How does one check the firmware version on a LiteOn 5005?

[tac7]

Anyone know how to check the firmware version on a LiteOn 5005?
Couldn't find any answers by going through previous posts.

Got the LiteOn 5005 last night - has pretty well all the known problems:

* Green tint (not that bad but noticeable),
* Front input noise (totally unusable),
* Lot of tuner video noise and annoying audio hum on all channels,
* Jerky picture when recording from VCR source,
* SLP/6h mode identical to burning 68min VCDs (poor). Anyone know of
***a burner that is somewhat better in 6h mode?
* No aspect ratio adjustment on playback (to get rid of - or at least
***reduce the size of black bars). *Samsung and some Cyberhome players
***do a good job to adjust the aspect ratio.

Hoping to at least being able to get rid of the green tint, otherwise no use keeping the 5005. -tac7

[lordsmurf]

Serial number in setup screen. Also read the manual.

[tac7]

Thanks.....it was there all along, but so faint I could hardly make it out.
Just did the latest firmware update, but didn't make any difference with any of the 5005's problems. Oh well...

[solidsnake]

you forgot to mention audio out of synch in 6hr slp mode
no rf modulator
mono tuner
recording doesnt start all the time right when rec is pushed
clock is too fast
programed shows dont delete themselves
whooo is that it?

[linetest]

I had bought one a few weeks ago. Green tint was very evident. Updated the firmware and it made it much more tolerable. But, still a slight green tinge on darker scenes. It didn't cut it for me, so back it went. I'm going to wait and see when the new Pioneer models come out. I will probably get one of those if they handle a VCR input a little better than the current model.
The Lite-on should be $99 with the big names only $30-40 more than the current price of the 5005.

[lordsmurf]

recording doesnt start all the time right when rec is pushed

That's an invalid complaint. Even VCRs have a slight pause while the tape and heads meet, about 3-4 seconds. Almost all DVD recorders have a slight delay of a couple seconds while it spins up the media, engages the encoder, and starts to burn.

[tac7]

"recording doesnt start all the time right when rec is pushed"

From what I have read, and what I have tried so far, this seems to be more of a problem with DVD-R discs. I did several trials with an on-screen clock: *When using DVD+R media, the longest time delay for me has been one second, or even less. So I'm happy with that part.

After the fw update, I have noticed now that the jittery video from a VCR source is completely gone. That helps a lot too.

So that leaves the grounding (noise) issue with the Front Inputs, a noisy tuner, and that green hue -- although that's now not as noticeable as well with the new fw. *Maybe there is still hope...*****-tac7

[Ensign]

I just got a Lite-On 5005 and I have firmware questions.

1: How offen do lite-on upgrade the firmware? It seems like every month the reviews for this product keeps announcing a upgrade.

2: What is the lastest upgade version for this unit

3: As I was reading the reviews, there seem to be some manufacturing dates/firmware numbers to avoid. What are they?

4: Are there some firmware versions that should not be upgraded to the lastest if the unit works OK comming out of the box?

Thanks for any help