Sam's had a whole pile of these units. I picked one up.
It claims to record on DVD-R and DVD-RW media. I tried (new, unused) Verbatim DVD-R discs that work fine in my Panasonic DMR-E75V unit, but they are rejected by the Sylvania.
Has anyone else had any experience with these units?
I started googling and it appears that this unit requires 4X media. The Verbatim media I'm using is 8X. Looks like I'll be taking this unit back.
"Rick Langston" <rlangston@nc.rr.com> wrote in message news:iD13e.6577$9v2.234714@twister.southeast.rr.com...> Sam's had a whole pile of these units. I picked one up.>
It claims to record on DVD-R and DVD-RW media. I tried (new, unused)> Verbatim DVD-R> discs that work fine in my Panasonic DMR-E75V unit, but they are rejected
Sylvania.>
Has anyone else had any experience with these units?>
you have to call Sylvania to get a software upgrade so the unit can write on -R and -RW DVDS at 1-8x speed. The unit only writes to 4x. Call 800-605-8453 and they will send you a disk.
The manual states this unit cannot record on the following disks. DVD-R General Ver 2.0/8x DVD-RW Ver 1.2/2-4x CPRM compatible Page 26, Left column, middle of page Steve Zuranski
I have one of these and it seems to record OK on 4X disks. I have however noticed that the autochapter feature doesn't work. It's set up to autochapter every 10 minutes but I don't get any chapter-ing
It worked until the warranty ran out. Now it won't record on anything that wasn't formated prior (same brand and model discs no longer work). I'm going to take an axe to it and mail it back to Sylvania with a "stongly worded letter". You get what you pay for, I guess. Sylvania (censored); a pox on their families.
Hey everyone, thanks for posting. I'm going insane trying to get the dadgum thing to work. Again, bought it at Sam's Club. Tried two different media - no success. Taking it back tomorrow. I wondered why it was $100 less than all the others. Frankly it's too limited and will be out of date soon. Wish I had read the posts sooner.
I'm afraid I have to join the club of the frustrated. After reading the manual and trying THREE different DVD-R's, this piece of shit is going back! Sylvania (censored)!
I should have also suggested this in my earlier posting: I can email you the file that is on the upgrade disk (about 500KB compressed), and you can make your own update CD. This has been done successfully by another user.
It turns out I don't get notified when postings to this thread happen. I am sorry some of you waited so long. So, for future requests, please email a request to tntmnm "at" spearnet.net . Thanks, Tim
I have heard from another user that the same software update works on the SRDV495. As before, email me a request, and I can send it: tntmnm "at" spearnet.net .
PEOPLE!!! PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE POSTS!!! Tim MnM WANTS YOU TO EMAIL THE FILE REQUEST - DO NOT POST YOUR REQUEST HERE - HE DOES NOT GET NOTIFIED!!!!
"Apologies to anyone recently posting requests to this thread, I do not get notified. I also don't track who I have sent the file to... Please email firmware requests to: tntmnm "at" spearnet.net"
WOW!!! He posted that like twice!!
And for you confused people he wrote out his email as tntmnm "at" spearnet.net because if he used the @ symbol, spambots that scour blogs and posts could harvest his email address and he's avoiding spam. SO... replace "at" with @ and you're DISCO!
Just got tired of the same dumb request OVER and OVER and OVER....
Aloha Tim MnM, could you send me the file, Uhhhhhh, like I need it to use my DeeVee Duh player. Just kidding... Hey thanks for the info. My wife actually came acrosss yor post and I got in touch with the fine folks at Tch support... of course the first thing they ask after the the model number is, "Have you upgraded this unit sir?" Good post! My disc is on the way. And I'm glad to post stuff like the above for the "slower users" aomgst us. Mahalo again! Lopaka
After updating, I have used HP 8x and Sony 16x DVD-R, as well as the original Memorex 4x DVD-R and 2x DVD-RW that worked before the update. So is your comment before or after the update?
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