Audiosonic DV-3300FA (DVD player)

[tazwegion]

I was given a disfunctional DVD player recently, the previous owner had been curious and had opened it up pulling bits out here & there... it's PSU board caught my eye and I thought I'd share, the dubious brand capacitors were marked KYS vent (and that's exactly what they were doing)

I suppose the case could be used for some electronics kit... I dunno'

[japlytic]

Re: Audiosonic DV-3300FA (DVD player)

I examined this model as well and had the KYS capacitors as you described (The front flap was missing, so I scrapped the whole player)

[tazwegion]

Re: Audiosonic DV-3300FA (DVD player)

Yeah, it defintely wasn't worthy of any time to fix it, though this one does have the DVD drive facia... may end up as a housing for a low powered hardware firewall or similar

[shadow]

Re: Audiosonic DV-3300FA (DVD player)

Yeah, it defintely wasn't worthy of any time to fix it, though this one does have the DVD drive facia... may end up as a housing for a low powered hardware firewall or similar

That would be pretty cool if it does happen!

I am not sure if this is an economical at all, but wouldn't it be cool to have a small low powered media centre PC in there. Somehow fitting in one of those small VIA based nano-ITX or micro-ATX motherboards inside and actually making use of that DVD Drive facia to play DVD's and/or other stuff.

I guess it would be cool but also a fairly expensive project.

[tazwegion]

Re: Audiosonic DV-3300FA (DVD player)

No not too expensive though ITX form factor gear is not cheap, think epoxy glue back of fascia & front (tray) of PC DVD player, IIRC there was a VHS based media centre floating around somewhere on the net

The real difficulty if locating something that will fit the lower profile DVD enclosures, mobo/CPU + Heatsink kinda' starts getting quite tall

* looks over @ old VHS player *

[gdement]

Re: Audiosonic DV-3300FA (DVD player)

Interesting idea. Some older DVD players are taller and much bigger all around. They might work better. You could probably put a common MicroATX board in many of them, but not too high profile. Same would also be true of early CD players. But a CD player won't have all the outputs you'd want on the back, so that would be less convenient to convert.

I have an early 5-disc DVD player which is huge, but I'm not sure what I'd do with the carousel. A single disc player would be more convertible to a PC.

[PedroDaGr8]

Re: Audiosonic DV-3300FA (DVD player)

Split the carousel cover into stealth drive covers. Should not be too difficult.