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VideoNOW PVD Reverse Engineering

Posted by simoniker on from the kiddie-player-reversioning-shenanigans dept.

Zoc_All_Alone writes "In mid-July, Hasbro released the VideoNOW, a portable media player for kids. The disks are specially encoded ~3 inch audio CDs. We have started a project to reverse engineer the format, and have made considerable progress. More information about the player can be found at the Hasbro website."

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  1. This is in honour of FPers everywhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    rejoice!

    1. Re:This is in honour of FPers everywhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Do you realize that by posting fake stories to slashdot, followed by fake discussions, you have in effect created a near-perfect simulacrum of the Slashdot you once destroyed?

      So do you love slashdot and want it back? Do you miss Slashdot but have no idea how to create a real discussion with real, actual people?

      I guess another way of putting it is, do you have any idea what the fuck you are doing?

  2. Look at the pictures: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it can even be operated by negroes.

    1. Re:Look at the pictures: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Even gay negroes like yourself?

  3. I'm thirsty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...can I please suck some warm, salty piss out of your flaccid cock?

    Thanks mate.

    -- An AC in need

    1. Re:I'm thirsty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      fo shizzle my nizzle nibble my gristle

  4. For your convenience: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Announcement: I have compiled all obligatory jokes in this post so you don't have to waste your precious time searching for them.


    In Soviet Russia, a project to reverse engineer the format has starts YOU.

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

    yes but deos it run linuks?

    How much ghey pr0n fits on one disc?

  5. TOP TEN HOBBIES OF DARTH VADER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    10) Making prank "heavy breathing" phone calls

    9) Sneaking up behind Star Destroyer crew members, covering their eyes, and demanding "Guess who?"

    8) Practicing throwing Palpatine doll down pits

    7) Genealogy

    6) Using the force to learn to juggle

    5) Mortal Kombat 5436

    4) Using mind-reading ability to win at Battleship

    3) Late nights with a pain droid

    2) Sending anonymous love-notes to Mon Mothma

    1) Checking Imperial Deli to see if they've named a sandwich after him yet

  6. 80x80 greyscale? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can watch better quality porn^H^H^H^Hvideos on my cellphone!

    Jeez.

  7. Re:Why? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why is it that when someone attempts to lock stuff they deem propritary so it won't get copied all over the place, so they can make a buck, someone has to come along to nullify it?
    Instead of spending all your time trying to ruin someone's hard work, why don't you use your time and make something that *you* can sell? Hhhhmmmmm?
    I hope you get sued and you go to jail.

    You **MUST** be a suit. Comeon, you **HAVE TO BE** a suit. Will you **ADMIT** that **YOU ARE** a suit? **ONLY A SUIT** would think that conservatively.

    But in any case, it's not really important. Even though you are a suit, it's no importance. Suits are always the first one to say no whenever someone comes with a bright idea, but whatever they say, it's of no importance, because bright ideas triumph by their own merit.

    If it were not the case, suits would still lead us (from behind, of course - what does a suit knows better than his behind???) to the mammoth chase, and the hunters would still marvel why mammoths never have to peel suits from the bottom their feet...

  8. In other news.. by 1000101 · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...there's still no cure for cancer

    man, i would love to have that much free time.

  9. SIMULACRUM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you realize that by posting fake stories to slashdot, followed by fake discussions, you have in effect created a near-perfect simulacrum of the Slashdot you once destroyed?

    So do you love slashdot and want it back? Do you miss Slashdot but have no idea how to create a real discussion with real, actual people?

    I guess another way of putting it is, do you have any idea what the fuck you are doing?