{"id":3215,"date":"2007-07-28T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T22:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/almost-as-good-as-keyboard-missing-press-f1\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T20:48:20","slug":"almost-as-good-as-keyboard-missing-press-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/almost-as-good-as-keyboard-missing-press-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost as good as &#8220;Keyboard Missing: Press F1&#8221; &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rjtech.net\/\">RJ Tech<\/a> DVD player today because it has VGA output, and we have a spare 19&#8243; monitor. It seems that you need a composite  video display to be able to use the on-screen menu to select VGA Out on this unit. This is <em>teh smrt<\/em> programming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Yup, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rjtech.net\/desc_RJ-800DVX.htm\">RJ Tech RJ-800DVX<\/a> does need to  have the VGA output enabled from a composite video source. This is very strange, as the composite does seem to work with the VGA enabled, so why not enable both out the box? I&#8217;m glad I still had my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plextor.com\/english\/products\/TV402U.htm\">Plextor TV tuner<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/31\/the-moving-image\/\">my abortive attempts to run a PVR<\/a>. I hooked it up to the PC and DVD player, fiddled with it until I got an image, then selected VGA video output. It works beautifully now, playing every region of DVD, MP3 CD, and downloaded MPEG I can throw at it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update #2<\/strong>: Just got this e-mail from RJ Tech:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>N\/P won&#8217;t solve the problem.<br \/>\nYou need to press V-mode to change the dvdplayer setting to VGA mode.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I did this and it didn&#8217;t work, but props to RJ Tech for answering in one business day for a $50 player.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update #3 &#8211; 12 August<\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m now on my third RJ-800DVX. The first one fell over last night, with no disk being recognized and a nasty screeching sound as it tried to seek. The one I got in return from <a href=\"http:\/\/canadacomputers.com\/\">Canada Computers<\/a> was DOA with the same problem. The new unit is quite different &#8211; it has a much cheaper looking remote, and now has a SCART socket as well as VGA on the back. This one works, for now at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought an RJ Tech DVD player today because it has VGA output, and we have a spare 19&#8243; monitor. It seems that you need a composite video display to be able to use the on-screen menu to select VGA Out on this unit. This is teh smrt programming. Update: Yup, the RJ Tech RJ-800DVX does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[699,710,62,701,698,560,700],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-dvd_player","tag-plextor","tag-rant","tag-rj-800dvx","tag-rj_tech","tag-teh-smrt","tag-vga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-PR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}