need help setting up toshiba bdx1100

[ben996]

hi, i own a toshiba bdx1100, i just need some help picking settings, thank you if anyone can help,
1.Under general setting, system it says CEC, on or off, what does that mean.
2.It also says upgrade and disc auto upgrade, i presume that means updates for the player, can someone confirm this for me.
3. It also says external memory, what does that mean.
4. What does load default mean, i know i should know this so sorry.
5. Screen saver means when you don't touch it for a while something happens, can someone confirm this.
6. DIsc auto playback, whats that.

thanks, sorry for trouble

[The Duke]

Originally Posted by ben996

hi, i own a toshiba bdx1100, i just need some help picking settings, thank you if anyone can help,
1.Under general setting, system it says CEC, on or off, what does that mean.
2.It also says upgrade and disc auto upgrade, i presume that means updates for the player, can someone confirm this for me.
3. It also says external memory, what does that mean.
4. What does load default mean, i know i should know this so sorry.
5. Screen saver means when you don't touch it for a while something happens, can someone confirm this.
6. DIsc auto playback, whats that.

thanks, sorry for trouble

49 views and no response? Perhaps it's because everything you asked about is clearly explained in the owners manual, which clearly too many people never bother to open. Five minutes of bothering to read it would have answered all your questions for you. If I'm seriously consider buying a consumer electronics, I usually download the user manual PDF file and read through it thoroughly before buying. That way I know what it's capable of.

I know absolutely nothing about your player, but let me take a stab at it -

1- CEC is control of other devices by the player's remote control, through the HDMI connection. But it's generally it's limited to devices of the same brand, as the different brands use different protocols. In other words, if your TV is also Toshiba you can control it with the player's remote with CEC set to On, but not if your TV is a Sony or Samsung or another brand.

2- Yes, it's options for firmware updates.

3- External memory is something like a USB thumb drive that you can use instead or in addition to the player's internal memory.

4- It means to load the player's default settings, erasing any changes to the settings you have made.

5- Yes, Screensaver is like a screensaver for a computer - if inactive for a certain amount of time it turns the screen blank and randomly displays a message across the screen. This is so you don't get an image burned into your screen from a still image being displayed for a long time.

6-Disc auto playback means if On, a disc will start playing when you close the tray, Off the player will wait for you to press Play.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by The Duke

49 views and no response? Perhaps it's because everything you asked about is clearly explained in the owners manual, which clearly too many people never bother to open. Five minutes of bothering to read it would have answered all your questions for you. If I'm seriously consider buying a consumer electronics, I usually download the user manual PDF file and read through it thoroughly before buying. That way I know what it's capable of...

Ben's posted this in the UK thread as well and we've happily been patient with him. Unfortunately he's downloaded the US firmware for his UK player and his region B The Simpsons: The Movie will no longer play. He only has region free discs apart from The Simpsons.

On the Toshiba US site a review for his player says that you can install region specific firmware before you want to watch a disc from that region and swap them back and forth. I can't really comment on that but unless his player thinks it already up to date will he be able to install the UK firmware over the US one? Can you go back to your factory settings firmware if it doesn't work? I think you can with the PS3 but the Toshiba isn't quite the same.

[The Duke]

Originally Posted by chip75

Ben's posted this in the UK thread as well and we've happily been patient with him. Unfortunately he's downloaded the US firmware for his UK player and his region B The Simpsons: The Movie will no longer play. He only has region free discs apart from The Simpsons.

On the Toshiba US site a review for his player says that you can install region specific firmware before you want to watch a disc from that region and swap them back and forth. I can't really comment on that but unless his player thinks it already up to date will he be able to install the UK firmware over the US one? Can you go back to your factory settings firmware if it doesn't work? I think you can with the PS3 but the Toshiba isn't quite the same.

Ah, interesting. A couple of years ago on another site a guy asked for help, saying he updated the firmware on his Sharp HP-BD20U and afterward it gave him a region code error when he tried to play the US Fox release he'd been trying to play. Then he realized that when he googled "sharp bluy-ray firmware update" he hadn't paid attention that he went to the Sharp Australia site & downloaded the FW from there, so it changed his region setting from A to B. That set off a bell in my head as I'd been wanting a region free / region B player. So I bought an open box unit at an auction site fairly cheap, loaded the Aussie FW, and sure enough it was set to region B. But I didn't realize that player couldn't bitstream or decode DTS Master Audio, only the DTS 'core', so I sold it to a friend at my cost.

Well, if Toshiba blu-ray players are like their HD DVD players they will only accept a newer version FW, not the same or older version. But what he can do is download the free Hexedit program. It's a hexadecimal editor that shows you what's inside software programs. Toshiba puts the version number right at the beginning. Download the current UK firmware version and change the version number to one higher than the US and the player will take it. For example if the UK & US firmware version are both 2.2, change the UK on to 2.3 and the player will take it, thinking it's a newer version.

I'm pretty sure resetting to factory defaults doesn't affect region settings.

PS - There's a thread for UK hardware here?

[chip75]

Originally Posted by The Duke

I'm pretty sure resetting to factory defaults doesn't affect region settings.

PS - There's a thread for UK hardware here?

Thanks for your reply, I've read about changing the version with a Hexedit program it's not something I'd have confidence to do lol. Hopefully he'll get it sorted. Getting one of these players does seem a good way to get a multiregion machine if Toshiba don't mess around with the firmware updates (I like to think they'd leave it alone).

He posted his two threads in the Blu-ray Movies/International/UK section.

When I talked about the factory settings I wondered if it would roll-back the firmware not just the region settings I'm not sure how to do that though.

[The Duke]

Originally Posted by chip75

Thanks for your reply, I've read about changing the version with a Hexedit program it's not something I'd have confidence to do lol. Hopefully he'll get it sorted. Getting one of these players does seem a good way to get a multiregion machine if Toshiba don't mess around with the firmware updates (I like to think they'd leave it alone).

He posted his two threads in the Blu-ray Movies/International/UK section.

When I talked about the factory settings I wondered if it would roll-back the firmware not just the region settings I'm not sure how to do that though.

No, a factory reset will not roll back the firmware. The only way to do that is to install new firmware.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by The Duke

No, a factory reset will not roll back the firmware. The only way to do that is to install new firmware.

Thanks for the confirmation The Duke.