Im looking for a top loaded dvd rom for my HTPC im building. Top load as in a lid opens up and you snap the cd in ( like reqular portable cd players ). Anyone ever seen them? I know they have to make them because I once saw a cd drive for a laptop like this. Pleas post links if you know of any!
You could use a laptop drive I guess that allow you to snap the CD in. although admitidly still on a tray. some external CD-ROM/CD-RW drives have a flip up lid mainly the lite-on drives that I have seen. you could get a USB one and mod it. Maybe replace the lid or something (but that would void the warranty) Let us know how you get on
Not sure if you've read the Iris thread, but we've been talking a but about CD drives, and in paricular a Laptop drive, you can easily get adapters for normal IDE calbes, and you could easily hack off the lid of the drive, or jam open the tray.
I think I found exactly what you need, below is pictured Sony's new portable CD-R/RW/DVD/MP3 Player that can burn and read CD-R/RW's at a rate of 24x/10x/24x and read DVD's at a speed of 8x it has a 8mb buffer and a usb interface and for more fun it can also read memory sticks. It only carries a price tag of $279.99 . . . If you need more info go: HERE
Yeah I saw the sony one in the paper the other day. I just dont want to spend 300 on something that im going to "mod", ie tear apart . What I want to do is sort of make this computer in the shape of a game cube with a lid that flips up on the top to reveal the dvd rom. Ive thought of using regular dvd-roms and just mod take the top off but I ran into the problem of what to do with the autorun tray switches. <---The switch that stops the tray from moving out and the one that stops it when its all the way inside the drive. I was thinking maybe I could make the lid flip these switches. I abandoned this way because I thought it would be easier to shape an already made top load dvd for my needs rather than make one. Anyone have any better ideas or suggestions? By the way I just read the iris thread and the idea of the iris opening to reveal the dvd sound really sweet! Just again, what do you do with the tray/autorun switches?
