Word of caution. NEVER buy an APEX (or Oritron) DVD Player if you are expecting to be able to upgrade a few months down the road by selling it on eBay.
You will not be able to sell it on eBay because Philips Corp. is actively VeRO-ing all auctions containing the words APEX (or Oritron) and DVD (the two key things you'd place in your auction to allow people to find it of course).
Don't know what VeRO is? It's companies (or individuals) who register themselves with eBay to protect their copyrights and/or trademarks and/or patents. They can submit lists of "potential infringing" auctions to eBay, and eBay will BLINDLY cancel all the items they send. There is NO way to fight this, other than suing Philips directly. eBay will claim they've just done what the copyright holder has requested. If you relist your auction again, your account will be suspended for 30 days. Do it again, your account is PERMANENTLY suspended. Also don't try to list from a new account name using ANY computer IP address that was used for your other account... ALL of your accounts will be suspended.
Why? They claim that these 2 companies (Apex/Oritron) havn't paid them patent royalties for DVD video and CD Audio playback technology, and therefore it is illegal to sell the items in the United States.
Problem is: You can buy them everywhere EXCEPT eBay currently (K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon, Buy.com, BestBuy, Circuit City, Sams, even grocery stores!) They "can't discuss active legal action with regards to availability in the general retail market" but "they will not allow 3rd party eBay sales at this time".
Just a word of warning. Pay $10 more for the Mintek at BestBuy or $30 more for the Daewoo at Sams, and then you won't have to worry about not being able to resell the item.