Samsung 709 + A-03 DVD-R success!!

[Gareth_Horne]

I've been playing around with my new Pioneer A03 DVD burner for a couple of weeks now and as expected the discs it produced were not accepted by my now ageing Samsung 709 DVD player, although they did work on a friends Panasonic DV20.

I decided to source a new EPROM chip with the last firmware revision for this player (3.32a) to replace my original one, which was version 3.24. The chip arrived this morning and after a bit of "fiddling" to get the old chip out of the socket and replaced by the new one, I now have a 709 that reads DVD-R for general discs!

The discs were created using a Pyro card, MSP6.0VE, TMPEnc beta 12a, SpruceUp 1.1 and burnt onto Apple and Pioneer 4.7Gb DVD-R general media.

In case anyone else wishes to try to upgrade their Samsung players I sourced my EPROM from Andy Hancock (Andy@cyrus.freeserve.co.uk) who posts on the http://www.709Online.com forum. The cost of the EPROM was £15+ 0.99 P+P, much cheaper than a new DVD player!

Time to burn some more discs!


Gareth

http://www.garethhorne.co.uk

[paul_tp]

Cool, has this new e-prom helped with the SVCD reading problem as well?, as my firm ware is 18Months old

[JJamez]

Think you could test a couple different brands of CD-R and CD-RW? I'd be really interested in seeing the results!

THanks man.

JJ

[Gareth_Horne]

SuperVideoCD and Video CD seems the same as before unfortunately. VCD on the correct media (Princo or Vivastar CD-R) work fine and are a practical proposition.

SuperVideoCD are recognised and play so long as they are made with I-Author or WinOnCD 3.8 (not Nero), however the dificulties with reading CD-R media at the 2x speed needed for SuperVideoCD causes the a few skips in playback which makes the results anoying to watch.

hth

[Gareth_Horne]

Just tried a DVD-R disc in the upgraded sammy, no go unfortunately, the disc spins for about a minute before being spat out.

looks like I'm going to have to be very careful before burning everything to DVD-R then!

Gareth

[Gareth_Horne]

sorry, that should read DVD-RW, that will not read. DVD-R discs are fine

Gareth