I know that, but I have at least a pair of DVDs
for which I have the
service manual (elite models from Panasonic). Also, there is the -
excellent - LD / DVD player from panasonic, for which also there is a
service manual.
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.
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).
I still use the good old video baseband output,
and it is well
documented. I have no need for HDMI, since I still cannot afford a
plasma/lcd display.
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
2) But why would I want a DVD player? What would
I use it for? Unlike
background music or a radio, a DVD player (or TV) requires you to watch
the output. Whcih means you can't be doing anything else at the same
time. I've got quite enough books to read, computers to document and
restore, projects to build, cmaeras to fix, skills to improve, related
thinsg to learn about, etc that I don't have any interest in waching DVDs
.
There are excellent DVDs about these subject ;o)
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.
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.
-tony