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Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D
Reverb9 writes "When Canon introduced the Digital Rebel, the world's first entry-level Digital SLR camera, many remarked on its similarities to the 10D , its $500 more expensive big brother. In fact, the two cameras share much of the same technology and so Canon implemented a number of software-based limitations to avoid destroying sales of the professional-oriented 10D. Now, a new hack that restores a previously hidden menu along with a few additional tricks has added nearly all of those 10D features to the Rebel, with an arguably superior user interface to boot. Canon has so far said little on the hack but certainly cannot be happy with its potential effect on sales. This is, however, a reality that more corporations are having to confront. In an era where programming labour is relatively cheap and computer connectivity more frequent can artificial, marketing-driven, barriers between technology products, last?"
picture that...
just how many other devices have similar "hidden" features, just waiting to be hacked. I suspect it's a lot.
The Nissan Sentra has the same engine and frame as the more expensive 200SX, but for the life of me I can't find the software hack to change the body panels of my sentra.
But the software hack changes the plastic body to a magnesium one, then you just need to paint it black.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I have one of those Motorola digital cable boxes. One afternoon my one-year-old nephew was crawling around and put his hand down on the remote. He apparently pushed just the right combination of buttons to access some sort of set-up menu. There was all sorts of settings that were obviously above my head, thus I was too chicken to make any changes for fear of really screwing up something, or worse. So I cancelled out of it and have yet to find out how to access it again. Makes me wonder what sort of stuff I could have tapped into had I known more about what I was doing.
Consumers are getting the shaft any time they buy these crippled products. They shouldn't HAVE to hack something to unlock built-in features.
Exactly. I had to "hack" the crippled Windows Server 2003 to accept multiple connections by telling it I had 1000 licenses in the License Manager. The product is exactly the same, but with this one little tweak I got just as much functionality as I would have with the much higher priced, 1000-CAL product.
Shouldn't I be able to buy one, non-crippled version without jumping through these hoops? It's unconsionable.
TW