anyone have either emerson dvd recorder from Walmart and do you like it?

Have any of you guys that have upgraded to x8 noticed any types of glitches yet?

 

Where can you find COPY_THIS I did a search on e-bay and nothing came up.

 

I searched SIMA Copy This on EBAY a couple of weeks back and 4 or 5 results came up...to bad for me that the shipping to Canada was outrageous, like c'mon 20-bucks for P& P....but try using SIMA as the search

 

YES there is one MAJOR GLITCH!!!! Don't continue recording on any disc you have already recorded on in VR mode before the upgrade...it will corrupt the ifo and your disc will be reset,(you can still recover the data using isobuster pro,as I had to do for one disc)be very careful.

 

I have a question about erasing disk.
If you record several things on a RW Disk, can you erase only part of it? Say you have two movies on a disk, and decide you don’t want to keep one of them. Is there a way to erase just one, and record something else in it’s place. The only thing I have been able to do is completely erase the disk and start over.

Thanks

 

I know you can get SIMA Copy This at BEST BUY. It costs 59.99.

Just saw it at the store the other day.

Go to Pricegrabbers and type in "SIMA COPY THIS".

It will come up with about 6 online shops where you could by it for less. However, there is a place called COMP-U-Plus that sells it for 19.99. I am skeptical about that price. Must be refurbished. No one sells it that cheap so its gotta be cheap for a reason.

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=2406623&search=sima+copy+this

http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?refer=pricegrabber.com&id=1003365556

 

on a RW just go to setup
then disk
then original
then edit
then delete title
I use RW's all the time to record shows I miss and only save certain ones I like.
Make sure you delete under original and not playlist. Playlist only removes access not the file itself.

 

The software you posted DOESN'T work, the zip file extracts fine, but the win rar file inside of the zip file DOES NOT WORK. Is there anyway you can post it, just the rar file alone, or whatever's inside of it ALREADY extracted? Doesn't anybody have this file already extracted that can be posted???
Can aybody help me out????????

 

The Cue/ISO image inside the zip is NOT compressed. It is an image. Burn it.

 

It's not the CUE file that's compressed (I know what) it's the OTHER file (not counting the notepad file) that can't be extracted (with win rar) HELP!!!!!SOMEbody ANYbody!!!!!AARGHH!!

 

Actually let me tell you exactly what's going on. I burnt all 3 files from your rapidshare post, as they are, even though I can't extract one of them (NOT the cue file the OTHER ONE that isn't in notepad, it's inside Windows RAR). I pressed "cfm skip 654" on the remote. The screen asks me to put in the upgrade disc, I did. It keeps spitting it out,and I've done this about 6 times now as I'm writing this post, and NOTHING. It keeps spitting out the disc as if it can't read it.

Now,ironically, the even WEIRDER things is, is when I put in the disc,WITHOUT punching in anything on the remote, the recorder automatically gives me a remaining time on the readout which means it's ready to record (now THAT doesn't make any sense!). Naturally I think that it's automatically updated, but it's NOT! Because when I put in a second BLANK dvd-r, I'm right back where I started from...
it says "error, cannot record..." blah blah blah.

WHAT the hell am I doing wrong??????????

HHHEEEEEEEEELLPPP!!!!!!

 

Hmmm?

You could just order the upgrade from Funai and avoid the headache.

 

Or you could stop being an idiot and stop trying to decompress a non compressed file. Ever heard of the daemon tools. Emulate cdroms. If you really want to see the information inside.

It is a cue/iso image. If you actually read the directions as I posted them earlier, you would know that it is a raw image. Burn with Nero by selecting recorder->burn image and select the cue file. Most modern cd burning software will let you properly burn a cue file.

Now stop trying to extract the ISO image with win rar. It is not rar image, you can't do it. It doesn't work. Think about it. If it was a rar image, the extension would probably be filename.iso.rar Is the extension filename.iso.rar? Hell no. It is filename.iso. A cue/iso image has three files associated with it. The .log file tells you if any sectors have been damaged (games with safedisc usually contain lots of these). The .cue file tells you what kind of iso file it is (such as 2352), the tracks, whether they are binary or ascii, data, or audio, and the length of each track. The .iso file contains the actual data along with any edc and ecc code that is contained within the image so the image is not considered "foreign" inside Nero.

Another program that will let you burn it with a free trial version is clonecd. You could try it or if you are still not smart enough to figure out how to burn an iso/cue image, you can order the cd from India and wait a month or more to get it.

 

BTW you want a SIMA GODVD CT2 which is about $59.95 not a SIMA COPYTHIS! CT1 DIGITAL VIDEO ENHANCER which is what you were looking at for $19.95

 

An iso can be opened with winrar, I do it all the time, it can read the raw data. When you instal it is one of the extentions it asks if you want to associate with.

