Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 659

I posted this issue in another thread, but so far there has been no solution, so since this is the big Magnavox thread, I'm hoping someone here knows how to solve it.

this is a great remote for the price, with ( best i can tell ) ALL of the buttons fully programmable ( eg, recording IR commands from a source remote )...

i've bought 2 and they work fine for me... i use the ' P-up and P-dn' buttons as chapter buttons, and i use the 'blu' and 'red' buttons for the Skip Fwd and Skip Back functions. these make it most convenient for me to do my commercial edits.

only wish for this remote might be to have just a bit more space under the 'color' buttons so i could add some p-touch labels to describe them...

this remote is good for standardizing the various control buttons when one has both a Mag and a Philips machine as part of one's compliment...

i got so used to my 3576 remote that the mag remote seemed cumbersome searching for the equivalent keys for editing... after standardizing, i'm forcing myself to learn the positions, but at least they are the same for either machine...



rgds,
ron g

hi folks...

just a quick update on this. based on wajo's input, i figured i'd try a cheap attempt at cross polarization, using a pair of polarized ( polaroid ) sunglass lenses...

unfortunately, no-go... cross-pol does work for visible light, but the IR still makes it thru ... commercial IR polarizers are available, but way cost prohibitive...

for those really wanting to persue it further, the most likely best solution will either be IR to RF conversion, or to use a different wavelength altogether, such as something in the 850 to 900 nm range for the custom machine. or possibly go to the other end of the spectrum and implement UV instead of IR...

a suggestion was also made regarding visible light earlier in this thread, and possible use of filters for different colors. while i have not tested this, my guess is that there would not be sufficient range, although i could be wrong...

if i do anymore testing, i'll post over in the hi-tech thread...

rgds,
ron g

here's an interesting anomoly that i discovered when upgrading my 513 to the 727v super firmware... some may not have noticed this, or even experienced it, depending on how one sets up the clock after upgrade...

here's my sequence and what i discovered ( it really threw me at first )...

1 - do firmware upgrade ( regular procedure ) ( machine returns to factory defaults after this ).

2 - confirm auto-clock is off ( no physical changes, just view the entry )...

3 - confirm daylight savngs is on ( again, no physical changes, just view the entry )

4 - perform manual clock set procedure... ( change month, date, year )

5 - perform manual clock set... ( change hours, minutes, AM/PM )

6 - exit the menu and shutdown the machine....

while passing by the machine during the evening, i noted that the clock was displaying in ' 24 hour ' format, eg, at 8:15 PM, the clock was displaying ' 20:15 '

i turned the machine on, and all other time references were in standard 12 hour format, eg, 8:15 PM ...

i turned the machine off again, and the machine, once again, displayed the time in 24 hour format...

i turned on the machine again, and performed the clock set procedure, but only on the auto-clock and daylight savings portions, this time actually initializing the settings ( toggling them back and forth ).

after above, the machine now displays the time in 12 hour format after power down.

simple, but might throw folks off ( as it did me ) upon first observation...

rgds,
ron g

hi wajo et al...

a thought occured to me as i was typing the clock anomoly post...

perhaps the erratic ' skip ' behaviour could be related to an ' initialization ' issue, as i observed with the ' clock ' issue....

it could be that one needs to do 1 or more skip processes before all of the machine's memory locations get initialized to ' real values ' or some such thing...

just 2 cents worth, as i have yet to actually try the skip feature out...

i've experienced in the past with other computer related stuff, that folks writing software can be lazy about implementing such initialization within their software code, rendering these kinds of erratic ( and maddening ) behaviour; not really a bug, but major nuisance...

rgds,
ron g

Thanks, wajo. I'll give it another whirl. I'm pretty sure I followed all the original instructions to the letter, including resisting the temptation to go back into the clock menu and redoing a fresh VCR dub, but I don't remember if DST was off. It's certainly worth trying again, with your help.

It's a 515.

I found the scheduled recording that vaporized with the 2160A could be cured by just leaving the schedule menu (hence writing the data) before modification of any newly entered scheduled recording. With the addition of skip and pre-naming, modifications of a new item without leaving the schedule menu are probably more common these days.

I'm not exactly sure of what you mean by "auto-record*," but I'm in the midst of testing my 515 again. I've now gone into the clock menu and turned both Auto Clock and DST off. It's now unplugged, and I'm thinking to leave it that way at least overnight just to be sure. Tomorrow, without going into the Clock Menu, I'll try another fresh VCR dub, then a High Speed Dub to DVD.

*Does this refer to automatically recording something on TV, for example, as you watch it, so you can go back and "instant"-replay it, or is it something else?

DON'T say it. DON'T. Don't....

There were 3575s that worked?

Can't speak to the 3575s, but my 3576 is rock solid and more responsive than either my 513 or 515.

