Latest News and Whats new

14th May 2004

Reports of another LS528C/CS98010 based player available in Canada
The Audiologic ADV802PS - available roughly October 2003
Awaiting details to come through from one of the owners of this machine.

2nd May 2004

Mirror Mirr53 uses similar DVD board to Bush DVD141TV
May in fact be identical machine as firmware is the same.
Thanks to hcas (I Styles??) for this one

14th January 2004

Bush/Goodmans Combo TV section under review.
Click on the hacks link on the left once you select your player to enter the new bit.
This will be tidied up later

3rd November 2003

At some point my firmware upgrade page for the AD-L528
reverted back to the general .ISO file version as opposed to the more specific .NRG one
Anyway its been fixed now - perhaps this happened when the site moved.

19th October 2003

Added an end of your tether link for those that are really stuck
With menu system screen dumps to aid in identifying your player

18th October 2003

Region hack for Bush DVD-143TV found by Paris here

13th October 2003

Pictures of REC 850 uploaded

9th October 2003

REC850 received - it's nothing like an adl-528 - see here

1st October 2003

Service Manual for Goodmans GTV14DVD has arrived
second page is P1420-IVVD1 which is the Starlight part number

27th September 2003

Discovered Bush 2005 is MT1388E based

24th September 2003

Finally fixed bugs list for 105e/y13z14 as random function in mp3 is back

20th September 2003

Attempt at Hand drawn circuit diagram of AD-L 528 Power Supply added

19th September 2003

Test pages etc. comparing different firmwares in the AD-L528
and also other players

17th September 2003

Small Shop opening soon

16th September 2003

Ordered Service Manual for Goodmans GTV14DVD (10-14 days)
Manufacturers request for availability of Service Manual for GTV34RDVD. (14-21 days)

14th September 2003

Due to mis-information supplied to me it would appear that the GTV343RDVD is not LS528/C98010 based.
Under the circumstances I will try and track down a suitable hack and publish this.

Re-instated older version of Kotrons circuit diagrams as well as the newer one.
The older one is poorer quality but covers the Kotrons PSU

12th September 2003

Appears that REC850 are similar to AD-L528 or DVD-101 so added its own section
Rumours of Amstrad 850 and not sure at all about R800

10th September 2003

Monsters Inc problem only affects AD-L 528 player running 10.01
Was listed against all players so Removed

9th September 2003

Monsters Inc problems solved under PDL0105E-030220 Y13Z14 for AD-L528
Nero Image also generated for above

5th September 2003

With Tonibals help - Intermittent black screen power on problem resolved.
Click here to see

1st September 2003

Apparently Sansui DVX2000 is also LS528C based

28th August 2003

Beta version of PDL0105E-030220 Y13Z14 now on-line for Cyberhome ADL-528

28th July 2003

A few broken links on the site sorted out during the day
Some still remain or point to the wrong place
Also a problem with the main title page being overwritten

from somewhere hopefully now resolved.

Latest 27th July 2003

The site has moved to

WWW.ADL528.COM

No further work will be done to the old site

Several sites will now be combined.

Fairly severe overhaul of the site.

Left hand side now select your player.
Only other addition is that contents of Tiny12 chip added
to section with data sheets temporarily.

23rd June

Started the following
www.dvd-101.com and forum.dvd-101.com
But hadn't said

19th June

Started a non-Cyberhome forum for LS528C/CS98010 based dvd players - see here

15th June

E2prom contents now decoded for various firmwares - see here

14th June

E2prom contents decoded for 13-0927 firmware - see here

13th June

Bush DVD142TV not 528 based it's Sti5508 based - see clones section

12th June

Beta Test of New firmware confirmed - see screen dump

Bugs lists status

9th June

Added Homepage link at top of title page as this appears to be where search engines are coming in.

4th June

Contents of DVD-101 Firmware dumped seee clones section on the left

What's new

15th May 2003

Just made 302's 9.48EX firmware available for download in the clones section.
Also the 1.7B for the Dm126D drive only also available

14th May 2003

Various broken links around the place fixed
Alternative drives page fixed.
CS98100 Datasheets links problem fixed
various links on this page fixed

GTV51DVD confirmed as not being a close relative of the 528

27th April 2003

New info/theory regarding upgrade problem
If you can't upgrade from 13-0927 to 10.01 please read this link
http://forum.cyberhome-help.de/viewtopic.php?t=1454

24th April 2003

Added request for info to all Combo TV owners
removed most of requests for donations as never received any

23rd April 2003

Details of another combo cousin the Goodmans GTV14DVD
Thanks to kacewickham for that one

22nd April 2003

Fixed alternative drives link
some of the original links in the clones section got lost
during the move - they've been re-instated

21st April 2003

Basic Clones section up and running

20th April 2003

The whole Clone section is about to get an overhaul in view of recent events
New clone/cousin discovered - All-Tel DVD101 (Thanks to Maurizio)
Request for help from Bush DVD combo owners
specifically dvd141Tv but DVD140tv and DVD142TV owners also usefull

