Help with DVD Hack on LIDL Targa 5100x DVD player to add HD Support..

seth

I was interest in adding HD support via USB to the Targa 5100x player.
There is a site that explain how to do this but it is in German and I'm not sure the firmware will work for UK models.

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seth wrote:

I bought a DivX/Xvid player for this reason the quality of the movie depends of course on the original source and encoder used. Having said that the recent DivX/Xvid files are superb.

I saw one bad review on VCDhelp could not make much sense of this thread. I'd appreeciate and pointers to reviews and how to make this multi region. There are box shots in ebay: The logo on the box says DivX Certified so it has an an official DivX codec for good compatibilty. It will also have an Open source XVid codec, so it should playback most files. I have several DivX/Xvid players and the ones with DivX offical support are nice as they play the more types of AVI codec.

<Off Topic on> I was after a wireless player as now I have lots of DVD rewriteables to burn watch and reuse, so the PC is STILL the bottleneck
Players like those from KISS have wireless access (via FTP) worth considering if you want to minimise time on the PC. I want one that supports WPA not just WEP for the wireless access.
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Read this "The 8900P / 5100x have a internal USB port with external two memory slot readers. The 1.385201 from LG poland doesn't support this. However 1.385201 with memory card reader support is now available if your interested" here. Would it be possible to reconnect the jumpt from the USB port to a stock one and attach an external hard drive? There are photos here and I know its been mooted bust has anyone seen a flash file to enable this? If so it would be great I could attach a large USB HD

Looks like it may have been done, but I can't read german. If someone would be kind enought to email the author I'd appreciate it.

Woby_Tide

not helping but this player is available from this Saturday(12th) in Lidl's for £19.99 according to their website