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reasonman

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16. January 2007 @ 07:54

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I have a DMR-E80H that is about 3 years old and was running fine with the original firmware. I put in a new 8X DVD-R and it said it was incompatible. After researching the forums, I decided upgrading the firmware with the latest was what I should do.

Big mistake. It worked fine the first time with the 8X DVD-R. But now, it will only read about half of the old DVD-R's that it created using the original firmware.

And it also has a lot of problems with the new 8X DVD-R's. I have to restart it (unplug, wait, etc.) several times and sometimes it will be able to write to the disk. I have also reset to the original factory settings a couple of times to no avail.

Is there any way to fix this? Can I go back to the original firmware? Is the machine basically a TIVO now?

Please help!

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REPAIRMAN

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17. January 2007 @ 12:09

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[quote=reasonman]I have a DMR-E80H that is about 3 years old and was running fine with the original firmware. I put in a new 8X DVD-R and it said it was incompatible. After researching the forums, I decided upgrading the firmware with the latest was what I should do.

Big mistake. It worked fine the first time with the 8X DVD-R. But now, it will only read about half of the old DVD-R's that it created using the original firmware.

And it also has a lot of problems with the new 8X DVD-R's. I have to restart it (unplug, wait, etc.) several times and sometimes it will be able to write to the disk. I have also reset to the original factory settings a couple of times to no avail.

Is there any way to fix this? Can I go back to the original firmware? Is the machine basically a TIVO now?

What file version of the firmware have you got? You cannot go backwards with Panasonic firmware but you may be able to upload another version beyond the one you have got. I have access to the latest firmware upgrades and may be able to help

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reasonman

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17. January 2007 @ 18:34

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It's from the panasonic website, dated 4/15/05.

http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/sto...age=DVDFirmware

Thanks for your help.

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REPAIRMAN

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21. January 2007 @ 09:03

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Those updates are probably too old now --I`ve looked at them and the filenumbers don`t look familiar--I`ll check them against the uk versions and let you know, The only ways to go backwards in firmware are to have the e-eprom changed on the digital pcb in the unit---not for the faint hearted--or the other way is to hace the digital pcb changed which is expensive

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reasonman

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22. January 2007 @ 20:18

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The Panasonic firmware is almost 2 years old (4/15/2005).

I hope you are able to find an update. It was working so well before I updated it.

I actually have an eprom programmer around here somewhere. Haven't used it in about 20 years. But that would probably just make things worse.

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