Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 508

Just think what would happen if they put a significant number of these units on the store shelves.

Probably not much. It would not be well promoted, sales staff would not be educated on the features, and the Walmart shopper demographic isn't there for the electronics.

That said, I'm very impressed by the sales. At the current rate, why make a newer model unless is it significantly more advanced? We can only wish.

I'm ready for the HD version. Think it will ever come?

No.

Why not? Seems like that was on the wish list.

No.

Maybe better audio via DD 5.1 since most of that exists for DVD support and Tivo never sued anyone over better sound. I would suggest you not try the BV/ZAT-980H either. The PHD-eZ1 is vaporware.

Be happy the 515H exists. I surely am. I also have a 2160A with a 500Gb HDD, so I have a backup that works just fine.

I also have the same lockup problem with my second 513unit as airguy did. Audio video starts to cut out then a few minutes later and the unit goes into a hard lockup. I'm not sure if it only happens on power up or not.

Do the other non 5xx units not have this problem. It seems unbelievable that a simple poweron procedure with two units would cause such a hard lockup. I'm not willing to go through what appears a month long troubleshooting effort like air guy did to try and fix it, I'd rather just find one that works.

Yes.. I have this problem and this is the second unit it has occurred on. I am in north Dallas, tx.

Yes I have had the same problem with the 513s. I'm wondering if the 2xxx and the 3xxxx models are bug free. I'm waiting on a 3 hour!! Reset mode now to see if I can live with remembering to switch to FTC on power up. However most of my recording/watching will be done on analog so if the recording power on procedure also locksup this one has to go back as well.

Wajo thanks... We'll see. They been looking at it it appears for over 3 months. Is tough to make changes for only a few users.

Have any of the other models here exhibited the same behavior? I just want a VCR replacement that's rock solid.

Yes, I have a freeze problem on one of my 515s. I'm lucky to go a week without having to do a soft reset. I have had only one freeze with my other 515, when I was first setting it up. It is always set to L1 so it may have something to do with being on an analog channel.

It's a real pain to have to redo the timer programs. No use spending any time naming a planned recording when you have to redo them every week.

I am still pondering if this is the right set for me. I have an older 26" crt hdtv, which has component and a DVI input. I currently have one of those HDMI-DVI cables, which I could use, if need be.

I have read that this unit will upconvert dvd's to 1080p through HDMI. Will it also upconvert OTA recordings?

Will this unit only upconvert via HDMI, or will it do it through component as well?

Being that my set is limited to 1080i, do you think I will get the benefit of any upconversion, or do you think I would be stuck with 480i?

TIA for all your help.

Pretty sure my 3575 does upconverting through both outputs so yours should be the same if you get one. It will upconvert to the limit the TV can use as far as options but the conversion my TV does looks better then what the unit can do so I set it to 480p and let my TV do the work. I have a 34" Toshiba cinema series 34HFX84 CRT set myself and it does 1080i max as well so you should be fine, mine looks great.

Thanks for the input. It looks like it might be a moot point, though. I swapped out my Tivo HD from the other room, and hooked it up to my crt via the HDMI-DVI cable, and I could not get the tv set to recognize a digital signal from the DVI port. It keeps saying "searching for signal." I can get hd from the Tivo through component cables, but DVI seems to be a bust for me.

I think my set is a cheaper, older model that does not do internal upconverting. At least, I do not see that option anywhere in the menu. So, if the Mag does not do any upconverting through the component output, then I may have to choose something else.

Does this mean there is a new model of dvd recorder coming out?

Wajo, thanks for all your help. Considering my situation and the limitations of my set, would I be correct in assuming I would be limited to standard 480i if I were to use the Mag's component outputs?

I want to run an idea past the experts here.

I just got a new car that has a 10gb Music Register built in. It will record WMA and MP3 files from audio CD's and, I think, from the same DVD+RW format the 515 prefers.

I also have Comcast with a bunch of commercial-free music channels.

I have not tried using the 515 yet for recording to discs, only to the hard drive for time shifting, so no experience here recording to disc.


I am wondering a couple things:

1. If I record a few hours of music from the Comcast channels to the 515 hard drive without sitting there starting and pausing the 515 to weed out the songs I don't want, can I then go back, insert an appropriate blank disc, then continually start and pause the hard drive, recording only the songs I want to keep from the hard drive to the blank disc?

2. If the above works, what would be the file type of the songs on the disc? If it's not WMA or MP3, apparently it won't download to the car's Music Register.

Even if this works, I have a feeling recording music from Comcast this way would result in one very long track or title of all the songs I save to disc, rather than each song being it's own track as seen by the car's Music Register or separate Title as seen by the Maggie. But if all this works, that's OK since, in essence, I'd have a long album of all the songs I want in one track, which could then be placed into it's own custom named folder in the Register. Maybe.

Any thoughts, gentlemen?

I was thinking along the same lines. If there was a method to reset without losing program timers, this freeze issue would be a lot easier to live with. Be nice if the timer program was on the HDD, permanent like the recordings.

I have tried reconnecting after about 10 minutes without result. I will test longer intervals the next time it freezes. My freeze prone unit is now on its eighth freeze free day! But it won't last. The first indication of corruption is the clock going to the 24 hour mode and mine did yesterday. It seems this freeze-free interval is the longest I have had. I've tried to keep the unit tuned to a digital channel but that hasn't always been possible because of some analog channel timer recordings.

Another experiment I may try is recording a digital channel or L1 for a minute immediately after an analog channel recording so that the unit always turns off while tuned to digital or L1.

The real stumbling block is DRM and the TV/Movie studios.