Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 328

If i used them, ill post it. I have a infrared thermometer that i might try to see if it gets hotter..... but since i manage to get one from your approve list, a new HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 HDP725050GLA360 (0A35415) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB... im not sure yet, i might just sell the 7K1000C.

I installed a Hitachi 7k1000.C Series drive (HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive) in my 2160A about a month ago. It has performed flawlessly so far.

The reason I chose this drive was due to the fact that it was a single platter and the power specifications closely matched the original 160GB drive.

Thanks for sharing your thoughs on it , now you making me wanna keep them .

I have nothing but good experience with Hitachi on my laptop Travelstar 7K500 500GB, pretty reliable, run cooler than most drives, and preforms really well, probably the best hdd for laptops atm. So i kinda want to keep them.... decisions....

Would be interesting to see what does the 513 is using for the 320gb hdd, as the old P7k500 seems to be getting replaced with this new series. Maybe someday an owner upgrading their drive can post it.

Just a headsup... Amazon is also apparently selling MAGNAVOX H2160MW9 HDD and DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner $200 free shipping, i probably would have gone this way over the refurb as now the difference is only $40, but its already on the way, so in case anyone is interested.

Did any one notice the refurbished price here?

Does anyone know whether the 2160 can be made region free? Thanks

I recorded a movie on Starz Edge recently on my 2160A but when I pull it up in the Titles menu, there's a "crossed out" disc icon beside it. The movie plays fine but I assume I won't be able to burn an archive DVD 'cuz there's now a "copy once" flag in that file??

I was wondering, is there any way to fool it into playing from the hard drive and recording it onto the DVD in real time? I could put the T.B.C. into that loop to remove the flag.

It's not a big deal since the movie comes back around soon and I can hook up my T.B.C. then and it should remove the flag but I was curious.

You mean to say that some folks are still playing DVDs on their Philips and Magnavox HDD/DVD recorders? YIKES!

Didn't Dirty Harry ask "Why would someone go and do a thing like that?"

Something about the QP and size @ dubbing in this awesome machine:

From a 3:08 min record, this is was what I found (All was done in HQ and in Real Time Dub)

L1 to DVD = 203,38 MB or 231.254.144 Bytes (HQ)

DVD to HDD = will need to extract the HDD to know? (HQ)

HDD to DVD = 206,75 MB or 216.793.088 Bytes and 3:09 min (HQ)

So, the dubbing added 1 second to the original file, and yes, QP was affected, mainly adding some pixeles to the images (visible using the Zoom)

Finally a test in High Speed Dub:

HDD to DVD = 206,31MB or 216.334.336 Bytes and 3:10 min

Oddy to me (maybe is a codec thing?) if you watch the files using VLC media player the time displayed is:

2:49 min
2:50 min
2:51 min

So, what was the object of this test? I only wanted to know if this DVR could make 1:1 copies of material that you have recorded in other DVDs (like a PC)

Until now, the 2160A doesn't seem to do that.

PD: Anyway, I'll try to extract the HD from the 2160 and see what is the size of the RAW files with a PC, but is that possible?

I don't see why it would make a difference which drive was used to do the recording, but I did use my DVDR3575 to record a program to its HDD from its HDD.
It has been quite some time, but this is the way I recall it going. I monitored the DVDR3575 using HDMI. I connected patch cables from the line Out to the Line in. That is all I needed since I did not have any copy guard issues with the program I was experimenting on. Actually, I have never seen a copy guard on my OTA recording with my DVDR3575, DVDR3576, or recently acquired J&R refurbished H2160A.

A major aside:

The Refurb was orderd about 9:30PM MDT on June 1 (I did let it get pretty close to the end of the $15 off deal), and was received on June 8, 2010. It came well packaged in a sturdy brown box with bubble wrap inside and and external plastic wrap. The manual was commercially printed with a Reconditioned Product sticker and "Batteries Not Included" stamp. The Remote and cables appeared to be new. The unit looked great, but it did have quite a bit of use.
Skip 079 showed:
HDD power Hours 1213
Skip 321 showed:
DVD-WR 0:00
DVD-RD 367:39
CD 0:01
I think the Refurb serial Number sticker has covered the original manufacturing info. It came with the original A firmware, which I have not bothered to update. I have only been using DVD+RWs, so I just have to initialize or erase them on L3, which is no big deal. So far I have not detected any problems with the unit.

