Our second visit and attempt with Mend It Mark to repair this prototype Car Radio. The only one with Minidisc and DCC combined. The full video that Mark created: • The Mini Disc & DCC Pl...
Well, maybe. But it will still definitely reduce the likelihood of specialist break-in just to get a car stereo in general. They would know this is much harder to sell if it can only be handed off to someone looking for this specifically. Maybe this was more unusual back when. But especially nowadays, these things are usually so integrated they are not worth the effort to transplant to another brand even if possible anyway. Part of the dashboard even. It will at least eliminate 2/3 of the type burglars considering it. So only the "scrounging for the next fix" type left. Those are likely to trash the car even to only find you didn't actually have a stereo though. 😞
Glad you did not destroy this one like the one from This Does not Compute where you butchered the board and solder joints just because the caps were leaking. It would have been better to ask for help or leave it alone instead of destroying all the traces and pads and rip it apart like a dinosaur does with a sheep in Jurassic Park. I still have nightmares.
That's a pretty cool unit. I wish I had one in my car. I have two Philips DCC 900s and two Sony MDS-JE 500 Minidisc decks in need of repair. Can you guys help me?
All bad formats combined, Mini disk, compact cassette and DCC. Only the CD players did good audio back then, loved the multi CD changer players. BOSE was trying to offer premium audio systems by dealerships.
There was nothing inherently bad about the Compact Cassette format, but there were so many cheap and badly designed implementations available over the years that the average Jo(e) could be forgiven for thinking that it was. Had Philips licensed the format, they could have imposed minimum specs that a cassette deck had to comply with in order to fit into different "quality" categories, but that was sadly an opportunity lost. I have two cassette decks sitting here right now from the mid-90s that are capable of overall record/playback performance that makes them hard to distinguish from a CD if decent tapes are used in conjunction with Dolby HX Pro and Dolby C, and neither have ever eaten or damaged a cassette tape due to correct maintenance as per the user manuals. I really wish people who don't understand the format would stop trashing it.
