RE: OT: DVD PLAYERS

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

True - a bit of a "sledgehammer t  crack a nut" solution but I
agree this
should work too.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 July 2001 17:11
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: DVD PLAYERS
>
>
> Hi Eamon
>
> Obviously I will recommend KAT5 :-))
>
> But there is another way if you are happy with an RF signal.
>
> Find an old ANALOGUE satellite receiver t  use as the modulator
instead of
> your VCR. Plug it into either a decoder or VCR SCART on the
> SatReceiver and
> away you go. DVD in all rooms. If you later decide you want the best
> possible quality then you can always go for KAT5.
>
> Keith
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eamon O'Gorman [mailto:eamonogorman@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 22 July 2001 17:17
> > To: UKHA
> > Subject: [ukha_d] OT: DVD PLAYERS
> >
> >
> >
> >    Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but hopefully someone can
> > help me with
> > a problem I am having with a new DVD player.
> >
> >      My set up at home is, I have a Kustom multiroom system with
all the
> > hardware, cd player tuner etc located in my central hub (or
> node zero ) in
> > the utility room. Along with this I have my video player, cable
> > box, my new
> > dvd, and all my coax distributed to all roooms in the house. The
Kustom
> > keypads also behave as an IR repeater system, so in effect I can
> > operate any
> > of these devices from anywhere in the house, and watch tv,
> video and dvd's
> > anywhere, with audio piped through ceiling mounted speakers in
> > any room. My
> > kustom has 6 sources and six zones, and everything works like a
> > dream...almost.
> >
> >   When building the house with all of the above in mind, I
> reckoned I had
> > pretty much everyhing covered as far as audio and tv were
> > concerned. What I
> > did not realise is that DVD players do not come with a rf coax
output,
> > making it very difficult to centrally locate the dvd, and to
> distribute it
> > around the house (now I think I understand what all the
excitement about
> > KAT5 is about.....). The dvd retailer said that I could feed
> the dvd scart
> > into my video player, and then watch the dvd via the video
> > channel anywhere
> > in the house. This sounded good enough to me (I know the quality
of the
> > picture is not supposed to be as good, but I cant honestly tell
the
> > difference).
> >
> >    Anyway , to get t  the point, it seems that some DVD discs
have a
> > copywrite protection which will not allow them to be played
> > through a video
> > recorder as this would allow you to copy the DVD.... Last night I
> > hired out
> > my first two DVD's (Lost souls and Meet the parents). The first
> > one worked a
> > dream, but the second DVD kept changing the contrast/brightness
of the
> > screen every couple of seconds. Watchable, but very annoying..
> Now here's
> > the question.... Does anyone know of a fix for this ? Is there
> some way of
> > "fooling" the dvd player into thinking the scart is
connected
> > directly to a
> > tv, instead of via a video recorder ? Maybe the scart pinouts on
> > a video are
> > different, but I could change them to "fool" the dvd.
Or is
> there perhaps
> > another method of getting the scart output onto a coax. I need to
> > do this as
> > cheaply as possible, cos the savings have already been severely
dented
> > paying for the present set up to date.
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eamon
> >
> >
> >
> >
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