Looks like all they are doing is replacing the "dangerous" unit with a "safe" unit of the same model, as they ask you to remove the battery from the recall unit and reuse it in the replacement unit.
I was kinda hoping to get a fresh battery with this recall. But then this does save them a hell lot in shipping considering how heavy the batteries are. With 2.1 million unit, every ounce saved amounts to quite a bit of money.
Hopefully I get a replacement soon, power at my apartment sucks.
You can try some of the pro level DVD players. Pioneer makes an industrial DVD-player DVD-V7400 that sells for about $800-900. It's badass in all the ways that it's almost wrong to have that much control and robustness. It plays back both NTSC and PAL disks (region 1 only... blah)
Has PS/2 port so you can used keyboard/ mouse for player control.
RS-232C terminal connection for deck control. (yeah hook it up to your computer, write a control program, forget just skipping the fbi warnings. Watch movies in a totally different way.)
Video black board support, with mouse connected, so you can draw on your movies.
It has S video, YC component, coaxial Digital and Composit BNC or RCA out.
Touch screen support.
Hell, it even tracks and stores user selections!
We have a few of them at work, I've never used any player that badass before, I'm thinking about buying one soon for an video installation project, where I am hoping to write a program that will do some fun random access video playback through deck control.
But then again all that just to skip 12 seconds of FBI warning is a little bit on the over kill side, but you asked, and here's an option.
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Just checked the CS 500 under my desk and sure enough mine is one of the ones in the recall.
Here's the more detailed page with instructions to finding out if your's is one of them.
And the recall instructions I got once I registered my UPS.
Looks like all they are doing is replacing the "dangerous" unit with a "safe" unit of the same model, as they ask you to remove the battery from the recall unit and reuse it in the replacement unit.
I was kinda hoping to get a fresh battery with this recall. But then this does save them a hell lot in shipping considering how heavy the batteries are. With 2.1 million unit, every ounce saved amounts to quite a bit of money.
Hopefully I get a replacement soon, power at my apartment sucks.
You can try some of the pro level DVD players. ... blah)
Pioneer makes an industrial DVD-player DVD-V7400 that sells for about $800-900.
It's badass in all the ways that it's almost wrong to have that much control and robustness.
It plays back both NTSC and PAL disks (region 1 only
Has PS/2 port so you can used keyboard/ mouse for player control.
RS-232C terminal connection for deck control. (yeah hook it up to your computer, write a control program, forget just skipping the fbi warnings. Watch movies in a totally different way.)
Video black board support, with mouse connected, so you can draw on your movies.
It has S video, YC component, coaxial Digital and Composit BNC or RCA out.
Touch screen support.
Hell, it even tracks and stores user selections!
We have a few of them at work, I've never used any player that badass before, I'm thinking about buying one soon for an video installation project, where I am hoping to write a program that will do some fun random access video playback through deck control.
But then again all that just to skip 12 seconds of FBI warning is a little bit on the over kill side, but you asked, and here's an option.