[geeks] Appliance Mods

[Joshua D. Boyd]

That is unless he also owns RCE stuff, like maybe The Patriot.  Hence the
need for a real mod.  Now, in theory, someone could mod the firmware to
have a setup menu like the 600a (it wasn't regionless.  Instead there was
a backdoor to set the region), but nobody has done it yet.  I've found
specs on the video encoder and audio chip.  The video encoder is pretty
cool.  

I haven't yet found what MPEG2 chip is used, nor what CPU is used.  People
has disassembled the firmware, which to me says that there is a real CPU
somewhere.

Oh, the dvd-roms in these Apex units are plain jane IDE btw.

I wish I had another $100 to buy a second unit to hack.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Geoff Reed wrote:

> search on google for "apex rom"  all ya need is a prom burner and some 
> 27c040's and you can put regionless proms into it :)
> 
> At 11:50 AM 6/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:14:32AM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > > Refering back to the previous discussion of appliance mods, I just bought
> > > an Apex AD-500W dvd player ($98 at you local piece of hell, err Wallmart).
> > > In addition to the usual macrovision and region firmware mods, it looks
> > > like this thing would be reasonable for other mods to.  Off the top of my
> > > head, adding RGB out should be a pretty easy task.
> >
> >And where might one find such mods?  I have quite a few Hong-Kong DVDs
> >and an Apex.  No, I'm not a pirate, but some movies are damn hard to
> >find in the US.
> >
> >Reagen
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