[killer10971]

after updating my dv139 firmware no probs whatched a few films all ok , tried harry potter and order of the phoenix last night and intially the player didnt recognise the disc (no disc message) after ejecting and reloading all ok ,at the end of the film pressed stop and the disc paused ,repeated pressing stop and still the film was paused , pressed play and film goes to the begining ,to get to arcam screen i had to eject the disc

i watched this disc with a previous firmware and it didnt do this , can anyone try this disc and confirm this

many thanks all

[killer10971]

just tried another disc and same fault ??

[cammy]

Originally Posted by killer10971

after updating my dv139 firmware no probs whatched a few films all ok , tried harry potter and order of the phoenix last night and intially the player didnt recognise the disc (no disc message) after ejecting and reloading all ok ,at the end of the film pressed stop and the disc paused ,repeated pressing stop and still the film was paused , pressed play and film resumed ,to get to arcam screen i had to eject the disc

i watched this disc with a previous firmware and it didnt do this , can anyone try this disc and confirm this

many thanks all

that's strange that it's happening with the latest update as this was one of the faults that was rectified with v4.03

[spl23]

I've seen this happen a couple of times with 5.06 on my DV137.

[killer10971]

seems to happen after the films been running a while , if you put a disc in let it start then stop it no problems , im letting a disc play through to test this theory

anyone got the old firmware 4.08 or 4.12 which ever came before the 5.xx

I have 5.05, 4.12 and 4.03. Just tell me what you want.

[killer10971]

cheers mate but i have found v4.12 on my pc ,i did the firmware update again (v5.06) and i just let a disc play through and it was fine , im having a film evening so ill see what happens tonight if i have any problems ill go back to v4.12

i would of thought more dv139/137 owners would have this

[cammy]

Originally Posted by killer10971

after updating my dv139 firmware no probs whatched a few films all ok , tried harry potter and order of the phoenix last night and intially the player didnt recognise the disc (no disc message) after ejecting and reloading all ok ,at the end of the film pressed stop and the disc paused ,repeated pressing stop and still the film was paused , pressed play and film goes to the begining ,to get to arcam screen i had to eject the disc

i watched this disc with a previous firmware and it didnt do this , can anyone try this disc and confirm this

many thanks all

hi there!
i've just put on U2 live in boston dvd,pressed stop and picture paused.
i watched the same dvd last night with no problem.
upgraded to V5.06 earlier tonight so it looks like it's a fault with with the upgrade.

[killer10971]

just tried my dv-r collection and none play

[killer10971]

just reverted back to 4.12 all is back to normal ,dvd-rs work and it stops not pauses

what a good update

Originally Posted by killer10971

i would of thought more dv139/137 owners would have this

I travel allot and I did the update 2 weeks ago when it came out and then left for California an hour later. I have no idea what it did to the player other than that my DV137 still works and my wife has not bitten my head off for breaking the DVD player before I left. She has watched a few movies and has not reported any major issues. I will do more testing when I get back next week.

[Naimer]

I've updated about 2 dozen DV137s and DV139s for customers and the two 139s that I own myself. One of the after-upgrade tests I do is to play a DVD-R that has test material on it as well as some general video in 4:3 and 16:9 just to test everything out.

Every player I upgraded played these DVD-Rs just fine....and I've had no complaints from customers one of whom plays almost nothing BUT DVD-R...

[killer10971]

cheers naimer

is that using crusty loafers posted firmware ??(no offence crusty) or a arcam supplied disc etc

many thanks

[Naimer]

Originally Posted by killer10971

cheers naimer

is that using crusty loafers posted firmware ??(no offence crusty) or a arcam supplied disc etc

many thanks

Crusty gets his software files and .ISO files from the same place I get mine: the Arcam Dealer Extranet so yes, they are the same files....

[Crustyloafer]

Originally Posted by killer10971

cheers naimer

is that using crusty loafers posted firmware ??(no offence crusty) or a arcam supplied disc etc

many thanks

All my firmware files are sourced from the Arcam Dealer Extranet site are therefore no different to any disc supplied by Arcam.

[killer10971]

i am using the same software and discs i always use to burn the firmware , anyone else had problems with this firmware ??? i jumped from 4.12 to 5.06 ,would that cause any problems however unlikely

cheers

[norks27]

Originally Posted by killer10971

i jumped from 4.12 to 5.06 ,would that cause any problems however unlikely

There would be no problems with this, the player does not need to be upgraded sequentially so to speak. When you upgrade the firmware my impression is that the existing firmware is erased and replaced by the new version. Therefore it wont matter if you jump to the latest firmware from a much older version.

Regarding 5.06, I've had one glitch where the player froze mid way through a film. I had to power cycle and then all seemed well. It's only happened on one occasion so far.

Perhaps 5.07 is right around the corner, especially if Arcam are reading this.

