Page 1 of Grundig GDV 520 Owners - Update disc available from Mastercare!!!

Hi, Everyone,

Ok, I never really thought properly and posted this on the Software forum, and got duly reprimanded from Clayts, sorry Clayts, I am one of those eejits you just have to put up with. In my defence, I thought an upgrade disc was a software related thang as it comes on a shiny silvery circular thing! :-D Anyway, Clayts, I apologise.

This was my original posting:


GDV 520 Owners,

I registered a few weeks ago with Mastercare for an update disc, then heard nothing until 5 minutes ago. Apparantly they now have the latest update disc, which they claim fixes Terminator 1 and Dinosaur problems. (Don`t have Dinosaur, but knew a couple of you had asked about it).

Anyway, they told me I should have it by the end of the week!! Give them a ring and claim your disc now!!!

Hope this helps, people,

Ironman



Just to add to that, in Mastercare`s usual efficient style, they sent me two upgrade discs, so if anyone in the UK wants one and can`t get hold of one, I will post it out to them on one condition: that they post it on to anyone else who needs or requests it.

Does that sound fair? First come first served basis. E-mail me at 025gidnurg[at]moc.oohay with your postal address and I will pop it in 1st class for you.

For the others who cannot wait, I have uploaded the contents of the disc to a Yahoo Briefcase account. You can download it and burn it to a CD-RW I would imagine. The link is:

http://uk.y42.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/grundig520/lst?.dir=/Grundig_GDV520&.view=l&.src=bc&.done=http%3a//uk.y42.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/grundig520/lst%3f.dir=/Grundig_GDV520%26.src=bc%26.view=l

If that doesn`t work, then let me know at the bottom of this thread.

If you do download this file, the instructions are:

Switch player on, ensure there is NO disc in player.
Press 7, 6 then the Camera Angle button.
Menu appears : Update Software 1/Yes 2/No
Press 1
Open drawer, insert disc, close drawer and wait for TWO minutes, the unplug from the mains for at least 10 seconds. Reconnect power plug.
It says that the language selection screen appears, but it didn`t on mine, anyway, press 1 if it does to select English.
Remove upgrade disc.

And thats it.

Anyway, I updated my machine, it now plays Terminator 1 and Goldeneye (First version) with no problems. The guy at Mastercare said it also fixes the Dinosaur problem, but seeing as though I don`t have this disc I can`t comment.

The startup screen is different now (as Oritron users have stated) it no longer has the Grundig Fine Arts logo, so it sounds as if it is the same as the Oritron update. The readme.txt file is different to the one that accompanies the Tevion update, so I would be a little reluctant to try that one, if anyone (like me) was tempted.

Hope this helps some of you.

Ok, th-th-th-th-thats all folks!

PS The region hack still works after upgrading.

Oh, another player for FIRMTweak!!!

I`ve had a quick look through it with my (special firmware) hex editor and it loks like no other firmware I`ve come across to date. I can see graphics galore in the bin file. I`ll look into writing a FIRMTweak module for it.

If the Oritron logo bothers you, then you amy be able to change it yourself in near-ish the future!

Whats the contact number for Mastercare???

I got the disc from Mastercare, upgraded the firmware, re-entered the region hack and everything is hunky-dory apart from one thing.
Playing dvd`s on there is fine, however it would seem that if I turn the player off, then on again later and resume a film from the point I finished at (When it says `press play to resume`), the subtitles automatically seem to come on requiring me to exit the film, turn them off, and resume the film once more.

Anyone else had this problem with the firmware 005??

Whats the contact number for Mastercare???


Its :- 0541 541 541

Are there any new updates for the gdv520.
I have had mine since Jan 01 and have been relatively happy with bar the fact that I cannot play cd-rs and the winding up/down of the sub woofer...

Has anyone seen a web site with this info?

Out of interest do they charge for these update Cd`s?
I ask as my Pacific750 as this update feature, and was wondering what maufactures do when updates available.

Hi there I`m new to the forum and have been reading with interest all that has been noted about the above DVD player. I to have this model and my son also bought one, only last yer from Curry`s, mine has went on the blink and refuses to light up and the other one has now went crazy and won`t play any dvd movies after trying the hack mentioned in this forum menu, 1, 6, 7, mute exit has anyone any idear what`s going on. When i tried the hack it didn`t work and i`ve read with interest that the player was a multi region player but this never worked before i tried the hack.

Now it won`t do anything but play music, Any suggetions would be helpful. What`s the update disc about and i`ve tried the link above and cannot get it to work. HELP.

MLan