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what's the improvement?

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Minos I would suggest to change the name of this thread, and include the 2.5.

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Are these firmware OFFICIAL?

Goood job!
I'm going to buy one of these bulk Philips..........

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(in reply to adarkar)

Thank you minos

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I wonder where you get these firmwares....... I have visited Philips support website but found any for the bulk version (PBDV1640)...

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Hi Minos, i'm having problem with this latest firmware. It seems that nero either hangs or is not able to erase/write a CD-RW properly (gives error writting to media). I'm having these problems since flashing with 2.5 and only tested with CD-RW not DVD medias. Looking through the changes file i can read that in 2.4 they fixed some hangs on systems with nForce chipset & WinXP SP2 (exactly what I have !!), could they forgot to put that fix in 2.5 ??
Anyway I reverted back to firmware 2.4 and all is working smoothly as before with CDs and DVDs...

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Hello, since I flashed to firmware B2.5, I cannot burn DVD-R. I tried Sony DVD-R (4-speed) and That's Write DVD-R (4-speed). When I insert a blank disk, is is not recognized. With firmware B2.0 I could write the Sony, but with a lot of failures and the disk was only readable in the PC, not a dvd-player. I cannot format or write to my CD-RW (Arita Professional, 4-speed), but Maxell CD-RW (10-speed) works rather fine.

Do others also have trouble writing to DVD-R and CD-RW?

Sony 4x DVD-R
Disc Type = DVD-R (Single Layer)
Disc MID = 53 4F 4E 59 30 34 (SONY04)
Disc TID = 44 31 00 00 00 00 (D1....)
Nominal Capacity = 4.36GB
Manufacturer Maybe = Sony Corporation
SMART-BURN Speed Limit = 0.0X (Write)

That'sWrite 4x DVD-R
Disc Type = DVD-R (Single Layer)
Disc MID = 56 44 53 50 FFFFFFAD 53 (VDSP.S)
Disc TID = 41 42 20 30 31 00 (AB 01.)
Manufacturer Maybe = Interaxia AG
SMART-BURN Speed Limit = 0.0X (Write)

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In addition to my previous post:

Arita Professional CD-RW 650Mb 4x
Disc Type = NORMAL CD-RW
Material = Phase Change
Lead In = 97:27:10
Lead Out = 74:41:00
Nominal Capacity = 656.10MB
Manufacturer Maybe = Plasmon Data Systems Ltd.
SMART-BURN Speed Limit = 4X (Write)

Maxell CD-RW80 700Mb 10x
Disc Type = HIGH SPEED CD-RW
Material = Phase Change
Lead In = 97:27:00
Lead Out = 79:59:74
Nominal Capacity = 702.83MB
Manufacturer Maybe = Ricoh Company Limited
SMART-BURN Speed Limit = 10X (Write)

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I had several errors with my computer: Athlon 3200+ 64 bits. 1 Gig mem. MSIK8MM=ILSRB. First it had a weird hang for about 10 seconds. With the firmwareupgrade for my PCDV6116 Romplayer I solved that issue

I upgraded my PBDV1640B/00 and now (finally) it works with the 8x DVDR+ writebles from Philips itself. Funny though that the red light when burning isn't there anymore, nut who cares... I like green light as much as red ones :)))

Both player are still under warranty, so I hope all stays well now..

Teach

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Welcome to this forum.

I hope people from Philips to read this since they said that the led shouldn't be red.

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I got an answer from Philips about my problems with CD-RW. The 1640 cannot burn CD-RW made for burning with 1-4speed, CD-RW high speed only! My CD-RW burner (NEC) has no problems with high or low speed at all.

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ORIGINAL: Iggy

Welcome to this forum.

I hope people from Philips to read this since they said that the led shouldn't be red.

Thnx Iggy, This site is the only one where I could find the firmware upgrades.... Happy to be here..

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