Page 1 of proline 2000 information

I would like to know of any problems with any region one or two discs,my recent encounter with Terminator 1 has made me reluctant to purchase new titles.

It`s a clone of the Oritron 600

The firmware versions may be different

Some Problems with the Oritron 600

R1: Dinosaur
R2: Some of the Farscape Discs
Any: Various menu lockups that require poweroff at mains to restart.
+ others

Most Oritron 600 players in the UK are firmware 003 (this is updatable, earlier versions might not be). Oritron have released version 004 but it didn`t fix all the problems, they are currently working on a fix for Dinosaur at the moment (might also fix the other problems)

Don`t know of any Region 1 problems but as Cutz2000 mentioned four of the Region 2 007 Special Edition DVD`s - You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, Moonraker and The Living Daylights (like The Terminator also from MGM) - have problems. Slightly different with them as opposed to Terminator because their menus load okay. It is when you select something from the menu that the freeze occurs. Again like Terminator could still play the disc by selecting all the features using the Active Navigation mode instead of selecting from the menu. Don`t know if this is specific to MGM titles but by-passing the menus can always get the discs to play.

Have heard an unconfirmed rumour that the menu problems on discs have been fixed. Supposedly the Proline 2000 firmware can be updated by just inserting a disc into the machine and such a disc is believed to exist. CW2000 comments would seem to confirm an update is available as the firmware on my machine is 003 (press menu twice for firmware information). Have e-mailed Comet for confirmation but am still waiting for an answer. If I hear anything will let you know.

This item was edited on Thursday, 22nd March 2001, 09:13

If i update the firmware will it affect the region hack

Good question. It shouldn`t but I suppose there is always that danger. Would have to make certain before updating.

read my post in http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=113&Thread=31708
to see the Comet solution.

This item was edited on Sunday, 8th April 2001, 18:44

Any idea where to get the upgrade discs from?