[spl23]

Originally Posted by norks27

Regarding 5.06, I've had one glitch where the player froze mid way through a film. I had to power cycle and then all seemed well. It's only happened on one occasion so far.

I've also had this happen once in 5.06 - ejecting the disc, reloading and skipping to the same place fixed it.

[cammy]

Originally Posted by cammy

hi there!
i've just put on U2 live in boston dvd,pressed stop and picture paused.
i watched the same dvd last night with no problem.
upgraded to V5.06 earlier tonight so it looks like it's a fault with with the upgrade.

watched charlie wilson's war tonight,still intermmitent still pause when pressing stop.

[spl23]

Originally Posted by cammy

watched charlie wilson's war tonight,still intermmitent still pause when pressing stop.

Had the same problem with one disc of Men Behaving Badly last night - doesn't happen all the time, and I haven't managed to work out if it is disc-dependent yet.

[killer10971]

naimer or crusty had any reports of faults yet??

[Naimer]

Not yet...

Since most of you folks are probably in the UK I watched some PAL Region 2 discs in my collection just to see if it was a format/region issue that I was not seeing in NTSC configuration but did not have a problem with any of the discs I tried in PAL/Region 2 or NTSC/Region 1.

I also tried DVD-R and DVD+R copies of discs in both configurations with no apparent problems.

I've not heard back from any customers although I have left them follow up emails and/or phone calls asking "how is the player doing since the upgrade and if there are any issues to please contact me ASAP".

[Baaz]

After upgrading from version 4.03 to 5.06 my player works as a charm.

/B

[Wyatt71]

Bad Disc message with my Ninja Scroll DVD after upgrading to 5.06 on my DV139
Tested several other discs and all been fine.

My wife has played several movies and has had no issues. We just watched one and I hit stop at the end (credits). It did the typical stop with resume option thing. Is this where you hit stop or is it after the credits and the player reverts back to the disc menu, then you hit stop?

I know that is a new setting in the player. Is yours set to stop with resume or just to stop? Also, have you tried to do a "restore factory settings". Maybe something got hosed, dumb as it may sound. I have had audio dropouts in the past. I tried factory reset to see if I set something that was causing it and noticed that after a firmware upgrade the player liked to be reset and then manually set up again. Just write down all of your settings before the restore and then there is nothing to loose by trying it. My player defaulted to HDMI (or somthing) anyway for some reason the picture was all screwed up. I had just gone through the menu so I was familliar with how many clicks (menu, down once, select and what the options that I could select was) so I "fumbled blindly for a few tries but got it working. So maybe this option shoud be used with caution. Up to you.

[killer10971]

if i press stop it freezes (pauses) if i press play again it goes to the main menu of the disc ,the only way to get to the arcam screen is to eject the disc also why would all my dvd-r stop playing ,


edit

reloaded ver 5.06 and this time after powering down and restarting i did a factory reset , the player plays my dvd-r now but it takes a while.after inserting the disc the front displays play/pause/ chapter the disc spins up slows down maybe 6-9 times which it never did before

will try the problem discs when i get a chance

cheers

[ripclaw]

Ok, after loading firmware 5.06, I've had a strange problem. I can play PAL discs just fine, but whenever I've tried to play NTSC discs, the image would be smeared on the screen, as if there's an HDMI failure. I've tried switching the player AND the screen (a Panny TH65PF9) off and on again, and the problem persists.

I've since gone back to firmware 4.12 and my DV139 works as before. No problems. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Ripclaw, not really sure, I don't use HDMI yet. I have and older RPTV that uses component with progressive scan. My best guess is to try like my last post says, do a factory reset, in case any of your settings are not compatible or have changed in the new update. All I have are NTSC discs and my player is set to region 13 (all), I am in the USA so I have not bought any pal discs yet. Think my parents might have some PAL ones I can try even though I know those are the ones that worked for you.

Killer10971, so that means if you use stop anywhere in the movie it acts as a pause? I know you have not tested it this time around but just trying to be clear on the issues last time.

I am playing a DVD+r home movie right now that I made a while ago. It only spun up once for me and then started right away. When I selected a chapter it seemed to play back a bit jumpy at first but smothed out in 30 sec or so. I am about 10 min in and have no issues for now. Stop goes to the Arcam screen and play resumes it.

[killer10971]

Originally Posted by Krell rules

Killer10971, so that means if you use stop anywhere in the movie it acts as a pause? I know you have not tested it this time around but just trying to be clear on the issues last time.

yes same as some other are experiencing ,press stop and the film pauses (freezes) press play again and it goes to the root menu of the disc.

seems to happen after the films been playing a while

[killer10971]

watched a film tonight and no problems with disk resume off and it was a dvd-r , put disk resume on and let same film play for 45 minutes still no problems

seems the reset after the firmware update may have sorted it ,fingers crossed