Today when I started up the Panasonic Blu-ray Player DMP-BDT210 there was a screen message that there was a new firmware version available. After some online research I found the following information on the update:
Version 1.80
Released 02/06/2012
VIERA Connect update
Playability of 3D Blu-ray Disc
(At the time of this post I only found information on the firmware update on Panasonic's Japan's website and not North America's. Click here for the details I found.)
Keeping with my belief that it is always best to have the most current firmware version loaded to your components, I went about processing the update. Panasonic has made this process very easy with the DMP-BDT210 when it is connected to your LAN. You simply go through the Setup Menu to the "Other" section and select Firmware Update.
The player then connects to the Panasonic servers and downloads the new version. The entire process is self contained once started and no user interaction is required. The player will reset and start up again once the firmware has been downloaded and installed. This time around the entire process only took about 10 minutes.
It should be noted that I have my Panasonic Blu-ray Player connected via the integrated wireless connection. The connection point is my D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router DIR-655 located about 20 feet away in another room. The wireless signal passes through one interior wall at a 90 degree angle. As good as it will get at this location.
This is the second firmware update that I have installed on the Panasonic DMP-BDT210 since I purchased it. The first one was for version 1.70 which came out after the date of manufacturing on the unit that I purchased. That update was just as easy as this one.
My BDT210 is connected to internet using WiFi. When firmware version 1.88 was released by Panasonic, and I tried to upgrade..it keeps getting stuck during download. I tried more then 15 times...and every time it will stop during download. Therefore, I followed this link steps to create a firmware update CD and used it to update player firmware:
ReplyDeletehttp://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/bd/download/bdt110/bdt110_na.html
I used Win7 to create the CD and it worked fine.
Thank you for the information. The instructions of the CD-R creation process are included with the Panasonic release notes on version 1.88 update. Since I was behind in updating my BDT210 I did not update the firmware until 09/21/2012. This was a full two months after the update was released to the public.
ReplyDeleteI have never had trouble downloading firmware updates over a network connection either wireless or wired. For the BDT210 I can say that all three of the updates that I have loaded, 1.70, 1.80 and 1.88, were done so with a wireless connection to my network.
Thank you for the note on updating firmware with a CD-R from data downloaded from the web.
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