It looks like Walmart bumped up the on-line price on the SRP5107WM/17 to $12.98(+30%). I wonder if they spotted the traffic in this group.

I still think it is a great value. I bought my 1st for $12.98 and my 2nd for $10 at a different store. The price is now $12.98 at that store also.

I had been using the Walmart Philips 8 Device remotes in my Family Room and Master Bed Room, but I never even tried to set them up for my DVDRs. I thought trying to edit on those remotes would be a pain.

I have set up the SRP5107WM/17s to control the Family Room DVDR3576 and 2160A and the MBR DVDR3576 and the other regularly used equipment in both rooms. I like having the same keypad layout for editing on all 3 DVDRs. I believe I will soon get very comfortable with my layout.

I did hit a tiny issue. I tried to use the SAT and CBL buttons for my ancient Toshiba VCR, without success. Maybe I just wasn't patient enough during the scan. I did try the DVR/VCR button on the 2nd Remote when it was brand new, and that scan did work.

I didn't do a test, but I just lost ~6 seconds at the start of a weekly Closer recording on TNT that the skip persisted on. I edited it to skip before last Monday night's basketball game. Then tonight before I noticed that the timer should have fired 1 minute before program start and didn't, it did start, and I didn't quite get to the manual record button fast enough.

In the Family Room, I am already using TV(Philips 42PF7320) DVR(2160A) DVD(Sony DVD player) HD(DVDR3576) and AUX(Technics Tuner/AMP).

The only available buttons are SAT and CBL which is why I was hoping that I could use one of them for the VCR.

I may take another try at the scan with those buttons, but I suspect that may be a dead end. I could always learn the necessary keys, since I only want to use the VCR as a player for some pre-recorder tapes. I am OTA, and there aren't any analog stations left, and I wouldn't want to record any that did exist.

The P buttons seem to me to be natural chapter buttons - I don't see in your description where you put those?

My 2160 & 3576 are record&edit-only on an old spare-bedroom tube TV, so the volume rocker and for that matter the channel rocker serve no purpose. The TV gets turned on and off & swithed between the 2 device inputs, no other control is needed. Everything I record gets edited and dubbed to watch on the main setup downstairs - I have a Samsung player that can play unfinalized DVD+R's so no wear&tear on the 515 in that stack.

Having skip/replay on a nice big thumb-operable rocker like the 3576 remote is much better for me...

My usage is probably not typical. I dub 99% of what I record, and typically don't watch until much later so it has to be off-loaded from the HDD anyway. I have to do near-daily dubbing to keep the HDD's from filling up. If a new show looks like it might be good, I record the first season but don't waste time watching until I know it's good enough to survive cancelation. So this summer it looks like we'll be watching Revenge and Person of Interest but passing on Terra Nova and Prime Suspect, to name a few. Some others like Alcatraz and Missing are still iffy at this point. I had high hopes for Awake but it's looking like a lost cause. (I learned my lesson watching Rubicon in real time - what a waste.)

I've really enjoyed Person of Interest. It's somewhat far fetched but after all it is TV and not reality. I liked Terra Nova too and was sorry to see it not renewed. I think it had a lot of possibilities.

I liked Prime Suspect and it was getting better. Pity. I watched every episode and enjoyed them. I knew it wasn't going to make it, so what. All shows end, sooner or later.

When you only watch what the public or the Wonks at the network like you are missing many great shows.

Rubicon, Whatever that is, was a waste because you didn't like it or because others didn't like it or because it was cancelled?

It really sounds like you decide what to watch based on the G.A.P. and not on your likes.

G.A.P. (Great American Public)

Cheers

To get closer to the thread, 500gb does allow you to timeshift a whole season. Even 30 episodes at HQ leaves you space, since some shows are not thread based. The old L&O was like that. The 515H can hold so much content, I boxed up my DVD+RW disks and just use the HDD anymore.

I do agree with you though. If I like a major network show it will probably only last one season. They all keep trying to find the next Gunsmoke or M.A.S.H. and kill anything that costs too much. That's sad.

Been a few months since I was here and bam, it's almost up to 700 pages!!!!!
Wow! Also missed the news about the Maggy 515 being discontinues and now Walmart today, just raised the price of the 513 to $279 when it was $249 yesterday. Sheesh, I blink and the whole thing changes!!!!
Mickboy

No Terra Nova ! Darn, I might as well sell my 515

So frustrating. Actually had the better half watching it with me. which is not easy with prime time Sci Fi.

I really think there should be a law where if you start a show that should have a completion you should at least have one more episode to complete it.

Mars left me hanging a few years ago that way.

But no one listens to me anyway. Typically if I like a show it will be dropped.

At least Fringe is still out there but the better half wont watch it, to creepy or confusing or something like that.

Maybe this is why the Funai is not building a replacement - no shows to record ;(

That was the same argument Paramount used to cancel the original Star Trek - no good stories to sell. That worked well too.