Finally, back to the original topic:
I scheduled a recording from the Line In to the HDD for a minute or so in the future. I believe the screen went to noise when that recording started, so it would have been good to set the volume of the TV very low, in advance. I then went to the menu, and started playing a program previously recorded on the HDD. As I recall, there was trash at the start of the recording. I believe when the recording initially started, the Line out was playing the signal on Line in, which was a feedback loop, but when I went to the menu, it started recording the menu activity, and when the program started playing, it recorded the program successfully. Since it was just a test, I only scheduled a few minutes of recording, and deleted it immediately, but I am sure I could have edited any junk from the beginning and end of the new recording.
I may not have all the details exactly right(It has been a while, and the memory is not what it used to be), but I think this is very close to what happened. If some one tries this on a DVDR3575 with different results, I can repeat my test.

Thx to you wajo, maybe you must add: "also a DVD recorded in the same 2160". Probably this was made to avoid copy lights issues. That's what we call realistic expectations.

In other news... here are some candids from inside my 2160 and its HD.

The bad news are, I don't have a free SATA slot on my PC, so I need to buy a SATA-USB adapter, so I kindly ask: is the data on the HD windows / linux compatible (FAT-NTFS-ETC)? I'd like to know before spend some $$$

Thanks for your response. Not a big deal for this recorder. Thanks to you, I am so happy that I purchased it. Just love it so I am not going to use it for anything except for recording.

Do you know if it is possible to make a Sony DVD/VCR SLV-D370 into region Free? I figure if anyone knows, it would probably be you. Thanks

Thanks, yes I know about that site and it sucks that it doesn't have anything for my player.

Sorry if I missed it --

Does the Phillips lose record timer settings on power failure (like the Magnavox does)?

I searched the thread and found that if 2 recordings are set to start at the same time, the first one on the list will have priority but that doesn't fit my situation.
I have a Monday to Friday 5am to 6am recording. I added a 3:30am to 5:30am movie recording and got the overlap message.
The Monday to Friday is first on the list, but the 3:30am is scheduled to start sooner.
How will this playout? Do I have to cancel the Monday to Friday to get the movie to record?
Thanks
Grant

Had a dubbing aberration last night with my fairly new 2160A:

I high speed dubbed a previously recorded (SP) 2 hr. program from the HDD to DVD and then finalized it; all went as normal with no power surges that I'm aware of.

I then tested it on another recently purchased cheapo Mag (Funai) player and it played perfectly. I tried to burn 3 copies of it on my PC using Nero but got a message "Disc Unreadable" or some-such. I tried it in a 3 yr old Toshiba player and it tried to play but the audio & video was choppy before it froze. The disc was one of a spindle of Taiyo Yuden 8x +R's which until now have all worked perfectly on all mine & my friend's & family's players they have been tried on.

I then re-dubbed/finalized with another one of the same spindle of discs and it played fine on all players and the PC copying worked perfectly.

Was it most likely just a bad disc? I looked at it with a magnifying glass in strong light but didn't see any flaws. Nuttin' to worry 'bout??

How about a fingerprint that deposits skin oils on the writing/reading surface?

CitiBear goes into some detail in this post:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...7#post17032997

Discs can be bad without actually looking bad.

I've installed the 500GB 7K1000.C series HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 on the H2160A.

NOTE:

- I did NOT need the #2 Pozidrive screwdriver. All screws were Philips.
- The Warranty sticker is still intact.

Going through the procedure one more time, just like when I installed the P7K500 on the H2160 before:

- Power off, unplug all cables, and let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes.

- Remove the top cover (2 screws on the sides, 5 on the back).

