Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 558

Just want to report SuperFW 727V works great for my 500GB Mag H2160A. Thanks all

That'd be a throwback to the 3575/6 days which had a USB port for photo, video and MP3 playback which was cut out from the first Mag models.

I can see why they did this since divx/dvd players with a USB port (and sometimes even an SD card slot) are pretty common and cheap and what makes the Philips/Mag units unique in the marketplace is the ATSC tuner and DVD/HDD.

However on the same note I've been waiting *forever* for someone to release a cheap little sans memory MP4 recorder with a digital tuner. There's already been a few without a tuner for PSP/iPod recording with line in recording.

If Zinwell or somebody released something like this I bet it'd be the cheapest OTA PVR on the market (great selling point for ppl to cheap to pay for cable) and would sell like gangbusters.

Yup that's it, figured i would buy referb to save some money and mostly they are fine like my HP 17" laptop. That black coax cable looks to short to be usfull so i ordered 6' HDMI cable from Monoprice and i already have regular coaxil cables for antenna hookup. How does the firmware upgrade work since it's no wifi like my blue ray player? One thing the player was very cold so i let it stand on my entertainment stand for the night,. I have it under my Samsung Blue Ray player but would like to put spacer to rais it a little higher off my DVR, what would i use?

And yes i'm new to DVRs, but have owned many VCR's

I upgraded my 513 to 727V (now a V513?) Monday and I had my first glitch last night. While the V513 was recording via the timer I tried to turn it on to watch a pre-recorded show. The V513 ignored the power-on command. I didn't want to interrupt the recording, so I left it alone until the recording completed. Once the recording completed I had no problem turning the V513 on and accessing pre-recorded material.

While the V513 was recording the HDMI output was just a black screen.

120Gb & 160Gb. One was under $300 and the other was over $300.

Since a Intel OEM not retail box 320Series 600Gb is $1099.99
And a OCZ Talos R Series 800GB 3.5" SAS 6Gb/s MLC Enterprise Solid State Disk TRSAK352-0800 is $2,999.99 (Not even a more expensive SLC design!!)

I'm not seeing 3TB in the near future. For at least a few years I see SSDs being where speed beats price. As Boot Drives in conjunction with Traditional Data drive.
When we start seeing 1TB Flash Drives and at a reasonable price then a 3TB SSD becomes more likely.

Right Now a Kingston DataTraveler 310 DT310/256GB 256 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive. Kingston 310 DT310 256GB - $799 On Sale at tigerdirect
and $738.40 somewhere else. Not a bargain.

The other main use is in laptops where weight and speed and longer battery life is desired. HP has been touting one model that has up to 34 hours of run time on a charge. SSD, LED Screen Larger battery etc.

I just tried the same actions with a 515H. Power button gave me a red "NO", and stopping the recording asked me to confirm. Video was not affected at any time. More cosmic rays.

I've had that happen a couple of times on my 515. I "think" it happens when I leave the unit some place in the menu and forget about it and the timer kicks in.

Good move. By doing that, you permitted the MDR515 to reach room temperature slowly, allowing moisture inside the unit to evaporate over time, possibly preventing an electrical short on one of the units PC boards.


You could try some small "felt pads" (see picture below). They're about ¼ inch thick and available in most 99¢, Dollar Tree or hardware stores. (They would be placed under your BluRay players feet.) You could stack 2 together for additional clearance, if needed. A walk through your local hardware store should also give you some more good ideas.

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Hi all. I appreciate any help anyone can give on my problem - and if my issue has already been resolved, please feel free to direct me to a previous page in this thread as I haven't had time to read the whole thing (I am trying!) I'm not very technologically-advanced so the more dumbed-down the better.

I've had the 2160 for 3 years now and I love that machine. It hasn't given me one single problem -- this after burning probably 5000 discs on it. I figured it was time to add to the family and take some of the burden off it so I just bought a 515 to go with it. The 515 worked great at first and I figured I wasn't going to have any problems with that either. 2 months later and... ugh. The issue I'm having is with the audio when going through DTV. At first there were just some little pops and clicks that I thought nothing of. Then one day when I'm checking a timed recording I made the audio was completely shot to hell. All static-ridden like you're listening to a radio station and there's terrible interference. I had to trash the recording. And now I can't use the machine to record DTV anymore. The crackling is on all the DTV channels (the severity of it, much like radio interference, is not consistent) but when going through Channel 3 to the set-top box (which I don't because I'm not happy with the picture and sound quality when doing that) or through Line In, it's fine. No static at all. I retuned all the digital channels both through my TV and through the 515 and that is not clearing it up. I changed the coaxial cable and the HDMI cable. No luck. Note that I have a 2160 and a Philips 3575 both split on the same signal (I even tested them with the HDMI and coaxials that I took out of the 515) and DTV on them is fine. Did I get stuck with a lemon? Has anyone else had this problem? Is there anything I can do to fix it or should I just try to exchange it?

