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anyone have either emerson dvd recorder from Walmart and do you like it?
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GregRod
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1. July 2005 @ 07:18 |
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bill02840
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1. July 2005 @ 09:46 |
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on a RW just go to setup
then disk
then original
then edit
then delete title
I use RW's all the time to record shows I miss and only save certain ones I like.
Make sure you delete under original and not playlist. Playlist only removes access not the file itself.
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evelsteve
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6. July 2005 @ 13:18 |
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The software you posted DOESN'T work, the zip file extracts fine, but the win rar file inside of the zip file DOES NOT WORK. Is there anyway you can post it, just the rar file alone, or whatever's inside of it ALREADY extracted? Doesn't anybody have this file already extracted that can be posted???
Can aybody help me out????????
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booser108
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6. July 2005 @ 18:28 |
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The Cue/ISO image inside the zip is NOT compressed. It is an image. Burn it.
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evelsteve
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6. July 2005 @ 23:37 |
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It's not the CUE file that's compressed (I know what) it's the OTHER file (not counting the notepad file) that can't be extracted (with win rar) HELP!!!!!SOMEbody ANYbody!!!!!AARGHH!!
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evelsteve
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6. July 2005 @ 23:54 |
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Actually let me tell you exactly what's going on. I burnt all 3 files from your rapidshare post, as they are, even though I can't extract one of them (NOT the cue file the OTHER ONE that isn't in notepad, it's inside Windows RAR). I pressed "cfm skip 654" on the remote. The screen asks me to put in the upgrade disc, I did. It keeps spitting it out,and I've done this about 6 times now as I'm writing this post, and NOTHING. It keeps spitting out the disc as if it can't read it.
Now,ironically, the even WEIRDER things is, is when I put in the disc,WITHOUT punching in anything on the remote, the recorder automatically gives me a remaining time on the readout which means it's ready to record (now THAT doesn't make any sense!). Naturally I think that it's automatically updated, but it's NOT! Because when I put in a second BLANK dvd-r, I'm right back where I started from...
it says "error, cannot record..." blah blah blah.
WHAT the hell am I doing wrong??????????
HHHEEEEEEEEELLPPP!!!!!!
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GregRod
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7. July 2005 @ 04:19 |
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Hmmm?
You could just order the upgrade from Funai and avoid the headache.
Greg
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booser108
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7. July 2005 @ 04:58 |
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Or you could stop being an idiot and stop trying to decompress a non compressed file. Ever heard of the daemon tools. Emulate cdroms. If you really want to see the information inside.
It is a cue/iso image. If you actually read the directions as I posted them earlier, you would know that it is a raw image. Burn with Nero by selecting recorder->burn image and select the cue file. Most modern cd burning software will let you properly burn a cue file.
Now stop trying to extract the ISO image with win rar. It is not rar image, you can't do it. It doesn't work. Think about it. If it was a rar image, the extension would probably be filename.iso.rar Is the extension filename.iso.rar? Hell no. It is filename.iso. A cue/iso image has three files associated with it. The .log file tells you if any sectors have been damaged (games with safedisc usually contain lots of these). The .cue file tells you what kind of iso file it is (such as 2352), the tracks, whether they are binary or ascii, data, or audio, and the length of each track. The .iso file contains the actual data along with any edc and ecc code that is contained within the image so the image is not considered "foreign" inside Nero.
Another program that will let you burn it with a free trial version is clonecd. You could try it or if you are still not smart enough to figure out how to burn an iso/cue image, you can order the cd from India and wait a month or more to get it.
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dahauss
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7. July 2005 @ 08:05 |
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BTW you want a SIMA GODVD CT2 which is about $59.95 not a SIMA COPYTHIS! CT1 DIGITAL VIDEO ENHANCER which is what you were looking at for $19.95
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7. July 2005 @ 08:29 |
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An iso can be opened with WinRAR, I do it all the time, it can read the raw data. When you instal it is one of the extentions it asks if you want to associate with.
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GregRod
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7. July 2005 @ 09:02 |
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No...
The Copy THIS! CT1 is $59.99 at Best Buy, and Copy This CT1 works too!
I've seen it in action.
As for ordering the CD from Funai..
Why do you keep saying it takes forever to get it?
I ordered and got mine in 5-7 business days. It sure would beat all this downloading and extracting files going on here.
What is the difference between the CT1 and the CT2?
Greg
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grateoz
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7. July 2005 @ 11:23 |
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Greeting All:
After having to glean the various bits of information on how to upgrade the firmware on both the Emerson & Symphonic DVD-R Recorders, which is scattered about this forum, and noticing that several people were still having trouble with the upgrade, I thought it might be helpful to post a simplified yet reasonably detailed set of instructions on how to actually perform the upgrade. Hopefully this will help just about anyone to do the upgrade. So here goes.
