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I've sick of it all !!
I have a Kenwood DV-605, Digix "$50 dollor unit from american" panasonic A110 and of these units the digix is the only one that will play the dvd-r's that I do backups with. I have been trying to figure out what matters most quality or quanity. and I am more interested in quantity as all my backups play fine in a dvd-rom. so with that in mind. I have come to the conclusion that all setop players suck!
What I want to know is that if anyone knows of a way to replace the lazer unit in a setop player? I love my kenwood dv-605 as I have a kenwood KRX-1000 THX Certified Receiver and a Kenwood 100 disk cd changer. But I can't get the backups to work flawlessly in anything but the digix player. now why would a 50.00 setop player play these disks "cheap,expensive, namebrand non-namebrand doesn't matter" without a hitch. while the more expensive setop players "kenwood, panasonic" will not play them, either audio corruption and or video corruption. when just watching the movie or skipping chapters or ff through the movie.
I would like to swap the lazer unit out of a liteon dvd-rom or some other dvd-rom pc drive into my kenwood but I do not think that is an option at this point in time. As I have not been able to find anything on this subject. I have taken apart my panasonic and also taken apart a toshiba dvd-rom drive so see if they had similar ribbon cables and hookups. They did but I figured that firmware on the mpeg card in the set top player would not allow this to work properly.
And also I need a new TV. and I've been looking at the Samsung 30" 16x9 hd monitor. but without something that can do progressive scan it isn't worth the money as I can get an akai 30" 16x9 at samsclub that will not to hd but will do 480i for alot less. and then take the money that I have saved from not buying the samsung and building a pc in a matx chasis, "p4/ddr/dvd-rom/windows xp media center edition, getting a remote for it " and using that as a replacement for a high dollar dvd player, with a ati 9500 non pro and dvdi-comonent out I will still get 1080i, that is the dillema.
If anyone knows of a way to put a different lazer unit in a set top dvd player please let me know as this is what I would rather do but if I can't do this I will just have to build a micro pc that will do what I need, cost is an issue but compatability is more of an issue.
Sorry for the ranting. I've just been doing so many backups and I am fed up with finding the time to watch them, and then they either lock up or something like corruption in video or audio occurs. and all ppl say is "switch your media" or something else lame like that. when it isn't a media issue. nor is it a burning application issue. or how I use the burning application to create a backup. it is the issue that the lazer units that are in setop players are like 4x lazers and the amount of memory that is on the mpg decoder board in the setop player is to small. all of wich can be fixed but if the firmware doesn't like the upgraded lazer module then it isn't going to work, and it seems as though manufactuers aren't making a big deal about upgrading their hardware as they know that if they do then they would have to charge more than what they are currently overcharging. there is no way that a setop dvd player costs 300+ dallors and will not play a dvd-r backup that was burn on a no name media at 4x speeds. It's the hardwares fault not the media or applications fault.
So I would have to say if your going to buy a dvd player check out the cheapest pos that you can find, more than likely it will be the best unit you can buy if your doing backups. you will loose progressive scan support but so what ? 1080i max ? a normal dvd is 480i and look great when the dvd player and tv are using component lines. 1080i I've seen terminator 2 at that res on a panasonic hd monitor and well first off. it had to be played from a pc not a setop player. second off it did look good but not good enough to validate the cost of the setup "hd tv/pc/media" so with that in mind, cheap 16x9 tv and cheap dvd-r media is the way to go quantity or quality. as of right now everything is a gimic, trying to get you to buy things that you don't need. like hd monitors that do 1080i where is the setop player that can output that ? where is the media that is encoded in that ? where is everything. it's all a scam, don't fall victom to the marketing machine !!!!!
sorry, damn. I just want to mod my set top dvd player if anyone has any info please let me know.
thanks and sorry for the rambling. but if you have read through it it does make sense. if you think it doesn't make sense then you haven't spent enought money in sound&vision area to understand it. or your to young. I've been in this stuff since the beta age. and back then super beta was god. and macrovision was a mith :>
Moding a setop dvd player is the mission!
let me know how you would go about accomplishing this feat.
thx.
