old divx players

[bedell4]

Remember long time ago when Circuit City exclusively carried the RCA DVD/DIVX players. These players big sell was you could purchase a disk that costed about 3.00 and it acted like a rental. Once you pressed play, it would only be active for that day. When you were through with the movie, you just throw the disk away. When DIVX went out of business, all the disks were sold for about 50 cents. I bought a bunch of them.
So my question is..... Is there a hack to tell my RCA DVD player to play these DIVX disks or can I do something to my current Phillips 724 DVD player so they will recognize these DIVX disks?

Thank you for any responses.

[adam]

No. If your dvd player doesnt support divx then there is no way to get the disks to play.

[wulf109]

Could they be ripped on a computer?

[Chris X]

In order to get them to work I think your DVD player would need a phone line jack. I'm shore if one has source code to the firmware of the DVD player, which is virtually impossible to get, then I am shore that it is possible that the player could be hacked. However, like I said you would have to know the architecture and blueprint design of the DVD player and its software, and I don't think the manufacturer is going to give that info out

[adam]

They cannot be played or ripped on a computer either. It would be a heck of a lot of trouble to hack your dvd player just to watch the moive once or twice. Once your viewing time is up there is no way to renew it because divx is defunct.

I think divx was the only digital media that was never hacked. My suggestion is to just throw out those disks or give them to someone who just happens to have an old divx player.