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How to Get Your Hacked Obsolete Object on Gizmodo

Chase Sechrist and Dan Weatherford went to work on Toshiba's HD-A1 HD-DVD player and, while it's pretty much only good as a doorstop now, at least it says something nice. [Doom9's Forum—thanks Mazyar!]

1:00 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Addy Dugdale
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MikeSWelch at 01:08 PM on 03/28/08
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Heeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy
Jimbuck at 01:16 PM on 03/28/08
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Woah! Do HD-DVD's exist father?

"No son. They are only a figment of our imagination at this point. Come along now, let's go watch some blu-ray's my child..."
Munch at 01:23 PM on 03/28/08
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Monty at 01:32 PM on 03/28/08
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When HD DVD talked about the amazing blue light technology, I am pretty sure this is not what they meant.
dman0586 at 01:37 PM on 03/28/08
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I always wondered how to do this to my electronics. If i could get my radio in my car to say crap it would be sweet!
flyboy at 04:11 PM on 03/28/08
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@dman0586: it's your fairy godmother

switch on in the commercial US of A and your wish will be granted ....
s00pcan at 06:35 PM on 03/28/08
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sup chase!
sechrist at 06:41 PM on 03/28/08
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If anybody is interested, the forum link that's cited in the article explains more about the Linux operating system it's running. Requires a little bit of linux-hackery to do it though.
logruszed at 06:50 PM on 03/28/08
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Not really a hw hack, but I used to have a programmable LED faced deck that I could program a dozen messages into. I would put vulgar suggestions on it, but since I have no friends nobody ever got to enjoy them but me.

:(

and the transvestite whores I picked up and murdered.
everynameistaken at 06:59 PM on 03/28/08
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Woah! It has a 2.5 GHz P4 with 1GB of ram. Also an RJ45 port(100mbit ethernet) and runs linux!

Not too shabby for around $60 on eBay.