot a girl 's basketball game it just wan 't up to the task .

negative

i found that low light situations combined with any sort of action left this camera in the dust .

negative

the grain was terrible .

negative

well flash photos are never great , and there was still a lot of noise .

negative

the two limitations i knew i would have to deal with are the very long lag time before it focus-locks ( even in bright light ) , and the unsatisfactory light quality of the built-in flash .

negative

now there is one more complaint i have about the g3 and that is the software that comes with it for processing raw images ( i only shoot in raw image mode and the first thing i did was replace the 32 mbyte cf with a 512 mbyte cf , which gives me 130 raw images , as opposed to 7 ! .

negative

the canon software for raw images does not present you with a raw image at all , but the raw image after it has been processed by all the image-affecting settings in the camera .

negative

about the only legitimate criticism from the online reviews is that fact that the lens really does obstruct the viewfinder .

negative

the g3 had problems focusing in low light and would not take the picture when the shutter was pressed but after the shutter had been released a few seconds .

negative

it sometimes takes the picture at some indefinite period of time after you press the shutter button .

negative

unfortunately , this digital moment-capturing device called the g3 sometimes captures the moment after the one you wanted .

negative

1 ) the included lens cap is very loose on the camera .

negative

2 ) the body construction - buttons , casing , etc , are too plastic .

negative

it had a heavier and more sturdy casing .

negative

one little minor flaw with this camera is that the lens is visible in the viewfinder , but does not detract from the image at all .

negative

you can see the lens barrel in the view-finder .

negative

( i knew this before hand , and it is not that bad ) there is no tiff format .

negative

one bad thing is that it comes with a pitiful 32mb compactflash card , and for most purposes , it is not enough .

negative

the included memory card is too small .

negative

it is made of plastic .

negative

the zoom lens unit feels fragile and it is worth buying a good camera bag if you are going put to carry it round a lot .

negative

while light , it will not easily go in small handbags or pockets .

negative

the function lever - the one which switches between capture and view mode feels fragile .

negative

flash - as with all built-in flashes in small cameras , you get over illuminated main subjects with depth being lost .

negative

the strap is horrible and gets in the way of parts of the camera you need access to .

negative

when you look through the viewfinder ( not the lcd ) the bottom left corner of the picture ( about 15 % ) is blocked by the lens .

negative

i 've been bothered by blown-out highlights on the s330 , and the g3 seems to do only slightly better .

negative

the on-off button feels somewhat flimsy , and has an awkward , tiny little lock-out button that needs to be depressed to turn on the camera .

negative

and the body / construction in general has quite a bit of plastic , a disappointment after the stainless steel heft of the s330 .

negative

the only minor nits i have with the camera are it is fairly boxy looking , it needs a wrist strap instead of a neck strap , and it is a bit slow between shots .

negative

when i went to put in the new sd card i looked at the lcd screen -- cracked -- and the fluid gave a jackson pollock type appearance to the screen , black and blue and purple blotches and streaks -- useless .

negative

some more manual control would have been nice .

negative

the only knock i have is that the flash is underpowered .

negative

after 57 pictures total the lcd went black except for the icons showing the settings .

negative

you can set the optical zoom before shooting and than while shooting video adjust a digital zoom in and out however due to the cameras light weight camera shake is a problem to contend with .

negative

i would imagine this is a problem with any camera of a compact nature .

negative

the sound is not loud enough when i play back the video clips on the camera .

negative

only downside is when taking pictures in low-light conditions without the flash .

negative

the sd500 has only been in my possession for a little over 3 months , and the lcd has been broken twice .

negative

i took it out one day and the lcd was not working .

negative

although the sd500 takes great quality photos , the sensitivity of the lcd compromises the quality overall .

negative