- Gently lift the ribbon data cable that was taped (double side) from the top of the hard drive.

- Remove 3 screws from drive mounting bracket (that holds the bracket to the motherboard).

- Lift the drive and remove the electrical tape holding the SATA adapter to the drive mounting bracket.

- Slowly unplug the SATA adapter from the old drive, and lay it down gently onto the mother board.

- Remove the old drive from the mounting bracket (4 screws). It's a little bit tight, I laid the drive down and hold it with one hand and use the other hand with the screwdriver to unscrew them.

- Remove the ground contact from the old drive.

- Attach new drive to the drive mounting bracket (if you forgot which way is which, you can tell by looking for where the electrical tape was taped to the bracket, it should be aligned at the new drive connector where the SATA adapter is to be plugged in).

- Attach the ground contact to new drive.

- Plug in the SATA adapter (you can't plug it in the wrong way, there is only one way to plug it into the drive connector)

- Use a piece of electrical tape and tape the SATA adapter to the drive mounting bracket.

- Attach the drive mounting bracket to motherboard, like it was before with 3 screws.

- Gently press the data cable onto the new drive (same double side tape)

- Put back the cover, and install all screws.

- Plug in the RF coax IN/OUT cables, HDMI, and power cable.

Checking the installation and format the new drive:

- Powered up. The TV tuner was working, every settings was retained, except the clock and all timer programs.

- Reset the clock manually.

- Pressed SKIP 079 to check HDD status and connection. Every thing was normal. Pressed OK to start formatting the drive.

- Now this is the interesting part: the drive was used in a Linux system for about 150 hours. This drive therefore was formatted as EXT3 on that system. It did not take any time at all for SKIP 079 to format it (2 seconds), just like it was a new drive. And it powered itself off after the format operation.

- Powered it on and took a look at the HDD menu. All grayed out as expected (we know it is not usable until after the first recording). Pressed the Record button to do a short recording, stopped it and checked the HDD menu. It's now available.

- Using the Info/Display button to check, the HDD recording mode was SP 206 Hours 54 minutes. Success :-)

I can't figure out why you would not be able to duplicate my results, but I just did a retest.

My test recorder was a Philips DVDR3575 with the original firmware.
The connected TV was a Vizio VX32L.
The TV was fed from the DVDR3575 HDMI output.

1. The Drive was set to the HDD.
2. I connected YWR AV OUT on back to YWR AV IN on back and got only black/hash when tuned to E1 input.
3. I switched the DVDR tuner to a live channel, which was displayed on the TV.
4. At 6:52PM MDT I pressed TIMER and scheduled a recording for 6:55PM to 7:05PM of the E1 input.
5. I exited TIMER function, and the live broadcast was again displayed on the TV.
6. At 6:55PM the TV was displaying hash, and the recording was active.
7. I pressed TITLE, and the normal menu of programs recorded on the HDD appeared, as well as the active RED DOT program #23.
8. I selected an existing program #22, and selected PLAY FROM START.
9. The TV displayed the recorded program.
10. I waited until after 7:05PM.
11. I pressed TITLE.
12. I had all the previous programs, and the RED DOT program #23 had become a completed 10 minute program.
13. I played the new program #23, and it started with hash, followed by the title selection menu process and the first 9+ minutes of the previously recorded program #22.
14. Program #23 was completely normal and could be edited as desired.

I don't see why the process cannot be used for any program on the HDD. It is just necessary to schedule a recording a few minutes longer than the program to be copied.
YMMV

Thank you for this excellent guide to the 2160. I just installed mine, I can see the "Setup" screen via HDMI on my flatscreen.

But when I tell press the "channel" buttons on the remote the unit switches inputs [i.e., L1-L2-L3] rather than changing channels. What am I doing wrong? The unit is connected via coaxial cable to my tv. I have also done a complete channel scan.

Perhaps relatedly, when I set my tv to "DTV" I don't see the setup screen or anything on channels 2, 3 or 4.

Thanks for any advice you can offer on this frustrating problem.

Cheers