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It does not work on 04. However, from looking steve's picture. It still appears that the toshiba version is also a DVD drive albeit missing some connectors.
The philips drive has a DVD decoder chip on it (SAA7816HL). And a ribbon connectors is used to connect it to the control unit.
From the picture it looks like the same connector is used to connect the toshiba drive to the control unit (if that is the case, it means that toshiba chip should be a DVD decoder chip). I can't read the toshiba p/n off Steve's website. So if anyone can give me that information, I can look into this further. I believe that if we can locate a SAA7816HL based DVD drive, it should be a direct swap of drives into US command.
It's not the laser that differentiate the drive, it's the decoder chip that comes with the drive. I am about to trade my Command for a euro one. So I am not going to mess around with my command. But I think there is a cheap solution to get this to work. However, we are still missing connectors for the video, which is a must for me.
So if anyone want to volunteer their 2004 US command and let me know the toshiba chip p/n on it. I can dig into this further.
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