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Panasonic DMR-E80H

Discussion in 'DVD recorders' started by reasonman, Jan 16, 2007.

  1. reasonman

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    I have a DMR-E80H that is about 3 years old and was running fine with the original firmware. I put in a new 8X DVD-R and it said it was incompatible. After researching the forums, I decided upgrading the firmware with the latest was what I should do.

    Big mistake. It worked fine the first time with the 8X DVD-R. But now, it will only read about half of the old DVD-R's that it created using the original firmware.

    And it also has a lot of problems with the new 8X DVD-R's. I have to restart it (unplug, wait, etc.) several times and sometimes it will be able to write to the disk. I have also reset to the original factory settings a couple of times to no avail.

    Is there any way to fix this? Can I go back to the original firmware? Is the machine basically a TIVO now?

    Please help!
     
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    Those updates are probably too old now --I`ve looked at them and the filenumbers don`t look familiar--I`ll check them against the uk versions and let you know, The only ways to go backwards in firmware are to have the e-eprom changed on the digital pcb in the unit---not for the faint hearted--or the other way is to hace the digital pcb changed which is expensive
     
  5. reasonman

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    The Panasonic firmware is almost 2 years old (4/15/2005).

    I hope you are able to find an update. It was working so well before I updated it.

    I actually have an eprom programmer around here somewhere. Haven't used it in about 20 years. But that would probably just make things worse.
     

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