Unofficial VGP-XL1B2 Thread - Page 37

Where can I find the XL1b2 or the XL1b3? so I can archive my CD's? or DVD's?
Is there a successor to it? with the same price point?

Where can I find the XL1b2 or the XL1b3? Google
so I can archive my CD's? or DVD's? yes
Is there a successor to it? yes
with the same price point? no - see Sony web site (HES - Home Entertainment Server)

I have a new inbox XL1B3 with the sony extended warranty $350 + actual shipping. There is one on Ebay now, it is up to $376 + 38 shipping. Let me know. If not I'll ebay this one.
Luckyflyer

I have several B2's on Ebay with 3 year Sony extended warranties. These things are next to impossible to find anymore......



Luckyflyer... where did you pick up a B3 with an extended warranty. The one you bought from me was a B2, correct?

Yes the one I got from you is a B2. I found a new in box B3 at the SonyStyle store at the Galleria mall in Dallas. Supposedly at that time (the week before Christmas) there were 4 at SonyStyle stores in the US. The CSR couldn't tell me which stores had them so I started calling stores in my region and lucked out and found the B3. Mine is now on ebay.
Luckyflyer

Guess your name is "lucky" for a reason!

The stock of all of these units is limited to what is available at the Sony Style "Outlet" stores. Unfortunately there aren't many of these stores nationwide.

Best of luck with your sale, I am sure you won't have any problem getting at least what you paid for it.

Fran

Does anyone know if it's possible to install XP Pro x64 to get support for memory, and then stitch the "media center" on top

Thanks for a great forum!

-DC

DC, just FYI that quote of mine is way obsolete. Since then, Vista has grown up and I have also evolved to use DVDProfiler excusively since it now supports changers (via my plugin). I still have not been successful using Media Center on a regular basis. Somehow I always wind up waiting or rebooting or dealing with some quirk. So I just use the native OS and other tools.

For the most part of the quote I agree - even today!

In my personal opinion vista is a pile of garbage... I let myself be pursuaded and upgraded 1 of 3 media centers in the house from XP MCE to Vista. Vista is the only one that VERY frequently freezes for extended periods of time.... we are talking 5+ minutes.

It has poor performance whenever dealing with networked files from the other 2, and for my money... don't install vista until a SP3 is out if you can avoid it.

While everyone else is focused on making applications lighter, faster and better, Windows media center seems to consistently become slower, heavier and not get any cool features... They added some things that wmay very well be nice, but nothing groundbreaking in my opinion, except for making it harder to build plugins with broad appeal....

It puzzles me why (regarding user experience) MS would move the old ALT+TAB to WIN+TAB, and implement a stack of windows in 3D...... what does that accomplish beside getting MS kickbacks money from the hardware manufacturers.


--DC

I have hundreds of data DVDs that I want to copy to hard drive. Can any disc-changer do this? Thanks.

Does anyone else have issues with their changer not reading burnt discs?

I'm getting ready to test a product I have been working on and would like to find an XL1B owner (perhaps even someone doing business in the Media Center space) to hear about the product and subsequently test it...

Before anything else it would require signing a NDA.

If this sounds like something for you please contact me.

--DC

Hi All,

I'm trying to get my 3 XL1B's moved over from my MCE2005 machine to my new Vista Premium machine.

Using the info in this thread I've got My Changer and I can see all 463 discs, but no My DVD's. (I installed PX, Media Changer Utils, and Click2DVD)

Can anyone give me a hand getting My DVDs?

Thanks,
Ken

Ken,

I had a hard time getting Vista to play nice...go back to post #639...

Fran

I would be interested in the results of your own research. What have you found out about the matter (in this forum and elsewhere). After your research, what questions or issues do you still have?

Hey ranz, just following up. I think I delivered everything I promised you. You can PM me if there are still issues. I tried to keep my word.

I PICKED UP A BUNCH OF THESE AS THE PRICE FELL FROM SEVERAL RETAILERS INCLUDING SONY. I HAVE 3 WITH WARRANTY. NUMEROUS OTHERS W/O. ALL NEW IN BOX. I WILL DEFER FROM POSTING PRICING UNTIL I GET FEEDBACK AS TO IF THIS IS SOME KIND OF POSTING VIOLATION. GOOD LUCK TO ALL IN FINDING THEM. THEY ARE GREAT MACHINES THAT WERE AHEAD OF THERE TIME AT PRICES NO ONE COULD AFFORD.

ADD VOICE CONTROL TO THEM USING MEDIA CENTER COMMUNICATOR. ONE IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ANOTHER PRODUCT AHEAD OF IT'S TIME.

