Very Fresh Firmware List for Panasonic! (RP91 and XP unit discoveries!!) - Page 36

I have had my RP91 since 2001 with no problems. The other night I started to watch a movie and about 10 minutes in the player locked up like pausing the picture. Nothing worked on the remote or front panel. I finally unplugged it and after a few minutes it came back on front panel read welcome to dvd world ect. then reading disc then locked up again. I repeated the uplugging process and got it to come on and took the disc out, the close and went blank.

So far the only thing I can do is get it to come on one time after plugging it back in with welcome to dvd world ect. then nothing.

Any ideas ( I have tried other dvds and cds same thing reading disc------- then nothing front panel blank and screen. I havent udate the firmaware I cant remember which one it has.

Thanks in advance

Brad

Any FW update available for the CP67?

Another RP-82 request. I used the wrong firmware update and turned mine into a paper weight. Thanks.

I just wanted to extend a "thank you" to Sango and all others who have given instructions and advice on the Panasonic DVD firmware update. I also want to report my experiences.

I have a Panasonic RP62, and I mainly wanted to update the firmware so it would play DVD+R media. I downloaded the ISO firmware from the site that requires a PayPal donation to help out on bandwidth. It took about seven hours on my dial-up connection (around 4.0 kbps) to download the 89 Mb zipped file. That's a healthy speed for my connection.

The first time I tried to burn the ISO to CD-R, I used the little ISO Power Recorder tweak utility on XP. I've used it successfully a few times, but for some reason it would not work on this particular file. The burnt image looked perfect (just as the "good burn" was displayed at the download site), but when I put it in the DVD player I got a "noPlay" message on the front panel, and the TV screen stated that it was a non-playable disc.

After putzing around a while, I finally reinstalled my copy of BlindWrite 5.2.0.136, which I have not used in a while, and burned the ISO file to a fresh 700 Mb CD-R. I set BlindWrite for "Slow" burn and "Automatic" to burn to a Plextor 708A. Voila! It worked like a charm and only took about two minutes to finish the firmware flash.

The Panasonic now can play both DVD-R and DVD+R media. The only thing I'm wondering about are the "Auto 1, Auto 2" options on the Panasonic RP62. Now all I can find is "Automatic, Film, Video". I guess this changed with the update? It's no biggie, just wondering if anyone else had noticed the change, or if I'm missing something. According to the DVD Benchmark site, Auto 1 is the best setting, so hopefully that is equivalent to the "Automatic" setting.

Anyway, thanks again everyone for the info and making the firmware available.

Cheers!

First, thanks OP for posting this firmware.... nice gift to all of us panasonic users.

For those of you upgrading your RP62's... what firmware version did yours show initially and what did it change to?

Mine was showing H053 (i think) and now it shows H073 as the last 4 digits when I hit open + pause, 7

Also, Mobiustrip, when I hit the cinema button on the remote mine still toggles through cinema 1, cinema 2, and normal.

Where are you seeing those other options?

Big thanks for the impressive info! NOt even Denon knew this when I called.
I have a question, I have a Denon 1600 made in June of 2002, and when I did the procedure for firmware version my unit said V100 502054.... is there a newer version?

The Pq has always looked superb, I even went as far as to buying both the 3910 and 2910 and was Pissed to find for component the 1600 cannot be touched! (the audio is another story)

Does anyone have a source to obtain region free upgrade for the RP91 or know of a source for the Service Disc 2 state side?

....502068 is the latest version. This is on the latest Panasonic update disc.

anyone running OSX on a Mac able to burn the RP91 firmware? i can't follow the directions listed on an earlier post because the only version of Disk Copy is OS9, and the version included on OSX in the OS9 emulator doesn't work to burn this image.

i tried toast and discblaze, and neither did anything when i put the disc in the rp91 it rejects it.

burning the disc image seems to work as far as the burning process is concerned....

Sango,

I am looking for a firmware update for my Denon 1600. I tried ordering through JVB Digital, but the disc failed to read and their upload of the file to me is not working well either. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

I am almost positive that once you make the donation here: http://www.firmwareupdate.us/ there is a 1600 firmware link.

Dave

Person,

You are correct. There seemed to be a lot of ambiguity about that and that's why I didn't bother. There is a link right in the page there. Thanks for your suggestion.

Sango,

I did see that post, but I've seen so many questions about old discs and new discs and people asking the same question I wasn't sure.

Thanks for posting that link though. Can't wait to go home and try it.

i finally got my Mac to burn some discs of the panasonic rp91 firmware update that the rp91 recognizes...problem is, the RP91 tells me "this update is not compatible with this player". i doubel checked and made sure the ISO image was indeed the rp91 firmware update, which it is. the other test disc i made using different burn settings isn't rejected by the player but just sits in the player with the RP91 saying "play", with nothing happening. it won't let me stop i either - i was hoping this was a firmware update happening but it's been over 10 minutes and it's still stuck on "play".

any help appreciated -

thanks

update on my previous problem - the dvd player is reading the firmware disc just fine now but still says the update is incompatible with the player. searched the forum and found similar problems posted, but the solution was to upgrade to 236 first (on the RP91), and my player is already at 236. doesn't seem to want to upgrade to 262!!

oleus

My Panny XP30 will only play some of my burned DVDs. My Zenith plays them all. I don't get it. Any chance the firmware upgrade would fix this problem?

Doubtful. One of the major differences between the XP30 and the XP50/RP91 is their ability to play DVD-RAM discs. Apparently this extends to some other formats as well.

Just another XP30 firmware update datapoint.

i'm going to get a new DVD burner this weekend so i did the update to minimize
problems.

i paid my buck, downloaded and extracted the iso image and tried to burn (per
instructions at download site) with Nero Express 5.5 which i got
free with a cheap CD burner years ago. it failed - i tried everything.
i have had nothing but trouble with Nero Express...dunno...other's here seem to like
it..maybe full copy is different.

anyway, i used Alcohol 120% burn wizard (which defaulted to DAO/SAO)
and it burned perfectly 1st time. 4x burn with hp cd burner to 16x Memorex CD-R.

I checked out player diags like laser current, etc. all went as
expected so i took the plunge. update took about 5 minutes, initialize
and reset were not necessary, ie. it rebooted just fine. i restored
my settings and all seems fine.

previous version was V005 65H268. new version is V005 65H302.

many thanks to Sango and others for great info in this and other threads.

phil

makes sense, will do. glad i wrote settings down

oh yeah, minor question about laser diags...i did it once and found (for both dvd and cd) initial and measured to be within 1 of each other. a few seconds later
i did it again (too slow writing info down) and noticed they shifted apart a bit...
but still within 2 or 3 of eachother. is there an observer effect? is this
something one should do rarely for fear of hurting lasers?

thanks, phil

sango,
thanks...i guess i'll stay away from that diag until i have problems..incase it
is a stress test of any sort.
phil

Hello,


I have the original disc with the Denon 1600 firmware on it. Is there a list of compatible players that are on that disc anywhere? I'm specifically looking for the Panasonic RV-32 firmware.

Thanks,
Geo

Thanks, Sango!

Mr. Sango

I too have an RP56 and was wondering what I could expect from the updated firmware.

i just wish i COULD update my firmware....the 262 update discs say "cannot upgrade to this version" and the workaround (installing 259, then going to 262 - i'm on 236 i think) won't work. none of the discs i burn with the 259 update will even be recognized by the rp91....argh!