LG bd-530 - Page 15

Nice, thanks!!

Happy New Year To All!!! Its been awhile but just in case FYI: LG posted a correction for the 530...Seems they downgraded from .277 to .242

Firmware update for BD550/BD555 (VER:BD5.242.00)
Filename Release Date Size
BD551_Upgrade_Instruction.pdf 01/03/2013 79K
LG_BD_5200M50.zip 01/03/2013 65,383K

LINK: http://www.lg.com/us/support-product/lg-BD530#

Best Wishes, eVa

My 530 keeps rebooting every few minutes for the past couple of days. I've had this player for 2 years now. I tried downgrading the software to .242 but it didn't help. Any ideas?

Is your 530 CEC-enabled with your TV? My 530 turns on automatically when I switch to that input on my TV; and once turned on via CEC (Aquos Link, in my case), it will keep turning itself on again even after I turn it off as long as I am on that input. So I have to switch input or turn off TV before turning off 530 for 530 to stay off.

If your 530 is rebooting while you are watching a movie then my guess is that your 530 is dying. Lower end LG blu ray players are known to have subpar capacitors that will give out. Check out the Amazon reviews. It's a 50/50 proposition that LG 530 continue to work past a year. FWIW, my 530 is my second unit. My first died shortly after a year mark. It simply didn't turn on.
Edited by Apostate - 1/17/13 at 7:15am

I had lockups when scanning in reverse on a regular DVD in the BD530 Blu-Ray. System would freeze and the only solution was to pull the plug and re-plug it. It all started when I allowed a s/w upgrade to BD.5.277. After a lot of frustration and looking, I finally went to the LG support site and downloaded the BD_5200M50.zip file. I unzipped the file and copied it to a CD. Then I did an initialize to factory settings. Then, I inserted the CD and closed the drawer. The player recognized the CD and brought up the update window. Even though this was a backward change to BD.242.00 the player ran it as an upgrade. I tried a lot of fooling around afterword and was not able to make this .242 s/w lockup. So much for upgrades. I'm leaving it where it is. PROBLEM SOLVED!

FYI: LG Firmware Update: Firmware update for BD550/BD555 (Ver:BD5.279.00/Date:2013.03.06) Release Date: 03/07/2013

Hope they don't try to sneak in Cinavia in a FW update. That happened in a Samsung BluRay player I have, and they didn't provide a way to revert.