Yup, just like the CAPSLOCK key?

i'm always amazed at the importance people place on capitalization.
perhaps they spend too much time in chat rooms and forums like these.

does it detract from the message?
does it matter?

let me guess?
it's considered "shouting"

WHATEVER.......

yea, i'm lazy, i admit it. but some of us don't type well and all caps saves lots of time and i could argue, it looks better.

wasted enough time on this........ maybe i'll go turn a wrench or shoot some hoops.

i wish the teacher would have let me advance the filmstrip all those years ago. maybe then i would have understood the importance of capitalization.

i won't let it happen again.

WOW... someone got really bent out of shape..

I think the primary reason people don't like it is because its much harder to read. You would also never communicate in a similar fashion in business. Try sending an email out like that and see what happens.

Does anybody know if such a solution exits? Thanks.

Anyone tried using the VGP-XL1Bx in Europe? I just got mine today from some guy on Ebay, and I'm wondering if it can handle 240V or if I need to get a transformer.

The box sais 120V, but this site, sais 100-240, the dudes over at Sony said it "should" work aswell, but I won't try it untill someone can confirm if it really does.

What is a "solution"? The VGPXL1B1/2/3 has a standard DVD/RW drive which of course can handle CD/DVD data disks. And we have software (mediachanger) which can control it. All you need to do is load a data disk and copy it, then the next, then the next ...

If by solution you mean somebody typing in a script something like:

mediachanger mount slot 0 changer0
xcopy p:\\*.* d:\\myfiles\\
mediachanger unmount changer0
mediachanger mount slot 1 changer0
xcopy p:\\*.* d:\\myfiles\\
mediachanger unmount changer0

etc. ....

Then I guess the answer is no, unless you create such a script or use mediachanger/GUI in Scanbatch mode to sequence the mounts for you. Put the xcopy commands into Scanbatch.bat.

Did you try the user's manual or the support site? There is usually very explicit voltage requirements in the owner's manual.

I can't find any info in the manual, their website sais 120-240, but the drive itself only sais 120, so I don't know what info to trust, but I solved it by modding a 240 to 440 transformer.

Has anyone been successful at getting DVFab to recognize this drive?

I can get the mediachanger program to successfully access the device. Are there any updated drivers or settings I can change in Vista Ultimate to possibly get this to work with DVDFAB. The program definitely is accessing the device but gets hung up and locks up the program. I have made sure that no other programs are running as well.

I am new to DVDFab and installed a trial a little over a month ago without ever trying it and it expired. I then needed the software for a project and purchased the latest version assuming it would work. I plan to use it in an automated ripping process using Cinemar's software and my Sony XL1B DVD changer.

Anyways, when I boot up DVDFab on my vista machine the box labeled SOURCE gets stuck at the message "Searching Media." without ever acquiring a source, despite having 2 functional DVD drives with media loaded. If I log in to this computer via remote desktop, I see a different message in the source box: "Please insert DVD disc or choose DVD folder/image file."

I have 2 DVD drives, a regular Sony DVD drive and a Sony changer XL1B. The Target box recognizes my drives as:
1) E:\\[SONY CD-RW CRX300E KYS2 (Idle)]
2) F:\\[MATSHITA DVD-RAM SW-9584 B104 (Firewire)]

Device 1 is also a DVD drive and device 2 is my Sony XL1B.

I have a DVD movie in both drives that will successfully play in windows media player. I have followed StormJumpers guide to uninstall the old program and used CCleaner to clean the registry and re-install DVDfab without any success. I do not have any other DVD copying software on this machine. I am unsure on what steps to do next to try and get this to work.

Re DVD Fab hanging searching for media... I have the same problem. If I use Device Manager to disable the Changer, DVD Fab comes up just fine and reads the DVD in my single-disk RW unit. I also tried it once with the Changer powered down, and DVD Fab worked fine. So, it looks like it is definitely related to the firewire/changer. I've googled for solutions and found nothing. Not having the changer available won't help you, however.

Beware, if you follow the same convoluted path I did to recover from the Changer-still-on hang, it will crash Vista and then upon reboot and restart of VMC with MyMovies2, make MyMovies2 think it has zero movies in the database. Bummer. Backup was my friend.

If you find a fix, please post it here. Thanks.

So if DVDFab fails to work with this changer, what are others using to rip backups to a HDD under Vista?

shizzle,

I have played with the older version of your program and could never figure out all the features. Now I have downloaded the new version and it has even more. Do you by chance have something that describes what each of the settings mean in the scheme of things? I apologize if I sound a bit ignorant, but I would like to leverage what you have done to it's fullest extent.

Thanks.

Hi,

I am trying to use an XL1B with Vista 32 bit. I've had various success, but my current problem is that when I turn on the changer, it shows up twice in Device Manager as:

Sony UNKNOWN MODEL IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device
Sony VGP-XL1B IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device

Any ideas?

I'm using a bactch file I wrote to mount / delay six minutes / unmount the my cds while Windows Media Player is running and opened to the rip tab. It barely worked for the first batch of about 40 disks, but now that I've loaded about 80 disks, it doesn't work at all.