How to Make a DIY Widescreen TV in 5 Minutes!!

Make your own sleek wide screen display in about 5 minutes (maybe less if you're one of the cool kids ;) Really easy to do - Looks great when it's finished!

Step 1: Grab your Gear - TVs and DVDs

Grab 2 TVs, relatively the same size. It doesn't matter how old the TVs are, just as long as a modern DVD player can be hooked up to it. Set them side by side with as little space between them as possible.

Comments

[olavxxx]

 So, saved money you say? but you bought 2 x tv's and 2 x dvdplayers + 1 x blank dvd disc :-P

but yeah, I know it's meant to be funny and I give it a 3 on the dice.

[mercury724]

lame...

[Ramnosity]

1. It would be just as expensive to buy two tv and two dvd players as just getting a widescreen. 2. Copying a DVD is illegal. 3. You loose part of your picture between the tvs. sorry but that's not really a good idea.

[thefoodman]

copying dvds is legal if u don't sell them or give them to freinds

[xeniczone]

Copying a DVD isn't illegal. As long as your keeping the copy and your own the original. Most people buy a dvd and only use the original to copy it. After that they never use the original again.

[slimguy379]

Amen, why the hell would companies such as clone DVD, DVD dycrypter, clone DVD, etc be still "alive"? they've been around for ever nero just came out w/ 7 so they have been around for quite some time. their fight in court is that you the buyer of the original DVD have he right to backup you movies. Its just a matter of WHAT you do with those backups.

[Derin]

the tvs-that is what ebay and craigslist is for
dvd issue-i refuse to talk because i dont want to misinform ppl
losing-

SAW IT OFF BRO

that last sentence was not because im biased justthe first idea in my head

[joe57005]

it's perfectly legal if it's for your own personal use only it's illegal if you distribute that copy, even to an individual person. i make backups of all my dvds, they're just on my hard drive, to be burned in the event of damage to my dvds.

[Joe426]

joe is right. if it's for your own use, its legal. and yes, i own an original copy. So...yes, it was legal. And no, i didn't sell it.

[tom61]

Actually, in the US, if you break encryption or other copy protection measures, it is still illegal whether you own a license to the original or not. All thanks to the DMCA.

[James (pseudo-geek)]

EHEM hes not "breaking encryption or other copy protection measures" its a DVD not like he has to break something to copy it.

[four_eyes954]

actually now adays they do have encryptions on DVDs so you cant copy it what so ever

[James (pseudo-geek)]

wrong. I currently have a program on my pc that decodes it, copies it, then recodes it to put it on a dvd.

[pbpenguin5]

i have the same software and i even have a software to create the ipod format for the dvd so i can watch my dvds on my ipod. all free software off the internet.

[four_eyes954]

dude first decoding is breaking the encryption second its still illegal with most DVDs

[James (pseudo-geek)]

even my own, eh?

[four_eyes954]

by your own do you mean ones you bought or ones you recorded if its one you recorded im sure you can copy it if its one you bought you still cant LEGALLY do it

[tom61]

Sorry for using a vernacular, what I meant is circumventing copy protection. While there are unencrypted and non-Macrovison enabled DVDs, almost all new releases (for example, 300) do have copy protection enabled. The tutorial linked is a how-to on breaking encryption.

A one-to-one copy is possible with encryption intact, but it would still not fall under any interpretation of "fair use" I've heard of, and still be a violation of copyright.

[joe57005]

i hate the dmca and the idiot persident clinton who signed it in to law!! i'm in favor of the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Acts (look it up on wikipedia)

[cantthinkof bettername]

Oh, that was Clinton? He's an even worse person than I thought.

[tom61]

What about the Congress that passed it unanimously? Even if he vetoed it, they still could have pushed it through.

[joe57005]

yeah, i know... still didn't like him as a president, though.

[Mr E Man]

Just buy a Widescreen Cheapskate.. LMAO AND IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES, YOU CAN SEE THE CENTRE!

[slimguy379]

those TVs look fake.

[=SMART=]

they are

[shveet]

ya...

[cantthinkof bettername]

Is it legal to put a DVD on an mp3 player. I think it should be, because I bought the DVD, and I should be able to watch it on my mp3 player instead of buying it like how they sell them on itunes.

[A.C.E.]

backups are legal if you own the disk. saying its not legal is like saying it is illegal to rip mp3 files from a CD you bought from a store and play the "backup" of the mp3 on an ipod.

[cantthinkof bettername]

Then how come they make it so hard?

[A.C.E.]

because they don't trust us..

[bigboy_of_manila]

IF YOU ZOOM 4X MEANING YOU WILL GET 1/4 OF THE WHOLE SCREEN, THEN U NEDD 4 TV TO VIEW THE WHOLE SCREEN OTHER WISE YOU ARE JUST SEING HALF OF THE SCREEN USING TWO TV. CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG

[cornflaker]

Nah the black bars ( and probably a little but not much of the actual movie) will be cropped from the top and bottom.

[cantthinkof bettername]

If you did this with some projectors there wouldn't be a gap, and you could have a humongous screen.

[bengerszewski]

why would you need to do 2 at once then? the screen is already huge.

[cantthinkof bettername]

Why settle for "huge", when you could have "humongous"?

[rocketman221]

ha ha very funny

[four_eyes954]

if your willing to actually do this id suggest just taking the screens out and putting them side by side

[IamTheCreator]

Original idea, kind of expensive unless you have two same size tvs, and two dvd players, plus, theres just that big gap in between. I'd rather watch it on regular tv...But yes good idea, bad functionality.

[ramses]

thank you

[Hawaii00000]

Couldn't you split the video wire and just use one dvd player if you know what I mean.