This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: DVR repair in Los Angeles area

Friday, November 19, 2010

[Avid-L2] Re: DVR repair in Los Angeles area

Wow, three replies in just a few minutes. Thank you.

Question: is updating this firmware something I can do for my decks that currently don't need other service? We have occasional, and somewhat erratic, frame-accuracy problems. Who knows... maybe a firmware update would help. Anyone have a helpful link?

Michael

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Quinsee-Jover" <tony@...> wrote:
>
> About 3 years ago I sent off a DSR1500 that had marginal tracking and kept
> displaying dropout when my other machines didn't. By the time they'd
> tweaked the alignment and added all the software updates the bill was over
> £1200 - that's around $1800!
>
> The engineers doing the maintenance insisted that I had all the
> software/firmware updates or they wouldn't guarantee the job.
>
> So I agree with Steve - $400 sounds dead cheap.
>
> Tony
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> HD Heaven Media Limited (company no: 07061040) is registered in England and
> Wales at Sapphire Heights Courtyard, 31 Tenby Street North, Birmingham B1
> 3ES
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Steve Hullfish
> Sent: 19 November 2010 16:45
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] DVR repair in Los Angeles area
>
> $400 sounds reasonable to me. Updating software on modern decks is pretty
> common. I have one fairly old deck and updating the software on it cured at
> least one problem that I'd been experiencing. Sometimes it adds new
> functionality. Sometimes it improves a codec or error checking or something.
> Sometimes the software that runs the deck has a bug in it that's just like a
> bug in any other software. Updating the firmware solves it or masks it.
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
> On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Michael wrote:
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> > I've got a couple of DSR-1500s that are eating tapes. Can anyone recommend
> a good shop/person in the Los Angeles area? The first place I called
> estimated $400 each, not including parts, which seemed rather steep.
> >
> > Also: this guy mentioned updating the firmware on the deck. I have never
> heard of such a thing. Have any of you? Extensive googling turns up nothing.
>
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