--- Philip Pemberton <philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Ben Franchuk wrote:
> > Try Here for a multi-region DVD player.
> > http://www.jlist.com/
>
> ...I did see a Mustek DVD-V520 player being sold by "Diskhouse"...
My favorite hackable players are made by Apex. There are numerous
sites for how to repair "features" like region encoding and Macrovision.
Not all players are understood well enough to "repair" by the community-
at-large. The AD600A, the 500WM and the 1100W are three that I know
can be done. One problem is that one model number can encompass several
similar products with internal differences, some understood, others
not so well.
Interested parties should do some googling and/or make a trip to
http://www.vcdhelp.com/ Feature shopping guidelines are available
from a variety of web pages.
One caveat: I have an AD600A (the one that shipped with the "YOU SHOULD
NOT BE HERE" menu). I had to upgrade the ROMs (and remove that menu,
unfortunately) to fix some bugs in the player that interfered with
playback of certain discs (there was a serious filesystem bug with SVCD
discs). Sometimes you have to give up certain features to gain others.
Shop wisely.
-ethan
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Received on Tue Sep 10 2002 - 11:42:00 BST