14 Dec
2009
14 Dec
'09
9:23 p.m.
I suspect such players are too expenice _new_ for me
even to consider
buying, and contain suffieicently complex custom ICs that it's a bad idea
to buy one for which manufacuters spares are no longer available.
They **were** expensive. Now they are almost free. No one wants
something that only plays DVDs.
Want something hackable? Look for an AP660 from Apex. No service manual
but full listing of the ROM :oD
And how detailed are these service manuals? Any real
details on the
internals of the chips (at least one of my old VCR service manuals
includes transisotr-level schematics of all the ICs).
Now you are a bit on the heavy side... :) No, you don't have the layouts
of the ICs.
No, I've got nothing to feed HDMI into either, but
it would still worry me
that there's undocuemtned ciorcuity in the DVD player driving an
undocumetned (to me) interface
But what is the matter on that? I'll not use that anyways :) And my unit
don't have HDMI out.
And there are some even more excellent books about
said subjects. Books
don't crash, don't have undocuemtned interfaces, don't needme to produce
service mnauls for them, and so on. And I can read a book anywhere,
including at my workbench.
But don't have video :)
I've yet to se a DVD (as opposed to a DVD-ROM,
which is not useable on
DVD player normally) about the technical side of classic computing.
Jim? :oD