Info and forum posts by 'bigtall'

RE: SAMSUNG 1600 - HOME RECORDED DISCS WON`T PLAY

yes...reburning the discs seems to be the way to go.......or adding a few secs additional video on a different recorder, on those discs that are RW....thereby changing the menu......BUT I have hundreds of +R recorded discs to completely reburn!!!!!!! What to do........thanks for your suggestion.......

RE: SAMSUNG 1600 - HOME RECORDED DISCS WON`T PLAY

Thanks for your input...but this has happened on two different 1600`s.....so I think it must be an incompatability problem.........I have a standard Samsung DVD player & it plays the Philips recorded discs fine...........

SAMSUNG 1600 - HOME RECORDED DISCS WON`T PLAY

I have just discovered that most of my DVD collection will not play on the Samsung 1600/1620 These are discs (DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD-R) that have been recorded on several home recorders over the years....PHILIPS/LITEON/SONY. After loading a disc, with recordings made on a Philips home DVD recorder, the Samsung cannot open the menu properly. The thumbnails show but no lettering. Then the player freezes and no functions will work until you get the offending disc out!
With recordings made on the Liteon recorder, the thumbnails + lettering are there OK on the menu, but the discs still won`t play. The Samsung doesn`t freeze though!!
With the SONY recordings, the menu can be read and the disc plays fine.
I suppose on my RW Philips & Liteon recordings I could replace the menu with one from the Sony recorder by recording just a few seconds of blank on the Sony. BUT, the Sony records PAL only and many of my discs, with now offending menus, are NTSC!!!
What am I to do? Please help someone..........

This item was edited on Monday, 18th January 2010, 15:32

SAMSUNG BLU-RAY FIRMWARE UPDATE SEPT. 2009 & PLAYBACK OF MKV. FILES

Please help someone...........Samsung has now included playback of Mkv. files on their latest players.....and by firmware upgrade on earlier 2009 models. I have several DVD DATA DISCS containing 720p MKV hi def pics. Will these discs play back on the Samsung with new firmware?

AMERICAN BLU RAY versus BRITISH U.K. BLU RAY

:( Please help someone..........in the old days of PAL versus NTSC ordinary DVDs, PAL had the superior picture quality (625 lines). Now with BLU RAY, is there any difference in picture quality between between American discs and UK ones?? Confused. artmcclin

This item was edited on Thursday, 31st December 2009, 21:54

RE: DVD RECORDER WITH NOISE REDUCTION-ACCEPTING NTSC & PAL INPUTS

Thanks Sue.....have picked up a Liteon 5006 from Currys at 79GPB.....here goes.....

DVD RECORDER WITH NOISE REDUCTION-ACCEPTING NTSC & PAL INPUTS

Can someone please help? I want to transfer my VHS tapes to DVD, and clean them up at the same time. My SONY DVDR does this fine on PAL tapes but alas, it does not accept NTSC, and I have a stack of NTSC tapes. My Phillips DVDR will record from pure NTSC tapes, but no noise reduction. Is there a DVD recorder out there which will let me copy PAL & NTSC VHS tapes and will clean them up at the same time???

RE: DVD Recorder thread - technical questions and answers only please

I phoned Philips customer helpline on Friday...the person took all my details and said that an engineer would phone me on Monday or Tuesday. I don`t believe it is a fault with your machine...I have an 880 and DVDR 70 and the problem exits on both. I recall, on this website, reading a complaint from someone who had experienced the same problem and decided not to buy the machine. From what I can gather, Philips has inserted an automatic gain control in the system somewhere to "brighten" the recordings. Obviously, it over compensates on some inputs........if the Philips engineer ever gets back to me, I`ll post the results...in the meantime, will try your video shift idea.

RE: DVD Recorder thread - technical questions and answers only please

Hoping you ar someone can help...have Philips DVDR70..works fine except, withh all Philips recent recorders (880;890;70) they have some sort of automatic gain control...resulting in whites being "burnt out" on recordings. This is most apparent when copying treasured VHS recording to DVD+R/RW, and hardly noticeable recording off air recordings. I just want to disable the thing....can anyone help???
nilccmtra[at]moc.loa

RE: philips DVDR 880 hack gives "NO DISC"

I region hacked my 880 some months ago using the One for All 6. All worked fine...but now I get frequent NO DISC displays when I insert DVDs. Sometimes they play OK, othertimes the same disc will not play and the display shows NO DISC.
DVDs recorded on the 880 itself play fine.
Can Anyone help???
Bigtall

Philips 880 DVD

I region hacked my 880 some months ago using the One For All remote...all was well until a week ago when, on inserting DVDs, it frequently says NO DISC. Sometimes a certain disc will play OK...other times I get NO DISC using the same disc. DVDs that I record on the 880 itself play fine. Can anyone please help????

BigTall

RE: PHILIPS DVDR 880 RECORDING PROBLEMS

ZIPMAN....... thanks for all your trouble & time....bigTALL

RE: PHILIPS DVDR 880 RECORDING PROBLEMS

Yes..many thanks, I think you are right..I just went about getting rid of the unwanted section the wrong way! I`ll do as you say in future...pause at the relevant point...60 minutes in or whatever, and then just hit record. I am hoping however, that in a different situation, where I have 3 titles and have subsequently erased 2 of them (without dividing the title!) that I can retrieve the full disc empty space where the 2 recordings were, for a single new recording? Is this the case?

