[urgeok2]

my first DVD player was a divx player ..

anyone in the USA remember these ?

you 'rented' divx movies from circuit city - it billed your credit card every time you watched it - you never had to bring it back ..

(i dont believe they ever found a hack for it either)

someone was bringing these players up here and selling them in flea markets - because they played regular DVDs ..

i bought one for $250 at a time when the players were closer to $600 - 700 or more.. it worked for a long while before having problems ..

then i bought the APEX on ebay for $75 many years ago ... i bought that particular model because you could hack it to play region free plus it did PAL/NTSC..

it's still running but it stops from time to time and i have to reverse and forward to get it going ... only use that one for pal movies now.