I have a Kenwood DV-605, Digix "$50 dollor unit from american" panasonic A110 and of these units the digix is the only one that will play the dvd-r's that I do backups with. I have been trying to figure out what matters most quality or quanity. and I am more interested in quantity as all my backups play fine in a dvd-rom. so with that in mind. I have come to the conclusion that all setop players suck!
What I want to know is that if anyone knows of a way to replace the lazer unit in a setop player? I love my kenwood dv-605 as I have a kenwood KRX-1000 THX Certified Receiver and a Kenwood 100 disk cd changer. But I can't get the backups to work flawlessly in anything but the digix player. now why would a 50.00 setop player play these disks "cheap,expensive, namebrand non-namebrand doesn't matter" without a hitch. while the more expensive setop players "kenwood, panasonic" will not play them, either audio corruption and or video corruption. when just watching the movie or skipping chapters or ff through the movie.
I would like to swap the lazer unit out of a liteon dvd-rom or some other dvd-rom pc drive into my kenwood but I do not think that is an option at this point in time. As I have not been able to find anything on this subject. I have taken apart my panasonic and also taken apart a toshiba dvd-rom drive so see if they had similar ribbon cables and hookups. They did but I figured that firmware on the mpeg card in the set top player would not allow this to work properly.
And also I need a new TV. and I've been looking at the Samsung 30" 16x9 hd monitor. but without something that can do progressive scan it isn't worth the money as I can get an akai 30" 16x9 at samsclub that will not to hd but will do 480i for alot less. and then take the money that I have saved from not buying the samsung and building a pc in a matx chasis, "p4/ddr/dvd-rom/windows xp media center edition, getting a remote for it " and using that as a replacement for a high dollar dvd player, with a ati 9500 non pro and dvdi-comonent out I will still get 1080i, that is the dillema.
If anyone knows of a way to put a different lazer unit in a set top dvd player please let me know as this is what I would rather do but if I can't do this I will just have to build a micro pc that will do what I need, cost is an issue but compatability is more of an issue.
Sorry for the ranting. I've just been doing so many backups and I am fed up with finding the time to watch them, and then they either lock up or something like corruption in video or audio occurs. and all ppl say is "switch your media" or something else lame like that. when it isn't a media issue. nor is it a burning application issue. or how I use the burning application to create a backup. it is the issue that the lazer units that are in setop players are like 4x lazers and the amount of memory that is on the mpg decoder board in the setop player is to small. all of wich can be fixed but if the firmware doesn't like the upgraded lazer module then it isn't going to work, and it seems as though manufactuers aren't making a big deal about upgrading their hardware as they know that if they do then they would have to charge more than what they are currently overcharging. there is no way that a setop dvd player costs 300+ dallors and will not play a dvd-r backup that was burn on a no name media at 4x speeds. It's the hardwares fault not the media or applications fault.
So I would have to say if your going to buy a dvd player check out the cheapest pos that you can find, more than likely it will be the best unit you can buy if your doing backups. you will loose progressive scan support but so what ? 1080i max ? a normal dvd is 480i and look great when the dvd player and tv are using component lines. 1080i I've seen terminator 2 at that res on a panasonic hd monitor and well first off. it had to be played from a pc not a setop player. second off it did look good but not good enough to validate the cost of the setup "hd tv/pc/media" so with that in mind, cheap 16x9 tv and cheap dvd-r media is the way to go quantity or quality. as of right now everything is a gimic, trying to get you to buy things that you don't need. like hd monitors that do 1080i where is the setop player that can output that ? where is the media that is encoded in that ? where is everything. it's all a scam, don't fall victom to the marketing machine !!!!!
sorry, damn. I just want to mod my set top dvd player if anyone has any info please let me know.
thanks and sorry for the rambling. but if you have read through it it does make sense. if you think it doesn't make sense then you haven't spent enought money in sound&vision area to understand it. or your to young. I've been in this stuff since the beta age. and back then super beta was god. and macrovision was a mith :>
Moding a setop dvd player is the mission!
let me know how you would go about accomplishing this feat.
thx.
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