Arfa Daily wrote:
Many of the ones that I've worked on, particularly the Chinese no-brand
supermarket specials, appear to have in them an absolutely bog-standard IDE
interface DVD drive

Information at http://www.area450.com is fairly interesting (but now
dated) about the IDE interface in DVD players/recorders OEM'd by Sampo.
Some player owners have even hacked hard drives, compact flash and
network interfaces into their equipment!

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Adrian C