- DVD Duplicator - 5 Updates
- Vox AC30 , 1961, Buff cab and brown diamond grill cloth - 1 Update
| John Robertson <spam@flippers.com>: Jan 14 09:33AM -0800 > But then even PC DVDs had regions. I HAD one on which the region was never set and I made a point not to. You oculd only set it five times IIRC. The software it came with reqwuired you to set it. I refused and used it as a DVD ROM,l nd whatever. I do not know what happened to it actually. It might be around here somewhere. > I gotta talk to the dude I guess. If he is not dealing wiht international DVDs, most likely two drives set to region one willl work fine, unless there ar ehardware issuies. thatis wha tI was asking. Bt actuyally nex tI work I might just trer into that hting again and see if it is maybe region free. Look up the model numbers and all that. > Tell you this much, the customer did not set the region. ;this thing only has a power button and an eject button on each drive. not much to it at all. Didn't I see somewhere that Wallmart branded DVD players are not regionalized? Not that I've actually checked out this story... John :-#)# -- (Please post followups or tech inquiries to the newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out." |
| retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.): Jan 15 12:42AM Chances are any drive will work. DVD regions are not an issue because they are not PLAYING the discs, just copying data, and a duplicator cannot decrypt a commercially pressed DVD video disc or deal with copy protection anyway. The only video discs they're made for are those you burn yourself. The potential gotcha's are: - DVD drives typically have riplock which limits the read speed on video discs, etc. When a duplicator dealer assembles a duplicator unit, the reader drive usually has custom firmware that eliminates any manufacturer imposed reading speed limits. - The firmware on the duplicator controller board is tpyically written to "support" a variety of common DVD drives AT THE TIME OF MANUFACTURE. If you use "non-supported" drive(s) they're usually pretty permissive but you may have speed or other subtle compatability issues. |
| mroberds@att.net: Jan 15 04:03AM > Didn't I see somewhere that Wallmart branded DVD players are not > regionalized? The version I heard a few years ago was that the inexpensive ($40) Chinese DVD players sold at Wal-Mart would initially only play Region 1 discs, but could be "unlocked" just by entering a code on the remote. I don't think this was the deal where you can only change it 3 or 5 times before it locks forever; once you entered the code it would play any disc. The modifications for most other DVD players at that time involved burning a special CD-R with a possibly third-party firmware update, using something like a JTAG programmer to reflash the microcontroller, or unsoldering the microcontroller to either program it externally or replace it with a different one. From a user's point of view, being able to do it from the remote was a good feature. Matt Roberds |
| Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: Jan 15 12:14AM -0500 |
| "jfeng@my-deja.com" <jfeng@my-deja.com>: Jan 14 09:42PM -0800 On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 9:12:46 PM UTC-8, Michael Black wrote: > I don't know about the details, but it did seem like some of > the low end players were coveted precisely because they could > be changed in this way. The Apex AD-600A could be made region-free with a specific key sequence from the remote contgrol. The Apex AD-1500 needed a file loaded from a CD-ROM. I also got a Coby from Walgreens for about $20 that could be programmed easily with the remote. |
| N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk>: Jan 12 11:42AM Makes a change from electronics farting about. Next time I'll determine how much cloth is surplus from the stretching process before salvaging the strip off the edge, so can get more than the measly half-inch ,as about 1.5 inches wide was missing, and cutting to the edge of the diamond threads would make for a more invisible mend. Cutting back the spine of the gold T section trim helps reinsertion, with prepared hotmelt film on the rexine side of the T. Hotmelt film over the backing to take the stretched cloth, using velcro grabs. Top pic as received, flash so false colour, does not show the bagginess of the cloth, and upside down. Tektronix handles in the bottom image. Middle pic, normal light, I could not tonally match the faded with the unfaded dark brown of the salvaged strip, I tried http://diverse.4mg.com/vox_ac30_cab.jpg The VOX logo disappeared long ago also, but easily obtained from fleabuy |
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