Samsung DVD-E232 Chipset

Samsung have always been innovators when it comes to chip design, and this player has one of the best chipsets.

Back in 2005, the Zoran processor was a newcomer used in a wide range of consumer electronics products. This chip contains the decoder circuitry to provide the Dolby DTS channels. It also contains the decoders for DVD MPEG and, audio MP3.

Here is another picture of the VADDIS 5E-2i processor chip with its crystal oscillator.

IS42S16400A-7T is a 64 Mbit Synchronous Dynamic RAM manufactured by the ISSI Corporation in 2003.

This is the Samsung system controller chip.

This looks like a flash memory chip that holds the firmware. I wonder if it is possible to extract the firmware, modify it, and write it back.

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