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HOW TO UPGRADE THE FIRMWARE ON THE EMERSON EWR10DR & THE SYMPHONIC SR90VE DVD RECORDER & VCR
**** WARNING: If you don't understand ANY of these instructions then don't even ATTEMPT to do this upgrade ****
1. Download the firmware update from:
http://rapidshare.de/files/1829606/ewr10d4.zip.html
Go to bottom of the page.
Click on button that says "FREE"
A new page will open.
Go to bottom of this page.
Click on the link "ewr10d4.zip". (It may take a few seconds for it to pop up.)
Begin Downloading the file.
2. Locate the file on your hard drive and UnZip it. (If you don't know how to do this then you SHOULDN'T ATTEMPT to do this upgrade!)
3. Using a CD Burning program such as Nero, select what ever function your Burning software uses to copy a "disk image" from a file to a disk. Then select the "ewr10d4.cue" file and burn the ISO image to a CD disk. Be sure to use the "ewr10d4.CUE" file and NOT the "ewr10d4.ISO" file. The "ewr10d4.cue" file contains track information necessary for the burning program to correctly burn the "disk image" to the CD. It may work by burning only the ISO file but then why risk it. The CUE file must have been included for a reason.
**** NOTE: You should have a CUE file AND an ISO file. The ISO file contains the "disk image" data and the CUE file contains the information telling the burning program HOW to burn the ISO data to the CD. [The CUE file is simply a text file. You can actually open it up in Notepad or another text editor and read the information.] You CAN'T burn a "disk image" with ONLY a CUE file. IT WON'T WORK! ****
(AGAIN, If you don't know how to do this then you SHOULDN'T ATTEMPT to do this upgrade!)
4. Power on your Recorder.
5. On your remote control; Press the "CM SKIP" button at the bottom of the remote followed by the numbers: 6, 5, 4. (Do this as rapidly as possible)
6. A screen will appear telling you to insert the upgrade disk. (Thats the disk you just burned)
7. Put the disk in, close the tray and the Recorder will begin to start the upgrade. The display on the front will start counting down and the upgrade will take about 3 minutes. *** DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING UNTIL IT FINISHES UPGRADING THE FIRMWARE ***
8. When the counter on the front of the Recorder reaches 0, the screen with tell you that it has finished upgrading the firmware and THEN THE RECORDER WILL AUTOMATICALLY EJECT THE DISK.
9. Take out the disk and then turn off the power for about 20 seconds.
10. Power on the Recorder and if you followed the instructions above, then you SHOULD be able to burn 8x DVD-R's. (NOTE: This upgrade WON'T change anything on DVD-RW's. You still CAN'T use DVD-RW Ver 1.2 /2-4x CPRM compatible or Above.)
*** DISCLAIMER: You do this upgrade at your own risk. Don't blame me if you don't understand what your doing and you screw up your recorder ****
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Jmark
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7. July 2005 @ 11:33 |
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Thanks Oz-man for the detailed and lucid explanation. Would it be safe to say that one ought to learn all the proclivities of the recorder before attempting to soup it up? I sure don't feel like I could do it correctly, and I have a tendency to use an offending piece of electronic equipment as a frisbee out the window :-)
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evelsteve
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7. July 2005 @ 20:11 |
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Actually, Im not an idiot, it's just that SOMEBODY included a file (in rar format) that doesn't need to be there (along with a notepad file that's absolutely empty), when you really needed to do was just to put the cue file in there, and nothing else, OR it would have been simpler to say:
"guys just burn the cue file only" and that would have been it.
Oh well, all good now, thanks.
AAhhhh the powers of critical thinking................:)
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tanooki
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7. July 2005 @ 22:03 |
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I posted the file on rapidshare and just downloaded it again myself to see what you guys talking about a "rar" file being included...show it to me? I get a iso,cue and a log file...where's this rar file at again? Maybe when you installed WinRAR you associated all files with it? I tried opening it up in winrar(which is stupid and pointless) and it says it is damaged,big suprise,because you shouldn't be using WinRAR for this upgrade at all. Did you guys even read through all the posts regarding this,I have explained the install process a few times myself.
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ncsleep
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8. July 2005 @ 18:23 |
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Darn, this is confusing. I thought I was responding to McAlister's forum message posted 26 Sep 2004 and after I had sent it, found out I had sent a "private message" which was not my intent. So, hopefully, I can get this message posted in the correct place:
I decided to go back to the original thread and read from start to finish instead of the other way round and came across your message written last fall. Recently I played a copyrighted DVD inputed to the front of my TV with all that Time Warner/Scientific America Box crap connected to my GO VIDEO dual tape player/recorder and recorded the DVD onto VHS in slot #1. I read where you mentioned something about a stabilizer. What exactly is that and how would one work on a dual GO VIDEO? Because obviously my newly copied VHS tape looked like a "copied tape." When I took the "copied tape" into the other room to try and make a back up copy on my VHS/DVD Panasonic recorder and pressed the DUB button, I immediately got a response from the DVD that the VHS tape was a copyrighted tape. Is there a way around this. I seem to have a knack for buying equipment that doesn't match or I don't know how to use and the same situation about software for my computer. My goal still is to be able to make back-up copies of my DVD's as I use the copy at work in my home/office. I would also like to get rid of the Scientific American Box... it has a code but I'm not sure that my Panasonic will work as a tuner.
