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  1. Whish of these 2 players do u think i should get. I am mostly only going to use them for svcd playing. The 3 cd one would be ideal but i dont want to get it if it is bad at playing svcds. So any suggestions?
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    the 3 disc dvd player seems cool but i own a apex ad-1500 and it plays VCD's ok... I ASSUME SVCD should be ok also...
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  3. I would go for the AD5131!! Circuit City has them on sell this week for 99.00 us. I actually will be picking one of thes up myself. The AD1500 is hackable with firmware. The AD5131 is not as of yet. Keep your receipt, try it out with some svcd and vcd before you decide to keep it. It should also play straight mpegs burned to disks and jpegs that you can set up as slide shows. From past experience though, when SVCD or VCD's for that matter buck at play back (whether its an Apex or otherwise ,as long as it is a know compatable player), the encoding of the VCD & SVCD is wont often causes the problem. So....make sure you test it with properly encoded material.

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  4. I have the 5131, and I love it! If you burn a multi-disc SVCD movie, that changer is real handy. Very versatile as far as what vcd's and svcd's it plays. I have thrown several resolutions, bitrates, etc. some very non-standard vcd's, and plays them beautifully. The only type it chokes on is low-bitrate mpgeg-2 (SVCD), so if you put a whole movie on 1 cd, (>1500kbs bitrate), stick with mpeg-1 vcd, and it works great. I burned a disc in ISO format, with jpeg pictures and mpeg video clips both, as it went through the slideshow, it would play the video clips right along with with the pictures in a slideshow. Just stick an mpeg file in the root directory of a cd-r or rw, and if it's within range of it's capability, it'll play it.
    Approx ability:
    900-1700kb/s mpeg-1@352x240 (tested) resolution
    1300-2800+?kb/s mpeg 2 @352x240,480x480,720x480 (tested) res.
    audio below 128kb not practical in my experience.
    I'm sure other apex players are similary capable.
    Two tips for this unit: always turn the power off, a CD still spins after you press stop, and the 3CD changer may make it less durable, as it has more moving parts.
    For 99 bucks, heck yea! I thought it was a steal at $140.
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  5. Read my other post on Apex 1500
    http://forum.vcdhelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=87310
    my Apex 1500 didn't show all video image in NTSC SVCD
    or maybe just me
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