Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 555

No reason it wouldn't, but the available additional speed would be entirely wasted, not to mention the price premium.

I knew I should have bought more than two WD Elements 2TB drives on Black Friday last year at Target. I haven't seen that $70 price since, and now it's a pipe dream.

I had not read this forum in several weeks. Now I see that I no longer have to suffer from "515 envy". Thanks to the great people who post here, I am ready to apply the V upgrade to my 2160A tomorrow. Special thanks to Bizarro_Stormy for being the first to take that leap into the void, and prove that the upgrade works.

EDIT: done, without a hitch (if you don't count the momentary panic until I remembered the "unplug for 30 seconds" step).

The Mag 515 appears to have one major flaw: It won't allow you to dub DVD-R media from other machines onto the 515 HDD.

If I'm wrong someone tell me.

When I have a Ritek DVD-R recorded with media from an RDRHX715 in the machine and press dubbing I get the red circle with the line through it on the lower right.

When I have a DVD-R in the machine with media from the same RDRHX715 and press rec mode, nothing happens.

I've tried it with both the MCR on and off. Nothing.

OK...correction, I THINK it's working! Thanks!!!!!

I can get Sony media to dub onto mag HDD now.

Now the issue is why does anything I record from this magnavox on a DVD-R show up as 10 titles listed when I put it in any other machine or computer I own?

Never seen that before, weird.

I also need to remember that the HX715 is a 6+ year old machine.

Just put the same disc in a newer panasonic player and a newer lap top and the magnavox menu popped up no problem.

Update to latest firmware without a problem. With the more accurate time, I might switch with the 515H. But not today. I'm going to play with the clock first.

That was back before graphics became 3D, and media was artful, not digitized.

It probably would work however at over $1000 for a 600Gb SSD and given that it is writes that wear out a SSD.

In the Magnavox it could work but in a Satellite DVR where for example it is always buffering two data streams it would wear out fairly quickly.

But I'm using DVD-R Never use + anything.

I'm waiting for ship-to-store of my 515 from Wally World to supplement my 3576 that has served me well over the last 2-3 years...1856 HDD hours and 90 hours of DVD-WR. Since I have a satellite DVR and won't be connecting an OTA antenna or using the built-in tuners in any way, I should have no problems with any freeze problems. I'll keep everyone posted.

I thought The Magnavox only buffered when on?

Mine for example is only on when I'm watching a recording or a timer is working.

The Older Philips that I re-purposed for my brother when the device he was using to watch Basic cable died does give him more channels since it does tune the Clear QAM channels. I still had the manual for it too.

These Units do seem to be pretty reliable from my experience. Knock Wood.

I'm hoping that the rising drive prices don't kill these off.

I've been watching drive prices. The price of the MDR515 is $285 in Amazon.com. Was it always that high at Amazon?

You should get a Sony DHG. The drive and fan are on whenever power is applied. One of mine has 5.2 years of runtime, one 4.1 years. Yet they are silent. We should count our blessings with the Funai. It still makes me wonder why it draws 5w when in standby.

I never thought of that. Thanks.

I must be special... I posted last week that I upgraded my 3-year old 2160a (which had never had any problems with freezes or timekeeping), and the next day it froze while searching for a time signal (I pulled the plug after about 20 minutes). After that, on advice (or hunches) from some other posters, I changed my time-setting channel from an analog to a digital.

All seemed well for a few days. I recorded and replayed a couple of programs. I got my new 515 remote today (yay! little changes make it much better for me.) and went to watch a recording I made last night. After a bit, I noticed that the timer display was stopped at about 3 minutes in (even though the recording was still playing), and none of the remote buttons worked. First suspect was the new remote of course, but none of the buttons on the front panel worked either, and swapping batteries around convinced me that the remote wasn't the issue.

I didn't have the patience to wait till the recording ended to see what happened. I pulled the plug briefly, and when I replugged it, I saw military time (I remember other posters mentioning that, but I'd never seen it before) - but still no response to any buttons.

Okay, unplugged it for 5-10 minutes, but when I replugged it, I didn't hold down the power button. After that, it searched for and found a time, and the only thing missing were my timer settings.

I set up my timers yet again, and based on vague memories of various postings here, this time I set the auto-clock to OFF. We'll see if that makes any difference...

Am I the only one who's having NEW problems after applying the new firmware to an older machine? And has anyone experienced a freeze while a recording is playing? I don't remember ever hearing about that, but maybe I wasn't paying attention because MY unit didn't have the problem

Anyone have any other suggestions? I keep seeing posts about successful upgrades and I wonder what's different for me.
Thanks!

I did the upgrade this morning. I have set my V2160A:

Auto clock - see if it still hates PBS
Daily record CBS NTSC at 11:30pm.

I know some SCTE-127 data makes it through. If it locks up I will be the first to make a post. Tomorrow I will set my clock to manual on my other PBS channel. Then I'll try Fox, ABC and whatever. I have 26 NTSC channels. Honestly, my only NTSC selection is when doing these tests.

You could add your location to your profile under the UserCP tab and mention cable/OTA and if cable: who. Others with your problem are probably keeping track of this issue.

You are wrong.


Is there any safe way to donwgrade the firmware of a V2160A?

I _think_ I still have the download from the firmware I applied a couple of years ago for the finalizing bug but I'm not quite there yet... I'll wait and see how things go with all the clock settings "off".

I wonder if I'm having these issues because I mistakenly applied the 2160/513 version of the firmware before I applied the 515 version... but I'd think there would have been other users who had done that (but maybe not on the same day).

As for location, I'm on the east coast, with a major cableco, which (for now) still provides the locals in digital unencripted, plus the "basic cable" package in analog (no stb needed). Sorry I'm not too technically adapt as far as ntsc/atsc and I can never remember which is composite and which is component so I hope you'll be patient - I know analog vs. digital and red/yellow/white vs red/blue/(I forgot what other color). I'm just a step above a vcr user but in my house I guess the proverbial one-eyed person is the king among the blind