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9. July 2005 @ 16:05 |
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Here is an update to my previous post about buying DVD-R 4x on eBay.
I recently purchased a 100 spindle of "no-name" blank DVD-R 4x on eBay, it cost me $0.11 plus $19.50 shipping = $19.61 total. They were shipped within 48 hours of purchase, packed well, arrived in a week by USPS media mail, and I am pleased to report that they work fine in the Emerson machine. They are definitely "blank" - no label at all - and you have to look close to figure which side is which. The code etched into the center says DVD-4R and a string of numbers.
If you would like to explore this option, I can recommend the seller "primedias" who is in California. They have branded DVD as well as no-name. To see what they have listed, go to
http://stores.ebay.com/Primedias
A couple of notes:
1. Some forum participants have noted there may be quality and other issues on no-name media. Check previous posts for their comments.
2. The rather strange price of $0.11 plus $19.50 shipping is the result of eBay's seller commission policy - which is based only on the selling price, not the shipping. This is an incentive for sellers to inflate the shipping cost and deflate the sale cost.
Thanks for all forum participants for continually adding to our body of knowledge about these machines. I have been extremely pleased with mine and it gets a LOT of use making DVDs, generally every day.
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GregRod
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13. July 2005 @ 06:48 |
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motorcycl
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13. July 2005 @ 07:31 |
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I have a question about the different ways to hook up a DVD Recorder.
I have never used anything except the regular RCA cables. Can any
of the three types of cables be used, or are the Component and S-video
for something else other than regular operation.
If either can be used. What is the difference? The standard RCA,
and the Component cables look the same except for the color.
Can they be interchanged? Which is best?
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GregRod
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20. July 2005 @ 10:21 |
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Has anyone tried the SIMA CT1 or CT2 with this recorder yet?
If so, how did it work?
Greg
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blackreaf
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29. July 2005 @ 05:21 |
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I have tried everything that you people have said to do and I am still not able to make this upgrade work. How the hell do you write the .ISO .cue and the .txt files to the same disk using imaging? I can only write one at a time. Also how do you get the upgrade screen off once you have it going? This is just in case I would like to watch a movie while I wait for the disk that I will most likely order today.
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Stuart
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budman28
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29. July 2005 @ 15:34 |
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Hi,
Has anybody that has this recorder had the following problem.
I did the 8x upgrade in May and a couple weeks ago my recorder started messing up. You press record and it will count up to 59 seconds and start at 0 again and then count back to 59 and over and over until it comes up Can not record to disc. If you hit stop it tries to write to disc, but comes up an error. I don't hear the scratchy sound you hear when you are recording,"when it is writing to disc", so it may not be writing to disc. If I can get it to burn, it will play in the recorder, but if you put it in a regular dvd player the title menu comes on, but when you hit play it says can't play disc or in my sony it just goes back to the sony screen. One wierd thing is that I can get it 8 out of 10 times to record on my Fuji 8x dvd-r's made in Japan, but I just bought the same DVD-R Fuji, but they are made in Taiwan and they won't work. My Maxell 4x will not work or my Beall 4x or my Memorex 8x and they all worked before.
Any idea of the problem?
I sent an e-mail to Funai about the recorder and they must not have looked at my e-mail very well because they wrote back and said I need the firmware upgrade for 8x dvd's, so that was no help and when you call the 800#, the person you always get on the line is really hard to understand.
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Budman28
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GregRod
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30. July 2005 @ 08:46 |
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Budman...
Did you get the upgrade disc from funai or did you burn one from the net?
If it was from the net it could be bad or incorrect upgrade data. It sounds more to me like a power surge may have messed up you unit.
The only thing that the upgrade disc does is put code into your drive that allows x8 discs. The upgade would not wipe out x4 data.
Hmmm...this is why I have not installed that upgrade disc yet. I just continue to buy as much x4 discs that I can.
Sorry that you are having this issue.
Greg
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GregRod
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30. July 2005 @ 08:46 |
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Jmark
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30. July 2005 @ 10:10 |
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Regarding the 8x solution disc--is it really necessary? If the only difference is some speed, is it worth it to load it? Some of you know computers far better than me, I fear rocking the boat on this. I have a solid fear of computer problems for no obvious reason--mainly because they are light enough to throw out the window :)
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