17th April 2003

DVD-Writing section - Zipped both prassi software
and engine update together into easily download bale file

8th April 2003

Limit JDV-300A - Just received this player and it is definately not a clone
Also just received a 1.7B firmware file for the DM126D
which I'm going to test and make available if confirmed.
Thanks to BanaSplit for that one

12th February 2003

Another possibly clone or close cousin machine found - see clones section

11th February 2003

Possibly another clone/variant found the Medion MD3702

10th February 2003

Circuit diagram of DVD player section of DVD141TV here with comments
Added request to CH302 owners

6th February 2003

Just received Service Manual for Bush DVD141TV see comments here

15th January 2003

Dragonsf confirms SVCD stuttering problem under 10.01

14th January 2003

Bug list updated - SVCD stuttering
Added clarification to the can't upgrade problem

9th January 2003

***Circuit Diagram for Kotron DVD-101 found***

8th January 2003

Yes I'm back - Not a lot to report though.
Phoenix project closed as cyberhome-help.de is back
Total donations to date - none
New Clone discovered - thanks to Hirsty for that one
302 screen dumps found on web

23rd November 2002

Temporary Phoenix project activated

forum.cyberhome-dvd-help.com

15th November 2002

Added Video output Setup change between A9.xx and 10.01

14th November 2002

Added Service info to the stuck on 13-0927 problem
and added non - uk service centres to the Service Info link

13th November 2002

Added poor attempt at multi-lingual by adding babelfish translation to left menu

Added following to left menu
Factory reset
powered by luxsonor function

Added Multiregion hack to 3358 code

12th November 2002

Added a donation link for future Research and Development.
If you have a spare Pound/Dollar or Euro - please consider donating.

Modified Paypal wording slightly incase people thought Paypal were sponsoring the site

11th November 2002

Added check for S-Video before upgrading to 10.01
so that you don't get black screen after upgrade
Also Version A9.33E firmware discovered so added to list
I've dug out the old info regarding drives that allowed upgrades/downgrades
to see if that info would be useful for those currently stuck on non 10.01 machines

Added log of firmware reprograms that took place at bottom left of menu

8th November 2002

Very minor change regarding Macrovision Hack and link to Upgrading

31st October 2002

Bullfrog becomes a Moderator on forum.cyberhome-help.de

Expect to see some activity there soon.

Some of this sites FAQ's will soon be there.

30th October 2002

Added a list etc. of improvements you will expect to get with 10.01

Melvin announced forum to continue some while ago
so will gradually get rid of phoenix project and similar info
when time permits

24th October 2002

Added link to Cyberhomes firmware page for other players

19th October 2002

18th October 2002

For some reason last nights updates didn't take - so trying again.

17th October 2002

Just added a few more possible clones to the clones page

16th October 2002

Apparently there are some clones and DVD/TV combis
Out there so dedicated a page to them

15th October 2002

Been a bit busy recently more on that at a later date.

Put the DVD-R writing page on-line
Will have to do the screen dumps some other time
Also changed the latest link as nothing new to report.

Tuesday 8th October 2002

There would appear to be a rather significant problem with the survey

I've asked if everyone would e-mail me their answers as well if possible

As an interim fix

Sunday 6th October 2002

DVD-R writing page added to link on left menu
will come on-line night of 8th October 2002

Saturday 5th October 2002

Added quick temporary black page fix after power on

Added problem DVD's link to the left menu (Monsters Inc)

Remote control chip number added to Datasheet page

Wording changed on black screen problems

Left hand menu changed to seperate the 2 black screen fixes.

Friday 4th October 2002

Problem with Menu on left 'stuck on 10.01' taking you to mp3 problem
Now fixed

Unhidden the standard counter and given explanation

Thursday 3rd October 2002

Alternative Drive links now on-line
63MB of ISO image downloads in last 2 days
Resolution for Mp3 blip blop under 10.01 added to troubleshooting

Wednesday 2nd October 2002

Changed incorrect reference from LCD to Flourescent in Bugs list.
Added request for 302 to be brought into line as well.
OK starting to sort out all the old data regarding stuck on 10.01

Tuesday 1st October 2002

All links to external sites now open full screen
(All frames as far as I know - If I've missed any let me know)
Fixed a couple of links
Wish List updated in bugs section
All Firmwares now available as Nero ISO Images
Old Adaptec/Winoncd ISO images put on backoffice server (max 64Kuplink)
to free up space for Nero Images

Friday 27th Sept 2002

Wish list added to bugs/features list

Thursday 26th Sept 2002

Added a doc file of Atmel Circuit in block diagrams page- To be confirmed
Modified block diagram with codecs S/PDIF outputs via adapter
Block Diagram is now V1.3
Please note diagrams are now zipped versions of Native word 2000 documents
Gremlins in the system - click refresh to get uptodate pages.

