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Adding a Hard Drive... To Your DVD Player?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-hell-not dept.

El Puerco Loco writes "Area 450 has several guides to adding hardware to the Sampo DVE631CF DVD player. Even if you don't own this model, the firmware for it has been ported to many, many other models (with annoyances like macrovision and region locking removed). This player had built in support for an IDE device (a flash card reader) so a standard IDE drive can be slaved to the dvd drive and the player can read from a FAT32 formatted disk. The player decodes mp3s and VCD files, so it's possible to turn it into a cheap mp3 jukebox, or store movies in vcd format. I hope that when DiVX support becomes more common in DVD players one of them will be able to support a hack like this. It would be really cool to have 100+ movies built in to my dvd player."

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  1. Annoyances? by OpenSourced · · Score: 5, Funny
    (with annoyances like macrovision and region locking removed)


    Annoyances? I thought they were bugs.

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    1. Re:Annoyances? by Dizzo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Annoyances? I thought they were bugs.

      Bugs? I thought they were features.

    2. Re:Annoyances? by PunchMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bugs? I thought they were features.

      Features? I thought they were annoyances.

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  2. I can see it now... by swordboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Columbia House will be selling these things with a hundred movies pre-installed for a penny. All that one needs to do is buy another six over the course of three years (*).

    (*) Movie-of-the-month will automatically be downloaded unless you send back this reader service card indicating that you do not want to receive it. Tax, shipping and handling extra.

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    1. Re:I can see it now... by British · · Score: 3, Funny

      People use thier phones for accessing their media collection. Sure that's a good idea? "Welcome to movie-on-demand phone! Make your selection at any time!" "Press 1 for...Saving Private Ryan" "Press 2 for..JDG'z DIVX rip of The Ring" "Press 3 for..Triple X" .... "Press 4932 for The Santa Clause 2" "To hear these options again, press #" Eh, I'd prefer an on-screen menu.

  3. Oh my god... by MagicFab · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...another way to get 4096 free AOL hours!

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  4. Re:DVD player, Hard Drive and Network capabilities by leeet · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just bought one. It's awesome... I heard it's called a "PC"

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