I've actually been very happy with my Apex, after replacing the
capacitor it's been reliable, it was also very easy to hack the firmware
to make it region free and turn off macrovision, it plays everything
I've thrown at it so far.


I have heard of that and the fact a few of the early Apex had a generic
drive in them with a common plug strip so a computer drive could fit
right in .
I think i have a couple early Apex players new in box in my bone yard .