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Hi does anyone know of a hack for the ROWA DVD-280 player? I would greatly appreciate any help on this...Darren

Once again everybody this player has to be "chipped" as do all Pioneer players ..... yes that`s right it`s a Pioneer .. not bad for £99.96

Steve
www.dvdchips.co.uk

Hmm, your local Adsa store is ripping you off Steve, they`re £99.94 here :-)

Anyway, it`s the MPEG board and laser that are Pioneer (I guess the most important parts!), but I`d swear that was a Toshiba SD-2109 front fascia!

Steve "It doesn`t always need to be chipped" M.
Mail UK

It does have to be "chipped" but not neccesarily chipped if you know what I mean ... we can reprogram it without physical chipping but I still call this "chipping"

Steve
www.dvdchips.co.uk

Yeah, good point. I suppose that it creates less confusion if you just say "it has to be chipped".....OK, I`m converted. It has to be chipped.

I think I`ll add that as a tag line :-)

Steve
Mail UK

(((((((((posted by Steve Hoyle on Friday, 24th August 2001, 17:05
Once again everybody this player has to be "chipped" as do all Pioneer players ..... yes that`s right it`s a Pioneer .. not bad for £99.96

Steve
www.dvdchips.co.uk)))))))))))))))



I drove 160 mile roung trip for this man to open my DvD player ,scratch it and to tell me that he was a learner and had never seen this PCB board. I was bad as hell!!! He works from home in the middlw of nomans land so becarefull of this man. Steve Hoyle www.dvdchips.co.uk is his web site. Go see for yourselves!!
What a waist of time and money.
The chip the Rowa 280 has is a Zoran ZR36710TQ Vaddis lll used in Toshiba DVDs
If you find the hack please can i have it??
If i posted it to him it would have cost me £55 + £17.50 for me to send it to him. He wanted me to leave it with him so he could try find a hack on the net and charge me £35 for the trouble!!!!!!

As I said I am sorry for your wasted time and money .... I offered the mod for the Rowa 280 in good faith and no-one who chips DVD`s knew that their were two (or more) variants of this player ....

I do expect their is a hack for this variant of this player but I doubt there is a hack for macrovision which was the feature you said you were especially interested in ... this is why I suggested you leave the player here and I would attempt to make a mod for it .... not so I could look on the net for a remote hack ....

I do work from home and make no secret of this fact .. this is why my prices are generally lower that others in the trade....

It`s also true that I did not recognise the board ... again the reason I suggested you leave it with me ...

With regard to a possible remote region hack I would suggest trying those for the Minato G1 and Wharfedale 750s as the onscreen menus looked similar to those players and the main board although different did have similarities to these players .....

Regards

Steve
www.dvdchips.co.uk

In addition to the above comments it seems that the Vaddis III

http://www.zoran.com/products/dvd/vaddis3.asp

that is indeed fitted inside this dvd player does not have an Embedded NTSC/PAL Encoder so there is likely to be a seperate Video Encoder chip on the PCB (possibly underneath as I didnt notice it on the top) it could well be the ADV7170 as used on older Toshiba players meaning that a Macrovision disable chip may well be possible

Steve
www.dvdchips.co.uk