Thanks in advance.

I was thumbing through the manual and found a section on channel setting but didn't see anything about scanning for channels. How do you set the channels on this unit 515? Is there an auto scan like on TV?

I won't address the audio problem, because I'm a little unclear on exactly how you've got things hooked up. (You mentioned something about "going thru channel 3".)

As for the remotes, do you see anything on the Maggie remotes to suggest they can be set to a different set of IR codes? No? BINGO!

They don't do it. It's something we've wanted for several years because we want to use more than one Maggie in the same room without their remotes messing with both machines at the same time.

As for REPLACING your Philips remote...

You can get them for either $18 or $30.

Where?

Please go to page one of this thread, and scroll down in the first section of Wajo's first post, down to item 11 "Sellers and Support".

Scroll further down to where the model numbers of the Philips machines are listed.

I purchased a SATA to USB converter cable to hook up my HDD as external USB, but unless I connect the Power part of the Magnavox internal SATA Connector (15 PIN) the HDD is not recognized (using the SKIP 079 code).
The SATA to USB converter cable that I found don't use the Power SATA part of the connector - only the DATA SATA part, and it looks that Magnavox DVDRs use some of the Power Pins to check the presence of the HDD.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
Mario

My 515H in "off" mode switched. My V2160A in auto mode did not, so it's now off by 27 hours.

I use a harmony remote. One button turns on the TV, the receiver, and the 513, sets the TV to HDMI1, the receiver to HDMI2, and the 513 to HDD. It remembers the state of each component, so if the TV is already on it skips that step. There is a "Help" button on the remote in case the sequence didn't complete correctly. It runs through the sequence again, then asks a series of yes/no questions to see if sending a single command in the sequence will fix it -- 'is the TV powered on? is the Receiver set to HDMI2?'

I've been using the Harmony remote with the 513 for over a year and haven't had a problem. I'll try some dummy timer sessions and see if I can reproduce the problem. The shows on Friday did record correctly, I just couldn't get to a menu while they were being recorded. The V513's HDMI output was a black screeen.

Isn't the DST change a separate program not affected by any auto clock settings? I thought the DST change was supposed to work even if there is nothing connected to Ant In.

My 515 and V513 both changed correctly with auto clock set to manual (DTV FOX).

Sometimes my receiver doesn't switch to the correct input when using my Harmony remote. I think it's an inter-device delay problem that I haven't got ironed out yet. Is there any chance something like that happened?

BTW, don't use the Harmony to turn everything off during a manual recording. Timer recordings are not canceled by the power toggle signal but manual recordings are.

Yeah i been there just it's so long haven't looked through everything

Sorry I was a little vague. The unit with auto clock setting "off" switched as expected, the unit on auto and already getting bad time is now one hour worse as expected. Both have DST set "ON". On the bright side, I hear that my ABC channel may start having a good PSIP and SCTE-127. My cable company is having some reorganization pains, paring down to two locations from three. I may get a good clock channel soon.

I don't know how you do it.

Hi,
I had no problem connecting external 2.5" HDD using SATA connections. but when I tried using a SATA to USB adapter. when I type the SKIP 079 self check test code, I get the response:
SELF CHECK
HDD CONNECT STATUS: NOT FOUND

I tried two different SATA to USB adapters - none worked. Is there any compatibility issues between the Magnavox DVDRs and USB connectors ?
Any comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
regards
Mario

Wajo is VERY patient!

I go away for a month or two and all hell breaks loose! So, reading backwards, does this mean we can update our old 2160As with the new firmware and now we can have the equivalent of the 515's great titling capability? Yippeeee! I haven't downloaded it yet, as I want to read more to see if I need to do sequential updates ... but my three 2160s and I thank you!!!

I was planning to swap at least one HD. Should I change out the hardware first before using the firmware update, or doesn't it matter what order this is done in?

I've you've been doing some reading you should have noticed some of us have V2160As & V513s. We refer to them as such because we've upgraded them (directly or not) to the 515's 727V software.

When, or how often, you change HD doesn't matter.