On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:00:48PM +, Natalie S. Ford said:
i am sure that muttley can explain further, but a scart cable upgrade
should sort you out, dave.
unlurk from down under
As mentioned ad nauseaum ever since the release of the lifestyle
accesory masquerading as a console /troll
Simon Wistow said:
Quick question - recently, whilst trying to watch a DVD on a laptop (a
lateish model Vaio) on the TV via composite out (little yellow headphone
jack sized female socket?) we'd get a sharp picture of the desktop but a
black rectangle where the DVD was playing. This was in
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jody Belka wrote:
Simon Wistow said:
Quick question - recently, whilst trying to watch a DVD on a laptop (a
lateish model Vaio) on the TV via composite out (little yellow headphone
jack sized female socket?) we'd get a sharp picture of the desktop but a
black
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 23:50, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:00:48PM +, Natalie S. Ford wrote:
um, i think it is the scart cable supplied with the ps2, not the drive -
it is the same drive in the ps2 as is installed in many laptops.
i am sure that muttley can
On Thursday 09 January 2003 11:18, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:17:56AM +, robin szemeti wrote:
( I havent looked in years, but I assume the hi-fi (HA!) mags sell such
nonsense still?)
http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/tweaks/cablelifts.html
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:38:28AM +, Marna Gilligan wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Dave Cross wrote:
So it seems that the problem is not with the DVDs I buy, but with my
PS2's ability to play slightly sub-standard discs.
We use the PS2 as a games thingumie and MP3 server/ new Buffums
- Original Message -
From: Marna Gilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 January 2003 00:38
Subject: Re: [OT] Playstation2 as DVD Player
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Dave Cross wrote:
So it seems that the problem is not with the DVDs I buy, but with my
PS2's ability to play
From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1/8/03 9:18:40 AM
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:38:28AM +, Marna Gilligan wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Dave Cross wrote:
So it seems that the problem is not with the DVDs I
buy, but with my PS2's ability to play slightly
sub-standard discs.
* at 07/01 20:48 + Dave Cross said:
So it seems that the problem is not with the DVDs I buy, but with my
PS2's ability to play slightly sub-standard discs.
Has anyone heard this about PS2s? Is it a known fault? Is there a way
to fix it?
$flatmates PS2 and the one that Sony replaced it
Both PS2 and PC-based DVD playback crop up regularly in problem emails sent
to my company (we rent DVDs) normal DVD players almost never (except
regarding region encoding).
My advice is to get a dedicated player.
glyn
So it seems that the problem is not with the DVDs I buy, but with my
PS2's
-Original Message-
From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
That being the case, please feel free to recommend cheap DVD players to me.
This is probably asking for trouble on a unixey list, and especially to a
PS2 owner, but you might like to consider an XBox. You can get them new
I was bought a PS2 for christmas and have had no problems so far
with any DVD's.
Also I watched Minority Report at the weekend and had no troubles
, so I think it might just be the age of your console and the
firmware with it.
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:19:40PM -, Stuart Honeysett wrote:
Also I watched Minority Report at the weekend and had no troubles
, so I think it might just be the age of your console and the
firmware with it.
The strangest thing in this thread is that anyone, having watched it,
would
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:51:02PM +, robin szemeti wrote:
goodness ... so it looks like the DVD drive fitted to your multi-thousand
pound laptop is of better quality than the one in the mass-market, cost cut
to the bone, 200 quid PS2 how very odd :)
um, i think it is the scart
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:00:48PM +, Natalie S. Ford wrote:
um, i think it is the scart cable supplied with the ps2, not the drive -
it is the same drive in the ps2 as is installed in many laptops.
i am sure that muttley can explain further, but a scart cable upgrade
should sort you out,
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Dave Cross wrote:
That being the case, please feel free to recommend cheap DVD players to
me.
Scan(.co.uk)s standard 100-ish quid model always seems to be well loved,
all of the geeky hackery options that you may not get on other cheap dvd
players (audio and video output
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 20:48, Dave Cross wrote:
I
tried the disc in the DVD drive in my laptop. And it worked perfectly.
I then tried a couple of other discs that I've had trouble with and they
worked perfectly too.
goodness ... so it looks like the DVD drive fitted to your multi-thousand
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, robin szemeti wrote:
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 20:48, Dave Cross wrote:
I
tried the disc in the DVD drive in my laptop. And it worked perfectly.
I then tried a couple of other discs that I've had trouble with and they
worked perfectly too.
goodness ... so it looks
goodness ... so it looks like the DVD drive fitted to your multi-thousand
pound laptop is of better quality than the one in the mass-market, cost cut
to the bone, 200 quid PS2 how very odd :)
I don't know to what extent Sony has ever marketed their PS/2 as being a
suitable DVD player, but
Dave Cross said:
That being the case, please feel free to recommend cheap DVD players to me.
well, if i was to buy low-end at the moment, i'd probably go for the mico
clasica 20, available in sainsbury's. as an alternative, i might consider
the cyber home AD-L528. wouldn't get the AD-M212,
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