[geeks] Appliance Mods

[Joshua D. Boyd]

No, you are thinking of the original 600a.  That had a backdoor that was
quickly closed.  Newer models require a firmware update that isn't quite
as nice (because you have to either settle for only two regions, or resort
to really complicated keypatterns to get past RCE).

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> 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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