Can I take the liberty of asking just one more question since you seem so familiar with the quirks of the 880. I have had difficulty in transferring VHS tapes to DVDR. Using a Scart connector to do the transfer, and monitoring the input on the 880, the picture stalls and freezes with the sound wowing. It`s Ok on the O/P of the video, but not OK monitoring the 880 input. I tried a different video playback machine which improved things , but when I tried to transfer a 2nd or 3rd. generation tape to DVDR...the same problem. No difficulty with DVD to DVDR...and changing to Super VHS output on my SVHS machine to SVHS 880 input doesn`t help.
If you have heard of this problem before and can help, I promise not to bother you again!! By the way, when the problem first became obvious, I got another new 880 from Dixons, but it has the same problem.
Very many thanks.

RE: PHILIPS DVDR 880 RECORDING PROBLEMS

Hi again...& thanks a lot for getting back.
Firstly, I am using a RW disc, so there is no problem there......nor have I protected the disc. I have racked my brains to discover how this situation has come about...so this is now what I can recall: Today, on a fully erased RW disc, I recorded from TV, 1 hour 45 minutes of stuff in SP. However, I wanted only the first hour. I did not record any chapter idents. I forwarded to 60 mins in and divided the title. The screen, I believe, then showed 3 titles.... the first 60 mins that I wanted....the next 45 mins that I didn`t want, and the remaining 15 mins, which hadn`t been used. I then erased the 45 minutes section...giving me , as I thought, a total of 60 mins in SP available.
I have tried, as you suggested, going to the final seconds of my 60 min recording, pressing stop, and then record..without going into safe record. However, it at once shows a countdown, recording from 15 minutes. It is almost as if the 45 minute unwanted section has become protected, but I understand that you can only protect the whole disc, and not a specific title. Perhaps, it is simply not possible to divide a title, erase the unwanted section, and then retrieve it to record over.
Once again, if you can help me out here, I`d be very grateful.

RE: PHILIPS DVDR 880 RECORDING PROBLEMS

Hi Zipman...further to my recording over empty titles problem on my DVDR 880....I recorded trash over the smaller 15 mins empty title...instead of then being offered the 45 mins empty title to record over, the display simply said DISC FULL...any ideas where my missing 45 minutes has gone????? Hopefully, you can help.
bigTALL

RE: PHILIPS DVDR 880 RECORDING PROBLEMS

Hi Zipman....Have tried your suggestion...but alas no luck...am now recording trash over the smaller empty title.... in the hope that next time it will offer me the longer title to record on..which is better than nothing.
Thanks bigTALL

PHILIPS DVDR 880 RECORDING PROBLEMS

I must really be thick!! He`s my problem: Lets say I record 3 programmes at SP on my 880, one of 60 mins duration, one of 45 mins, and one of 15mins. I now erase the the 45 minutes show and the 15 minute one, leaving two empty titles with those 2 durations on my TV screen, plus the 60 minute show still intact. I now want to record a programme on the remaining 60 free minutes. But when I go into record, the 880 selects the empty title duration of 15 minutes, and 15 minutes recording is all I get. I can`t even get the available empty 45 minutes title to record over.
What IS going on? Am I being really stupid?
Please help......... someone.
bigTALL

RE: Philips DVDR 880/recording in NTSC

Sorry, can`t say if this region hack will work for your player too. It didn`t remove macrovision..I have now a separate box for this..... bought some years ago..think it was from a company called Letropacks...something like that...they advertised it as a box to clean up & stabilise video copies...and allows you to copy library films...think they still advertise in either What Video ot What Satellite. Hope this helps. BigTALL

Philips DVDR 880 HACKED OK, BUT HAVE PICTURE FREEZE PROBS & SOUND WOW

I have region hacked my 880 and regarding that, everything works fine. However, I have now noticed that when copying my video tapes to DVDR, and monitoring through the DVDR, the sound sometimes "wows" and at the same time, the picture seems to stall/freeze. I have checked the video tapes, monitoring the VCR out, rather than the DVDR out, and all is well with the video playback and the machine. Has anyone else had this problem? Hoping someone can help rectify it. This is not just a monitoring problem, the actual DVD recordings are affected too. Now I can`t trust the 880.

This item was edited on Friday, 3rd January 2003, 23:35

RE: Philips DVDR 880/recording in NTSC

Hi there..the best way to region hack the Phillips 880 is this:
1)You need to buy a ONE FOR ALL REMOTE 6 (£25 approx)
2) Make sure that the recorder remote control is set to DVD PLAYER and not the other option, "DVD recorder". You do this by selecting System on the remote and looking for the recorder/player remote option.
3)Using the ONE FOR ALL REMOTE 6 instructions, set up the DVD button with the code 0539.
4) Press the MAGIC button
5) Make sure the Phillips 880 is on, but with no disc in the tray.Enter the code 085 on yoyr One For All remote, aiming the remote at the Philips recorder. The display on the recorder now shows a series a dashes.
6) Using the number keys on the PHILIPS remote, enter the code 121 212 005 255
7) Presss the PLAY button on the Philips remote - aiming it at the machine.The display will show NO DISC
8) Power off the DVD player, wait 10 seconds and power up. THAT`S IT!!!!
THE PHILLIPS 880 WILL NOW PLAY ALL DVDs
Good luck..let me know how you get on.

RE: Philips DVDR 880/recording in NTSC

Jarvis.....many thanks, you have solved the problem...NTSC recordings work fine now...bigtall

Philips DVDR 880/recording in NTSC

I region hacked my 880 OK, but I understood it was possible to transfer NTSC tapes onto the 880. I have an NTSC video player, but when I connect up, the 880 displays the message WRONG DISC TYPE(PAL). Tansferring PAL tapes to DVD is fine. Can anybody help?????