Philips firmware upgrade

[buddymann]

After months of experiments I finally came to the conclusion that my playback problems did not have anything to do with the way I made my VCDs but with the player itself. I have a Philips DVD762.
Searching around here and on the web led me to Philips website for the FRENCH division where they have DVD player firmware upgrades to download. There was an upgrade which was usable for a large number of models including my model on the site.
In order for the upgrade to work your DVD has to be 'flashable'. Not all of them are but if yours isn't then the disk won't work anyway so 'nothing ventured nothing gained'.
I downloaded the zipfile, unzipped it, burned both resulting files on a CD rom and installed according to instructions I found somewhere here in VCD help.

- Turn player on
- Press 'open'
- Put disk in and close but DO NOT PRESS PLAY
- Wait for disk to load up new firmware.
- Display shows what's going on and it takes a while
- Drawer opens
- Take out disk
- DO NOT PRESS CLOSE but push drawer lightly to shut it
- Turn power off
- Turn power on again

After this I found that my DVDs played without freezing or jumping and my SVCDs showed the playback time. I still couldn't fast forward or rewind the SVCDs though.

I HAVE LOST THE LINK TO THE PHILIPS FRENCH WEBSITE BUT PERHAPS SOMEONE ELSE WILL POST THEM FOR OTHER PHILIPS OWNERS??

When I contacted Philips where I live (Sweden) they said not to try any upgrades, to take the player to a dealer etcetera and they didn't know about the French website. But the downloadable upgrade seems to work.

[buddymann]

In the above I mean of course that my VCDs now play without freezing (wrote DVDs by mistake!)

[Truman]

http://www.ianc.net/philips/downloads.shtml

[buddymann]

Thanks Truman!
Hope this helps other frustrated Philips owners!