RE: Plasma display questions

[James Hoye <jhoye@xxxxxxx>]

> > There's a mod that allows the pure digital signal from the=20
> player to be
> > pumped out to a suitably equipped plasma screen.  This=20
> apparently gives
> > broadcast quality image.
> >
> Now this sounds VERY interesting. Do you know where I can=20
> find out more? Is
> this mod just for the A350 or for lots of players? I will be=20
> changing my DVD
> player soon so I can get the full bandwidth on the digital=20
> audio out - I'm
> not really taking advantage of the resolution my Meridian 561=20
> has to offer.

See the following message taken from the DVDUK archive at onelist.com
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> Something interesting to drool over on a friday afternoon...

> An article at New Scientist
> (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224031.html)
claims that an
> engineer has designed a custom chip which he can fit to a DVD player
> that will provide a digital video output.

> I didn't know this but apparently many projectors and plasma screens
> have Serial Digital Interface inputs which can be fed directly by this
> guy's modified players resulting in broadcast quality images.

> Doesn't say how much he's charging for the mod or give any links and a
> quick search drew a blank. Anybody know anything more about this?

YES!!!! I saw one of these modded players in action to a 55" plasma
screen
and it looked FAN-F**KING-TASTIC. As Andy just said, it was at the DVD
Europe conference, and the DVD it was playing was one he'd knocked up
himself on his DVDR. It did look GREAT though.

Only very high end equipment has the SDI inputs though, as it is largely
a broadcast end standard, not a user end. However he said he was in talks
with Pioneer to get it to work with their plasma flatscreens (which
connected
to a normal DVD player and sat next to this thing looked AWFUL).

Selling a modded pioneer 626 for =A31500. Check out www.function.uk.com,
don't know if there's anything there but that's the domain of the
company selling the modded players.

I've got the email address of the bloke aswell, if anyone wants it drop me
an email direct.

Oh, one other thing, the studios took him to court claiming that he was
circumventing copyright and he won.

Mark
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James (H)

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