Wednesday 25th Sept 2002

More Clarification of the MP3 bugs in 10.01 and example of blip-blop noises added

Small start on 10.01 functionality changes

Tuesday 24th Sept 2002

Block Diagram Updated now V1.2

Monday 23rd Sept 2002

54Mb of ISO Images Downloaded Since Friday 20th

More bugs added to the list

Block Diagram added and some info learnt
Hopefully a guest book is now up and running

Block diagram updated as Atmel Tiny Processor
appears to control power supply standby control
while monitoring Infra-red probably for power button

Ooops it's called the 3358 hack so I'm telling everyone
to press 3588 Needless to say that's been changed

22nd Sept 2002

Rather a lot
Menus have changed a couple of times
A few additions
listed a few bugs
added 3358 hack
added variant on 1999 hack
Hope you like the changes

21st Sept 2002

Yet more sections added and a few spelling mistakes corrected

20th Sept 2002

Some new sections added - not all active yet

Re-arranged Menu again on Left hand side

18th Sept 2002

Nero 5.5.9.9 .iso files seem to work in all previously non-working drives

No more file corrupt messages on 528 when inserted.

Various links around the place ammended to point ot new findings.

Will remove all the other info regarding which drives can't upgrade/downgrade as now irrelevent

17th Sept 2002

Ok - rather a lot of updates around the place

more dvd loaders
More details given regarding all drives tested in an attempt to downgrade
Spelling mistakes corrected
10.01 warning updated
Firmware question in survey split into 2 parts
various other small updates

3rd Sept 2002

Added Hirsty's Macrovision hack to troubleshooting/hacks section
Re-arranged left frame moving troubleshooting/hacks section up

2nd Sept 2002

Very few updates except on the firmwares page as some browsers had a problem reaching the 10.01 ISO link.
Please note the ISO images are known not to work with Nero.I'll sort that out shortly.
Please don't use the survey to ask questions as I cannot determine your e-mail address to reply to.
Some units now shipping with a Pan-International DVD drive so added this to list

11th Aug 2002

Ok Added list of drives that allow upgrades and those that don't to News Flash and Latest Links

All firmwares now have ISO images on-line as I have been able to test them
The firmware version numbers have typos all over the place so have corrected them

10th Aug 2002

Discovered reason for 10.01 firmware stuck problem
See Newsflash for details

Added above to troubleshooting section and tidied text in newsflash.
added text to 10.01 warnings

8th Aug 2002

Gave the site a Title also an error in the links page

Added some more links courtesy of dragonsf

Small tidy up in the firmware updates page.
Also added reference to the Tiny/Time version of the player
available in the UK which had a sunburst logo on screen
as opposed to the standard cyberhome offering.
If you have this player with it's original firmware
I might be tempted to purchase it off you so make me an offer
Mail Me

7th Aug 2002

Extended hacks link on left to now include trouble shooting

troubleshooting/hacks link now changes left frame at bottom
I keep being asked about the black screen after upgrade so I've a link now on how to correct this

6th Aug 2002

Updated the hackers page
Calculations for adding all the bytes together for each firmware totally off
Today appears to be a bad day
you'll notice that for 10.01 the paper label matches the last 4 digits
of all the bytes added together (A standard eprom CRC programming check)

Ignore everything in small text all totally wrong - well done Bullfrog - not
Evidently I'm having a bad day

I've been sent indirectly the correct 15E20-11-0829 firmware from Cyberhome
Now have all 6 firmwares on-line
It will take a while for all pages to come back into sync
Hackers page has some incorrect info on it
I've marked that
also mislabelled explanation has been fixed

3rd Aug 2002 added a Latest Info Link above

2nd Aug 2002

Appears to be a problem with survey please e-mail me your answers

Modified Survey with a box for your Nickname or Forum Name
Also have put an asterix next to the more important Answers.
The others would be useful but I suspect have no bearing now on the Upgrade/Downgrade procedure problem.

1st Aug 2002

Updated the link further down this page.Your players info needed which was pointing to the old survey
Modified survey to mention U5 heatsink and also changed button regarding guestbook to send survey

30th July 2002

Added CS98010 as replacement for LS528 in Datasheet section

29th July 2002

Updated Your players info needed to be a form that you fill in

26th July 2002

Hopefully I've made it clearer what info I'm looking about your player
and how to find it out - click on Your players info needed

Small correction in mislabelled firmware A948E-15E20-11-0927
Added link for User Manuals
keep those suggestions coming
Updated this page

25th July 2002

Added Picture of Version 2 PCB to the Your Players Info Needed link
Modified Datasheet page regarding DVD Loaders
Added Explanation regarding mislabelled 11-0927 firmware
updated view so you can see Version 1 and 2 PCB's on same page

24 July 2002

Added link to DM126D dvd loader datasheet (probably standard firmware)

23 July 2002

U1 now confirmed
Acknowledgements extended
Your help needed please click on the appropriate link to the left
Added region free hack

22 July 2002

Cosmetic change Only

21 July 2002

Added Frames to make it easier to navigate - hopefully