{"id":26077,"date":"2002-11-25T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2002-11-25T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/11\/25\/fix-for-extended-dvd-woes-2\/"},"modified":"2002-11-25T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2002-11-25T21:33:40","slug":"fix-for-extended-dvd-woes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/11\/25\/26077-fix-for-extended-dvd-woes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix for Extended DVD Woes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Ringer Spy BigJohn<\/b> writes in to let us know that if you&#8217;ve been unable to watch your FOTR:EX DVDs on a Samsung SD-616 DVDROM drive (typically found in Dell and HP desktop PCs) &#8211; Samsung have now released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsungelectronics.com\/odd\/support\/downloads\/400055_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Firmware Update<\/a> which apparently fixes the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Dell should also have this available to download from their <a href=\"http:\/\/search.dell.com\/results_data_support.asp?seg=dhs&#038;category=sup&#038;subcategory=dyd&#038;subsubcategory=&#038;headlineText=ADVANCED&#038;kwfilter=all&#038;keywords=samsung+dvd+firmware&#038;resultsloc=&#038;queryOffset=0&#038;queryMaxHits=20&#038;queryMaxHitsPerPage=20&#038;numFilters=1&#038;queryStartItem=1&#038;SIM=&#038;categoryOn=-1&#038;tSummary=0&#038;imageOn=-1&#038;manufacturer=&#038;availability=&#038;price1=&#038;price2=&#038;keywords2=&#038;filtercategory=&#038;filtersubcategory=&#038;ranking=-1&#038;syssurvey=+&#038;snpsurvey=&#038;sersurvey=+&#038;supsurvey=&#038;abtsurvey=&#038;surveyLU=True&#038;wf_1=not&#038;wft_1=&#038;wfrl_1=body&#038;rlevel=2\" target=\"_blank\">Download Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>N.B. Please check the model and current firmware on your DVDROM before attempting to upgrade the firmware &#8211; and only continue if the model type <i>exactly<\/i> matches that of the firmware &#8211; and if the current firmware is older than the propsed upgrade.  <font color=\"#FF0000\">Incorrect firmware upgrades WILL permenantly damage your DVDROM drive<\/font>. (I know &#8211; it&#8217;s happened to me.)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Also, be sure to re-run the System Diagnostic of PowerDVD (or equivalent in other DVD playback software) after upgrading firmware to ensure success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringer Spy BigJohn writes in to let us know that if you&#8217;ve been unable to watch your FOTR:EX&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6MB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}