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CES 2006 Profile: Apex Digital

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Consumer electronics company Apex Digital was busy showing off their 2006 line of products at CES in early January. These new products included a portable DVD player, regular DVD players, LCD TVs and a media center style device.

Apex’s latest entry in the portable DVD player space is the new PD-707. This 7” LCD display model offers USB 2.0 connectivity so that users can connect devices such as a digital camera or MP3 player to get playback of their supported media directly on the DVD player. Other features include wide screen (16:9) display and integrated speakers. It should be available in the second quarter of 2006.

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Apex’s other new DVD players are the full size AD-2200 and AD-2800x. The AD-2200, like the PD-707, offers USB 2.0 connectivity and is a full featured player with functions like support for CD-R/RW and DVD+/-R/RW discs and component video output. It will also be available in the second quarter. As for the AD-2800x, it also offers USB 2.0 connectivity and component video, on top of which is thrown in the ability to upconvert standard DVD video to a high definition video signal and then output that via a HDMI output. It should also see the light of day in the second quarter.

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Apex’s new media center style device is called the CenterPiece. Projected to be available in the third quarter of this year, the CenterPiece incorporates the functions of a DVD player with multi-format DVD and CD playback, USB 2.0 host connectivity for playback of supported digital media formats from digital media devices, a personal video recorder and a home media server which can stream content from networked computers or the Internet. The CenterPiece appears as a standard DVD player, includes component video output, utilizes a standard 10/100 Ethernet connection and offers up an 80GB hard drive for storage of media and recorded television programming.

Apex’s new LCD TVs are highlighted by the AVL-2078 (second quarter availability), a 20” LCD flat panel with 640 x 480 resolution and a 7” counter depth. Other models to be released this year will include the HD ready (DVI+HDCP) 27”, 1280 x 720 AVL-2778, the HD ready (HDMI) 32”, 1366 x 768 AVL-3278 and the HD ready (HDMI) 37”, 1920 x 1080 AVL-3778. The 37” model will also feature Picture over Data capability, allowing users to view television and a computer application at the same time when the TV is connected to a computer via a VGA input. All four models are expected to ship in the second quarter.

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