Apex's new budget portable DVD players

We dimly recall the days when we thought anyone who'd spend $800 or a $1,000 on a portable DVD was crazy, since you could just spent a bit more to get a proper laptop with a DVD drive that could do all the one thing that a portable DVD player (i.e. play DVDs) plus all the other stuff people do with PCs. Well, those days are over, you can snap up a portable DVD player for well under two hundred bucks these days, and Apex Digital, which has been one of the main forces driving prices ever lower, has just refreshed their line with the PD-840 (pictured at right), which has an 8.4-inch LCD screen, the 7.1-inch PD-1710, the 6.6-inch PD-660, and the 5-inch PD-500.