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WiliQueen ([identity profile] wiliqueen.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] neadods 2004-07-06 06:51 am (UTC)

You don't have to yank any wires, or go inside the case at all, for probably the best ones anyway. Don't pay someone an extra $100 to do it.

The hack for the Sampo 611 consists of burning a single line of text in ISO format onto a CD-R and putting it in the machine.

The hack for the basic Daewoo most commonly carried at places like Target (I'm blanking on the model number; I'll check with hubby or [livejournal.com profile] amilyn later) is in a hidden menu, and consists of hitting five or six buttons on the remote.

Both of these, along with lots of others, can be found in eminently searchable form at:

http://www.videohelp.com

or in the forums at:

http://www.nerd-out.com

Either of these machines can be had for under $100. Our Sampo, after three years, has developed a tendency to overheat and start skipping. Amy and Husband have gone through one Daewoo and a second is starting to die, which recommends against using it heavily as one's primary DVD player. But they can be found on sale for $60 fairly frequently, so *shrug*.

Both machines have very respectable sound and picture quality and will play pretty much anything but dinner plates.

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