Centrum Xamba 500

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Recently (12/2005) I bought a Centrum Xamba 500 HD/DVD Recorder in Munich at NetOnNet.
It is very well featured but with it's actual Firmware really awful to navigate through menus and handle.
A big Handicap is the missing Feature to edit recorded Film Material (e.g. recoding at lower bitrate, cutting Features... maybe in next Firmware Release of Xamba 500 ?)

Centrum Xamba 500 HD/DVD Recorder Service Menu

After research in Internet and playing around I found a "secret mode" key combination (Service Menu) which offers some interesting settings like PAL, 480 Progressive Scan, 576 Progressive Scan, Firmware Version, Scart (on/off), RegionCode (0,1,2,3,4,5)

Access to Service Mode Menu:

on Remote Control

  • Press Open Disc Tray (Open/Close)
  • Press ZOOM Button about 3 seconds
  • Press Enter
[FrontPage Save Results Component]
Service Mode Setting
SERVICE MODE SETTING
    System BR_ET_7200_2-4_20040826 :364
    Region Code   
    TV System: PAL
    SCART ON
    Servo Version MH70404C-1 Ldr
    CARDREADER OFF

 

 

Firmware Upgrade Centrum Xamba 500

Default (shipping) Firmware Version seems to be 364

WARNING: Firmware upgrade seems to reformat the Harddisk of the Xamba 500!

I try it when saving all HD-Records to DVD..

0915 Korrigiert Fehler während des Kopiervorgangs beim Kopieren von Dateien von Festplatte auf DVD, erstreckt sich über mehrere CDs (2,2 MB; xamba500_0915.zip).

0630 Neue Funktionen: Medienspeicher und Zeitsynchronisation. Kleinere Korrekturen bei u.a. Kanaleinstellungen und Menüs (2,2 MB; xamba500_0630.zip).

(c) by Wolfgang Zerzawy 07-Mai-08 12:11   

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