Dvd player drive

[David Sewell]

Please, is it possible to just take a dvd drive from a pc and fit it to a
standalone player as a replacement for playing dvd as I notice the power and
signal connectors are the same. Or, is it more involved than it appears?
Can any snags easily be overcome?
Thanks to your replies.
David

 

[Sunny]

Please, is it possible to just take a dvd drive from a pc and fit it to a
standalone player as a replacement for playing dvd as I notice the power and
signal connectors are the same. Or, is it more involved than it appears?
Can any snags easily be overcome?
Thanks to your replies.
David

It's certainly possible in some cases, depending on the player and drive
models. You might start here:

http://www.bob-lafleur.net/600advd/

 

[tim.phipps]

Please, is it possible to just take a dvd drive from a pc and fit it to a
standalone player as a replacement for playing dvd as I notice the power and
signal connectors are the same. Or, is it more involved than it appears?
Can any snags easily be overcome?
Thanks to your replies.
David

Yes it should work just fine. In fact I tried it with a friend's Philips
DVD player last night. It had stopped reading any discs and was no better
after cleaning. I took the DVD drive out of his PC and connected it to the
Philips unit ( sorry don't remember the model no.). I set the jumper on the
drive to Master. It worked ok so I have ordered another DVD drive and will
fit this inside the Philips casing once I have figured out a way to mount it
properly.

Regards,
Tim

 

[James Sweet]

Please, is it possible to just take a dvd drive from a pc and fit it to a
standalone player as a replacement for playing dvd as I notice the power and
signal connectors are the same. Or, is it more involved than it appears?
Can any snags easily be overcome?
Thanks to your replies.
David

For some players this works, for others it won't, it's worth trying.

 

[Chaos Master]

David Sewell said those words of wisdom from the arcane mages in
sci.electronics.repair:

Please, is it possible to just take a dvd drive from a pc and fit it to a
standalone player as a replacement for playing dvd as I notice the power and
signal connectors are the same. Or, is it more involved than it appears?
Can any snags easily be overcome?
Thanks to your replies.
David

In some players, the DVD reader is a computer DVD drive, so it's worth trying.

 

[David Sewell]

Thanks,
It is a Dansai dvd-1010 and displays a Tesco helpline telephone number on
the tv screen. The fault is it will not recognise any discs placed in the
drive.
I will try a pc dvd drive as soon as possible.
Thanks again,
David

 

[JURB6006]

It's certainly possible in some cases, depending on the player and drive

models. You might start here:

http://www.bob-lafleur.net/600advd/

SUNNY !, you don't know me but thanx for that link. Watch for a post about DVD
copying in the near future, I think you'll find it interesting.

My observation:

The info on that website implies that I could get an Apex DVD, connect the
drive from it to my PC and then be able to copy DVDs. Of course now I hear
there are bigger DVDs that don't fit the 4.7GB blanks. I guess these would have
to be ripped or stripped or something.

I swear to The Creator Of All Things that my intent is good. My buddy has DVDs
his kids keep on watching, and being kids they don't observe perfect handling
procedures if ya know what I mean. He would love to burn it and put the
original away, and it would be fine if you couldn't copy the copy. He only
needs one, and if they screw it up he can burn another, if they screw the
original up that's it.

Of course if he's in the bedroom and runs the original while the kids are
watching it in the livingroom I guess they'll have to send the MPAA SWAT team
out.. (the FCC has one y'know)

JURB