An Odd Thought About Making My Own Portable DVD Player...

[gregor7777]

I was just thinking, you know those portable VCD players that you find in the hot deals for like $50?

What would stop someone from replacing the laser mechanism in the vcd player with one from a dvd drive or even a cheap standalone DVD player off of Ebay?

The main problems I can think of would be finding a DVD laser mechanism that would fit the portable (but surely a hack job could be made) and also the power interface (although I'm sure some of you electronics wiz's could figure some kind of Ac-DC switch out)

I have some expierence with taking optical drives apart and minor repairing after the many Lite-On failures I've had (my hate for anything Lite-On is well documented) and I was thinking that this might be a cool project.

Any thoughts from the gallery?

 

[rbhawcroft]

speak to so who knows more but i dount the decoder chips are compatible its a diff standard and a vcd player shouldnt have a chip that supports dvd for cost reasons assuming that a vcd only chip is actually available andthey didnt use a multipurpose one chip the chip to find out, also the microcode that is on the onchip rom or eeproms ight prevent it, so bad luck but it would only be a 100 dollar punt either way