Info and forum posts by 'Carl Edwards'

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Joined on: Saturday, 6th January 2001, 17:25, Last used: Saturday, 6th January 2001, 17:25

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RE: Recent Samsung 511 Hack & question strange patterns during R1 dvd`s

Firmware is s4.05e according to the chip.

Cutting Pin 19`s wire cured the problem - it turned everything black! No signal gets through at all. So what is pin 19?

Recent Samsung 511 Hack & question re: strange patterns during R1 dvd`s

Looking at the archives, this player has had a lot of discussion. I`ve just (2 hours ago) bought mine from Makro (£139+VAT) and couldn`t get any hack to work until I tried the old one (pressed `Region` on remote, then `38767` then `9` then `open/close` then `standby`). What has surprised me, however, is that it appears to be permanent. I put in R1 Disney Hercules, which played fine, then R2 `Bug`s Life` which also played fine. Powered off, powered on, put Hercules back in and it worked fine.

If someone tells me how to find out, I`ll happily report what firmware is in it.

Also, I`ve noticed with both this player and the Proline 2000 I just got a refund from Comet for (just marched in and demanded it, no problem) that on R1 discs I get strange interference lines when the picture is moving considerably. During still-ish sequences, no problem, but when the background starts to move, I get all these strange pale regions on the screen wherever a pale object is next to a dark one. R2 discs do not display this behaviour at all. I also don`t get the patterns when I switch the video output to `video` rather than `RGB` but obviously the picture is nowhere near as good. (Why is it that women say `looks alright to me` when it`s obviously a crap picture!!!). The TV can run at 60Hz (I know this because my Dreamcast works fine at 60Hz) so has anyone any idea what is occurring here?