Firmware downgrade on Samsung BD-P1000 ?

[RX-Men-8]

Hi,

Doe anyone have an early firmware version of the BD-P1000 player available that I can use to downgrade? Like 060605.01 for a region 01/0A player?

The problem is - we upgraded to 060929.01 to play the movie Speed, but since that it won't accept the BD-R(E) test discs we author. Has to do with the fact that non-AACS BDMV titles shouldn't play (anymore) in Blu-ray players I guess.

So now out testing tool has become unusable

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,

RX-Men-8

[RX-Men-8]

Thanks, I've received an older "poseidon" file to put in the firmware upgrade ISO. Cheers!

[Spanky]

Hi

We've got exactly the same problem as you. Do you know where I can get the old downgrade firmware?

Thanks

[RX-Men-8]

You've got a PM

[artgug]

Any chance I could get a link for that file. i am attempting to produce some Blu-ray discs, but have been unable to as of yet.

Also, does this break Hollywood releases from playing ?

[RX-Men-8]

As we've found, some of the latest releases need the latest firmware to be played. The movie "Speed" or "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" for example will not load.

A firmware upgrade consists of three files in an ISO image, and we've done a little combining trick. We've put the old main file (the one with the name "poseidon" in it together with the newest files from the samsung website, one of which seems to be the disc loader.

Now the new titles do load, and the new loader with the "dots" instead of the "hourglass" apparently works with these new titles.

However, these new titles do not play well with the old firmware. Menu items sometimes crash, and if you resume into the main movie (skipping any menus) we found that the video decoding is making many errors (blocking).

Apparently the old firmware is not ready for better codecs than MPEG2.
But all of us knew that already didn't we

Cheers,

RX-Men-8

[banders100]

I seen a lot of posts for people looking for the firmware downgrade so that BDMV can be played on a BD-RE disc on the Samsung BD-P1000, but I have yet to see a link everyone is asking for to downgrade. Where can I get this as I have the same problem everyone is having, but Samsung won't respond when I email them?

[HDTV1080P]

Samsung is only going to make available their latest firmware. There are several people that most likely have the old firmware on a CD-ROM but since the firmware is the property of Samsung no one most likely will place the old firmware up on their website for legal reasons.
The Samsung BDP-1000 owners only hope is a new firmware update will add BDMV features.

[species]

Sorry to barge in on yr post guys, but a really quick question.

I think i might have made a bit of a boo boo - I've just bought a P1000 from the US - it's on its way now. Now whilst i realised that i would be limited to Blu Ray A regions, i thought given that there were region hacks all over the place for this player, that i'd be able to still watch my pal dvd's.

However looking at the manual i noticed that it says it wont play pal disks whatever the region. Is this true, or does unlocking solve the problem?

Thanks again - happy easter btw.

[mathiass]

Hi,

please, can anyone send me the older BD-P1000 firmware to enable bdtv/avchd again?

thanks

[grinch]

Originally Posted by mathiass

Hi,

please, can anyone send me the older BD-P1000 firmware to enable bdtv/avchd again?

thanks

Ditto - wish I read this first. Really sucks that my AVCHD camcorder won't play on this. Don't want to have to buy another blu-ray player.

Thanks!

[kaos13]

my firmware is a 1.3 would the downgrade work for this? if so could i get the link?

[Deadite]

anyone still have the older firmware ... please help me out

[Jules70]

I just installed the latest firmware v.1.6 from the Samsung site. It fixed the image skipping issue I was having with several new releases like Jumper.

BUTT.......

Now I have a new issue. Blue ray 5.1 audio is messed up and almost reversed. For instance front speaker sound is sent to rear speakers. Standard dvds with 5.1 play perfectly in the correct speakers so this is not a reciever issue. Blue ray 5.1 audio is wrong.

I noticed it immediately when I played Jumper after the upgrade.
I am using the single digital coaxial output for sound.

Any ideas??

[Jules70]

Also, I have two older updates for anyone who has a recent yet stable one I can try

I have
BD-P1000_firmware_June07
BD-P1000_firmware_Feb07

Sorry I don't know which version numbers they are just the ISO file names.

[danielzzz]

i had the same problem, front speakers playing what you should hear on the back ones and visceversa. I fixed that by switching the audio setup from PCM to Bitstream

[zor]

Originally Posted by Deadite

anyone still have the older firmware ... please help me out

did u try calling samsung?

u might want to check the philips website also. the philips bdp9000 is the same as the sammy and some use the sammy firmware on the philips so it's possible the reverse will also work.

[ItsGettingHotInEER]

Originally Posted by zor

did u try calling samsung?

u might want to check the philips website also. the philips bdp9000 is the same as the sammy and some use the sammy firmware on the philips so it's possible the reverse will also work.

Has anyone else tried this. To download the philips firmware and update their Samsung with it, is it more current.