Very Fresh Firmware List for Panasonic! (RP91 and XP unit discoveries!!) - Page 5

The firmware upgrade is fot stock units only, no mods. For the mods, you need to know which company made the mod so they can patch it. JVB is one of the mod companies and they helped patched my R3 82 to make it region free again. My unit apparently uses their mod kit after contacting them when I updated mine initially and lost regions because of it.

greeno, if you have online contact, please contact me. Seems like something very fishy and that is not correct. Try at 1x or 4 maybe, but it's werid that it said failure. Maybe the disc did not burn correctly.

Chances are it doesn't support the writing mode which can also mean your burner is out of date.

If you put a check mark on DAO Pw in the CD Writer(not the final burn window) window when it wasn't checked by default, that's going to be the problem. This is because the BW has already detected your CD Burner features and found out the mode isn'ts supported, therefore it wouldn't of shown up on the burn screen. Putting the check mark in will force the unit to use something it doesn't have.

Try using DAO Pq or the very last resort SAO Cooked. Then you probably have to go to a friend's house and use their burner to use the Pw.

Hope this helps

Hi jflegert:

As I've mentioned in my thread, use Blindwrite 4.57. The reason is because in the 5, the advanced features which I'm talking about are missing so this is why I specifically mentioned the particular version.
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Hi Dagger:

Nero can't read BW format, except the the other way is true. Nero can most likely copy if it I made the image using Nero but I don't trust it because it doesn't copy subcodes. It will copy but there isn't any guarentee that it's copied exactly perfectly like the original.

An example would be copying some disc which has a some protection which looks for something at a certain location on the disc. Without subcodes, you can copy fine. However, when it comes to trying to test the disc, you'll end up with a disc which doesn't work and i'll give an error message or saids, please insert the disc etc.... With subcodes, none of that.
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I found two very good tuitorials reguarding the read/write methods using BW 4.57. They are very useful. I remember the BW site originally had it and it's gone.

I suggest that users should read very throrougly through them to fully understand understand Blindwrite and it's features why it makes it a very powerful recording tool.

Link 1
Link 2

Note: I aimed the two links intentionally to the writing page to get that question out of the way but you should read from the very beginning afterwards.

This is why in the post, use Blindread - read subcodes and Blindwrite - DAO Pw. Both of these in combination will be the key pointers in making a pefect 1:1 copy. It does mentioned about the SAO mode thing but it's very technical which I don't understand so it should be fine with what I mentioned above.

Sango

Seems like Omikron's case is ok in this case for the firmware. Just note, that if you want to copy CDs(which have protection) then you definately want the 4 for the advacned features.
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I have completely redone the start thread which list the latest firmware versions of the players.

Done!

Hi nguyenphananh:

All applicable units for the update are listed on the start thread which I revised today. I'm not sure what PV32 is but I assume you are referring to RV32.

Depending on your setup on the XP30 and what you're watching, you should see the difference in the PQ as other users have reported. I'm glad it to hear that it improved other things like VCD as you mentioned.

Sango

Hi nguyenphananh:

The firmware for the RV32 is actually in the firmware disc itself. They are all merged in file so you can't pick out which one is which so you'll be basically getting a package deal with all those updates one the disc.

On page 6 of the thread, there is the host link for you to download the firmware and burn it to the disc (assuming you know the instructions which is mentioned in the thread).
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Hi EL:

I think you mean your player is made region/macro free after the svc disc 2, not was!! Had me a bit confused there for a sec. =) Do you have the original or the copied one (I have the original)?

Also, which region is your unit? I noticed for some strange reason my RP56(R1), after the upgrade and svc 2 disc trick, the unit's default region is now 2 instead of 1!! Strange huh?, but it's still region/macrofree. Just curious if your unit saids that too or it stay on it's original region. Maybe it jumped on me because I invoked the reset sequence.
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I'll just mentioned it again. PQ did change with the RP56 with the color rendering and the details, just like the other units. Go watch Last Exile, Chobits and a bunch of other anime which are made in CG because you can easily see differences that way. =)

BTW for the anime fans: I just obtained Chobits 7th volume yesturday and did notice a difference before the update as well. Just watching the opening of the show is good enough to notice the changes. Oh yes!! it does have the pencil board. =)

I guess you guys can go ahead and test anything on your players to see if the firmware has made other changes which you haven't noticed before and post, then will combine it to summarize the changes.

Thanks for the observations and comments so far! =)

Sango