Page 1 of Philips DVDR610 Track and Disc Titling Problem

Has anyone else tried entering text into their DVDR610?

When titling a track or a disk, the operation of the digits on the remote is much like the operation of the text-entry system on a mobile phone; you press a given digit a given number of times to obtain a given letter.

Except the opertation on my 610 seems a little ...erratic. Pressing 2, quite reasnobly seems to cycle through "ABC2ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇ" and pressing 8, for example, seems to cycle through "TUV8ÙÚÛÜ". So far so good. When it comes to punctuation, however, pressing 1 seems to cycle through " 1[at]_#==))". Yes there are two equals signs and two close brackets.

The operation of the 0 (zero) key is even more obscure. It goes ".0,/:;" followed by <double quotes>, <move the cursor right one space>, <nothing>, then "?*+-". Try it - it`s an education!

I`m guessing that not many people bother punctuating their track and disc titles, but I was producing a wedding DVD the other day and it was driving me up the wall...

I`ve asked Philips to patch it and also how many more firmware upgrades we need to have before the machine is stable...

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists on other planets is that none of it has come to visit us.

Thank you kdmcmullan for your post. But be warned, it seems that the upgrades so far are removing the feature in order to remove its funny! Perhaps Philips would be good enough to mount all upgrades so that there a way of going back a version if the upgrade is a feature removal too far. Does the upgrade process allow this?

Hopefully Philips will continue to support the DVDR610 long enough to re-introduce the features lost in quick fixes.

Heh heh! Tell me about it! Surely they COULDN`T remove such a major feature?

Is anyone else experiencing the same test dificulties? Maybe it`s only anoraks like me who bother titling their disks?

Anyway, if we have no joy getting Philips to maintain a library of firmware, we`ll have to do it ourselves. I have a copy of version BE41.51.35 BT1_12B_L2 on disk. Any other budding librarians out there?

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists on other planets is that none of it has come to visit us.

For info,

The new software version BT1_21 (don`t know what date it was posted on the Philips site) has fixed the text titling buglets outlined here.

Another change I note to this release is that there`s a confirmation dialog when you attempt to delete a track. Previously, the user wasn`t asked - the track was just deleted.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists on other planets is that none of it has come to visit us.