 

No...

The Copy THIS! CT1 is $59.99 at Best Buy, and Copy This CT1 works too!

I've seen it in action.

As for ordering the CD from Funai..

Why do you keep saying it takes forever to get it?

I ordered and got mine in 5-7 business days. It sure would beat all this downloading and extracting files going on here.

What is the difference between the CT1 and the CT2?

 

Greeting All:

After having to glean the various bits of information on how to upgrade the firmware on both the Emerson & Symphonic DVD-R Recorders, which is scattered about this forum, and noticing that several people were still having trouble with the upgrade, I thought it might be helpful to post a simplified yet reasonably detailed set of instructions on how to actually perform the upgrade. Hopefully this will help just about anyone to do the upgrade. So here goes.

********************************************

HOW TO UPGRADE THE FIRMWARE ON THE EMERSON EWR10DR & THE SYMPHONIC SR90VE DVD RECORDER & VCR


**** WARNING: If you don't understand ANY of these instructions then don't even ATTEMPT to do this upgrade ****


1. Download the firmware update from:

http://rapidshare.de/files/1829606/ewr10d4.zip.html

Go to bottom of the page.

Click on button that says "FREE"

A new page will open.

Go to bottom of this page.

Click on the link "ewr10d4.zip". (It may take a few seconds for it to pop up.)

Begin Downloading the file.

2. Locate the file on your hard drive and UnZip it. (If you don't know how to do this then you SHOULDN'T ATTEMPT to do this upgrade!)

3. Using a CD Burning program such as Nero, select what ever function your Burning software uses to copy a "disk image" from a file to a disk. Then select the "ewr10d4.cue" file and burn the ISO image to a CD disk. Be sure to use the "ewr10d4.CUE" file and NOT the "ewr10d4.ISO" file. The "ewr10d4.cue" file contains track information necessary for the burning program to correctly burn the "disk image" to the CD. It may work by burning only the ISO file but then why risk it. The CUE file must have been included for a reason.

**** NOTE: You should have a CUE file AND an ISO file. The ISO file contains the "disk image" data and the CUE file contains the information telling the burning program HOW to burn the ISO data to the CD. [The CUE file is simply a text file. You can actually open it up in Notepad or another text editor and read the information.] You CAN'T burn a "disk image" with ONLY a CUE file. IT WON'T WORK! ****

(AGAIN, If you don't know how to do this then you SHOULDN'T ATTEMPT to do this upgrade!)

4. Power on your Recorder.

5. On your remote control; Press the "CM SKIP" button at the bottom of the remote followed by the numbers: 6, 5, 4. (Do this as rapidly as possible)

6. A screen will appear telling you to insert the upgrade disk. (Thats the disk you just burned)

7. Put the disk in, close the tray and the Recorder will begin to start the upgrade. The display on the front will start counting down and the upgrade will take about 3 minutes. *** DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING UNTIL IT FINISHES UPGRADING THE FIRMWARE ***

8. When the counter on the front of the Recorder reaches 0, the screen with tell you that it has finished upgrading the firmware and THEN THE RECORDER WILL AUTOMATICALLY EJECT THE DISK.

9. Take out the disk and then turn off the power for about 20 seconds.

10. Power on the Recorder and if you followed the instructions above, then you SHOULD be able to burn 8x DVD-R's. (NOTE: This upgrade WON'T change anything on DVD-RW's. You still CAN'T use DVD-RW Ver 1.2 /2-4x CPRM compatible or Above.)

*** DISCLAIMER: You do this upgrade at your own risk. Don't blame me if you don't understand what your doing and you screw up your recorder ****

 

Thanks Oz-man for the detailed and lucid explanation. Would it be safe to say that one ought to learn all the proclivities of the recorder before attempting to soup it up? I sure don't feel like I could do it correctly, and I have a tendency to use an offending piece of electronic equipment as a frisbee out the window

 

Actually, Im not an idiot, it's just that SOMEBODY included a file (in rar format) that doesn't need to be there (along with a notepad file that's absolutely empty), when you really needed to do was just to put the cue file in there, and nothing else, OR it would have been simpler to say:
"guys just burn the cue file only" and that would have been it.
Oh well, all good now, thanks.
AAhhhh the powers of critical thinking................

 

I posted the file on rapidshare and just downloaded it again myself to see what you guys talking about a "rar" file being included...show it to me? I get a iso,cue and a log file...where's this rar file at again? Maybe when you installed winrar you associated all files with it? I tried opening it up in winrar(which is stupid and pointless) and it says it is damaged,big suprise,because you shouldn't be using winrar for this upgrade at all. Did you guys even read through all the posts regarding this,I have explained the install process a few times myself.