[geeks] Appliance Mods

[Ken Hansen]

Slashdot had a few write-ups on that unit, that would be a good place to start...

The hacks were more like "hold down these three buttons on power up" IIRC.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: ward at zilla.nu [mailto:ward at zilla.nu]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:50 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Appliance Mods


On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:14:32AM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Refering back to the previous discussion of appliance mods, I just bought
> an Apex AD-500W dvd player ($98 at you local piece of hell, err Wallmart).
> In addition to the usual macrovision and region firmware mods, it looks
> like this thing would be reasonable for other mods to.  Off the top of my
> head, adding RGB out should be a pretty easy task.

And where might one find such mods?  I have quite a few Hong-Kong DVDs
and an Apex.  No, I'm not a pirate, but some movies are damn hard to
find in the US.

Reagen
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