Philips LX8300SA/01, LX8300SA/04, LX8300SA/05, LX8300SA/69, LX8500W/01 Firmware Upgrade Instruction

Philips AVS

LX8300SA & LX8500W Firmware Upgrade

Firmware Upgrade

We have developed a firmware upgrade to improve your product.

This upgrade is applicable for the following models:

LX8300SA/01, LX8300SA/04, LX8300SA/05, LX8300SA/69

LX8500W/01, LX8500W/04, LX8500W/69, LX8500W/93

This firmware version improves: Click here for more details

1.Picture freezes for about 2~5 sec but subtitle and audio continue. Then picture speeds up to catch up with the audio & subtitle

Upgrade Procedure

Step 1 Check your current version

First check your current firmware version to see if you need to upgrade:

1.Power up the set and select DISC source.

2.Open tray by press "OPEN/CLOSE" button on the set or press and hold "STOP" button on the RC.

3.Press "DISPLAY" button on the Remote control.

4.The TV screen will shows:

SD6.3 Vxx YYYY-ZZ A BB SERVO: nnnnnnnn REG:A xx = version number

YYYY = model number (eg. 8300, 8500, etc.) ZZ = slash stroke version (eg. 01, 69, etc.) A = region code

BB = Front uP software version number nnnnnnnn = servo version number

Step 2 Download Firmware upgrade

Click the link to save the software on your computer.

Step 3 Burning Upgrade on CD-R / CD-RW

1.Extract the files by unzipping the zipped file – LX8300SA.BIN

(Do not rename the filenames)

2.Write the extracted files – not the zip file – onto a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc, using the following settings:

-File System CD-ROM Joliet

-File name length : max 31 chars (ISO Level 2)

-Mode : 2/XA

-Character set : ASCII

-Single session

-Write Speed : Low

3.Finalized the disc. (The application may do this automatically.)

Tip: For more information on burning software we refer to two popular burning software programs

www.nero.com www.easycdcreator.com

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Step 4 Apply Upgrade to your Set

1.Power up the set and select DISC source.

2.Open tray by press "OPEN/CLOSE" button on the set or press and hold "STOP" button on the RC.

3.Place upgrade CD-ROM onto tray and close.

4.The set will response and display the following:

•LOAD [After the disc is read, the tray will open for you to remove the disc]

•ERASE [Erasing disc]

•WRITE [Writing disc]

•ERROR [if upgrade is unsuccessful]

•UPG END [if upgrade is successful]

•DISC->CLOSE->LOAD [Tray will close indicating that the upgrade process is completed]

Do NOT power off the player at this stage.

5.The whole process should not take more than 5 minutes.

Your product is successfully upgraded!

Step 5 After the upgrade

Do confirm the software version by checking the system version.

Please follow the procedure described in the section “Check your current version”.

Firmware upgrade history

Firmware Version 27

This upgrade software solves the following problems:

Picture freezes for about 2~5 sec but subtitle and audio continue. Then picture speeds up to catch up with the audio & subtitle.

Firmware Version 26

This software version includes:

•Disable Post Processing for Lineout.

•DVD+R disc cannot read the TOC.

•DVD+R disc can play, but without audio output.

•SACD disc cannot read the TOC.

•DivX disc cannot read the TOC.

•Decode wrong 5.1 output by input the audio L/R (TV input).

•Correct the frequency response in stereo mode on Lineout

•Improve Night Mode

•Improvements for a CD text disc which has more than 20 tracks, sometime the CD Text does not appear on TV screen and FTD.

•Play a DVD disc which have many audio stream, keep changing the audio stream by AUDIO key in many time quickly. sometime video freeze.

•After programming 20 disc of FTS, all disc FTS are cleared.