[slinkelist] New DVD 300 disc players...

[Shawn Boyle]

I think there are actually two ports on the back of the DVD player -- one
Control-S one Control-A1.

The real benefit of having a fully functional Control-A1 II port wouldn't be
so much DVD identification but rather commands and status. You'd be able to
issue a command to play a specific slot, or queue up a disc to a specific
time stamp. And the player would be able to report exactly what it's doing
("loading slot X" "playing disc" "Slot X is (not) occupied"...).

The more I think about it, the more I can't figure out why Sony wouldn't add
this feature. It's like those VisionTouch receivers.

-Shawn

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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 6:49 PM
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Subject: RE: [slinkelist] New DVD 300 disc players...


Hi,

As I understand, the port on the back of the DVD changer is Input only,
and as you can see on the picture on Crutchfield, It's a Control S port.
As Colby say, It's mostly a wired remote input (copy of the IR).

For audio (CD changer) Sony user Control-A? and for video, Control S
(cf : http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/s-link/faq.html)

I not used to, but I think that I can find some excuse for Sony not using
Control AII :

It's Easy with CD : 99% of CD are based on the same structure : N track of
music !
0,9% have CDText and only 0,1 % have special structure, like CD Extra,...
( the % are not official, juste an approximation)

But with DVD, it's really more difficult. There's no Standard structure yet.
Which informations the players will send ?
A new standard must be created to describe the content of a disc.
With the internal menu of each disc, it will be really more difficult to
make a "DVDDB" database...
and there's also 2 sided disc...

Anyway, you can use Slink-e and CDJ (with the Control S port) to send
command to the DVD players

At 16:13 28/11/00 Tuesday -0500, Shawn Boyle wrote:
>The problem as I understand it with the Control-A1 II port on the back of
>the DVD changer is that it's only there to send commands to a CD changer.
It
>doesn't report any information about what it's doing or the DVD that it is
>currently playing. Nor will it accept command over the A1 II bus like the
CD
>changers do.
>
>Like one of the other users who posted on the BBS I own all Sony
components.
>I'd buy one of the DVD changers tomorrow but I'm beginning to look at other
>changers with RS-232...not perfect, but better than nothing.
>
>-Shawn




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