Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Make Your Own XD-10?

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Posted by Christopher Meredith (Member # 3767) on 03-19-2007, 04:42 PM:

Are there major hardware differences between the DTS 6-D and the XD-10? Or would it be possible to take a 6-D, install a big hard drive and 4-line LCD, throw in the XD-10 software upgrade disc and it would work? Or perhaps it would be necessary to add or replace an interface board, say, for the LCD? Is the XD-10 SCSI or ATA? Is that a serial LCD display?

Thanks!

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-19-2007, 06:23 PM:

quote: Christopher Meredith
Are there major hardware differences between the DTS 6-D and the XD-10?

Yes.

quote: Christopher Meredith
Or would it be possible to take a 6-D, install a big hard drive and 4-line LCD, throw in the XD-10 software upgrade disc and it would work?

No.

quote: Christopher Meredith
Or perhaps it would be necessary to add or replace an interface board, say, for the LCD? Is the XD-10 SCSI or ATA? Is that a serial LCD display?

The DTS XD-10 has many differences from the older DTS-6D, much of which consist of very proprietary, customized IC boards that no one is just going to be able to order off NewEgg.com or anything like that. You can't really build your own DTS-6 or DTS-6D player either without having some existing DTS machines to "Frankenstein" into something that might actually work.

I'm not sure if the DVD-ROM drives and standard 40GB hard disc in the XD-10 are ATA or SCSI-based. The 152 page PDF manual doesn't seem to say (at least I couldn't find any indication).

Posted by Joel N. Weber II (Member # 3530) on 03-19-2007, 06:45 PM:

I also assume that DTS owns the copyright on the software for the XD10, and that installing their software on hardware they didn't manufacture is probably a violation of that copyright.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 03-19-2007, 09:50 PM:

The major difference is that the DTS 6 & 6D run on DOS and the XD-10 runs on Red Hat Linux.

Mark

Posted by Christopher Meredith (Member # 3767) on 03-20-2007, 11:47 AM:

I should clarify what I meant. I was referring to adding parts to a 6-D, not building a complete machine from scratch.

The 2-drive to 3-drive conversion is what got me thinking.

Posted by Chris Trainor (Member # 9) on 03-24-2007, 07:02 PM:

Been there, Tried that. Doesn't work. [Frown]

I tried adding a HDD to a 6 and 6D. While the system would come up and see the drive (and the bios's only work with tiny drives btw) you could not play any features back off it. Fooled with it for hours over the course of a few weeks... no luck. [Frown]

Was fun to play with the ancient computer hardware tho.

Now my 6 that I have just is rigged up with 3 drives and that's it. (3 internal drives, using the slimline's, quite nice.)

--CHris