Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 593

I have read and downloaded your post of instruction on the Mag 515. Question is on autostart. If you record a program does that alter the buffer memory? Let me tell you what I did and maybe you can tell me the correct procedure. I have Dir TV Sat. Recorded last half of 1 hr show on pbs; was watching show for a while and then decided to record show last half hour. thought I could pick up first 30 min. and record from autostart buffer later. the show started at 9pm and i started recording at 9:34. I started record and then saved 26min. of recording. autostart would not go back to 9pm. I could only go back to 9:34. I thought that I had 6 hrs or buffer to go back to. would you please explain the me what i didn't do or what I should have done. Evidently I don't understand the system. I'll admit that my electronic experience is limited but I have always enjoyed electronics! Thanks in advance! videonutwo

I've recorded from a DTV DVR to the Mag using S-video and it actually looks pretty good.

What you are missing is that fact that all DVD recorders are inherently SD devices. Nothing comes out of the Magnavox or any DVD recorder in HD -- it's all SD and depending on the recording speed could be a lot worse than SD. Whether you tell the Magnavox to upconvert the signal or you pass native 480i out and let your display do the upconversion is irrelevant. It's still all SD output.

DVD Recorders only accept 480i from their video inputs and if the tuner can tune an HD channel it immediately down-converts it to SD before it does anything.

If you want to view HD you need to connect your sat box (or sat DVR) back directly to your display the way you had it via HDMI or component and not view through the Magnavox.

I've recorded from a Pace HD STB via RWY and, while letterbox, it was still good quality and better than nothing.

The thread does bring up an interesting question though...is the upconvert circuitry only activated on DVD playback, or on HDD/live feed playback as well? I think that is the crux of the question he is asking, just doesn't know how to ask it.

Upconversion is valid at all times. Or should I say, you set the output with the remote HDMI button and the Setup menu option of Progressive ON/OFF.

I ship everything out at 1080p

This may have been the step this guy was missing, and why he is so disappointed in his pic quality coming from the Mag's HDMI output.

[quote=ericole;21485738]I tried again - same result. And I've verified that the DVDs are good - my wife burned one on our computer just a couple of weeks ago with no problem. This last failure was after I ran the Philips DVD cleaner disc on the unit. I also checked and there is NO dust on my DVD tray.

Have you tried recording directly to a DVD instead of the hard drive to see if that will work? If it does there may be something else going on in the dubbing process. If not it should default to the HDD or give you an error message to the effect there is no DVD in the drive. I've had recordings fail on my 3575 for this reason even though the recording drive specified was the HDD and it's supposed to default to the HDD if there is no DVD in place. Go figure--at least it's a rare happening.

You may end up having to try a hard reset if it looks like a software hiccup. Although I don't know how you can easily save the contents of your HDD.

Just remember, the display itself is built to upconvert everything it receives on any input to match the native screen resolution. A high end display will most likely have much better upconversion circuitry than a DVD Recorder or even a run-of-the-mill DVD player. Don't assume that sending a 1080p upconverted signal from the recorder is always going to result in the best PQ. You should try several settings and outputs, sending the signal as 480i and letting the display do the work, to determine what gives you the best PQ.

I wonder if this process would clear up my V515's pickiness with RW discs? Trouble is, +R is incompatible with my Pioneer 633, so I've never bought any, and I don't foresee any other reason ever to buy any. Might a +RW disc serve the same purpose?

Having already tried cleaning the laser with a swab and alcohol and having tried a cleaning kit, I just bought a small pack of DVD-Rs and I finally attempted the 987 procedure hoping it would fix my V2160A's inability to burn DVD+Rs (no problem with DVD+RWs). Alas, it didn't work (but I did discover that the V2160A will also not write to DVD-Rs). (My 515 has no problem writing to my DVD+Rs, regardless of quality). And I've tried the full quality spectrum of DVD+Rs. Both machines are refurbs and the V2160A's problem apparently pre-existed.

Jim

My 3576 will be getting a real workout this weekend. I just noticed that Hulu added 52 episodes of An Evening at the Improv to their selection.

Yes Antenna was selected ..... I have no cable nor satellite ...that's one reason I bought this to be able to pause channel I'm watching or record to HDD so I can time shift my life and blow by commercials. Get the screen coming up saying it is scanning channels but it seems to actually be doing nothing at all ....if I press DTV screen changes from 2 to 2. 1 and I also don't see the progress bar when trying to scan digital channels

And the same remote - although I know that some actually prefer the 513's.

mrmazda read through you link .... but it is a tangled tale .... bottom line is my units tuner may not work??? Send it back? Is that what ur saying ?

Disconnect the antenna and run the auto channel preset again. It should progress through all the analog and digital channels without anything hooked up to Ant In. If the scan doesn't make any progress at all without an antenna I would suspect a defective tuner.

I got my refurbished 513 from J&R today. So far everything seems to work. It came with a 515 manual.

It's not one of the lightly used Walmart returns though.
Manufactured Apr 2011
DVD WR 0:44
DVD RD 7:59
CD 0:00
HDD 1282
That's more HDD hours than my newest 2160A has and it's 2 1/2 years old. It would have had to be on all the time for 53+ days to get that many hours.

I'm a little confused about the firmware though. Skip 123 shows
E2S00UD
DTV-S 0X2B
FE R60_001_000
BE HD6A269727H1E
TT T5011RDU@5

Going by the firmware sticky this should be the new super firmware but I don't have the ability to title recordings or skip timer recordings.

I'm going to leave things alone for now so I can make sure everything works properly but i'll probably end up reverting to the 72A firmware and then update to 727H again to see if I get the missing 515 abilities.

727V gives you the ability to title timer recordings.

Don't agree, maybe it's a definitional thing. The Maggy will record for a 16:9 DAR, right (setting aside the DAR flag issue)?
AFAIK, 16:9 DAR is not SD.

scott s.
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Thanks Ken.F and wajo. Too many numbers and letters rolling around in my head.

More or less, since I don't know when you bought yours.