Plextor anticipates releasing in June a new firmware version for the Plextalk PTR1. I know a number of you have already seen the list of firmware enhancements at the Plextalk website. However, I thought it would be helpful to post this for all the rest of us. This list came from the American pages at www. Plextalk.com. Jeff Samco IRTI Grass Valley, California --- Summary of features in new Plextalk firmware, June 2004
* Easy Fast Rewind and Forward Feature Added When you press and hold fast rewind and forward for a while, it continues fast rewind/forward until you press the play key. * Low Battery Warning Feature Added With the existing firmware, when the battery gets low the unit automatically shuts down without any warnings to prevent any recording or memory failures. With the new firmware, users will receive a one minute low battery warning , this way, users can choose to plug the unit into an electrical outlet or stop the recording before the unit automatically shuts down. * Capacity Announcement Feature Added The existing firmware announces the recordable time when a user wants to know the data space. However, a data space in GB or MB is useful instead of recordable time since many users are using high capacity memory cards. New firmware will guide the remaining data volume in MB instead of recordable time as well as data volume of title. * Time Jump Navigation Feature Added The time jump is added in the navigations. You can select one or ten minutes jump by 2 or 8 key and jump 4 or 6 key to quickly reach a specific page. * Selecting waiting sounds or a tone With new firmware users can select 3 difference waiting sounds (Musical waiting sound a single tone or No sound). * Changed The Playback Behavior The existing firmware automatically jumps to the beginning of a new title when a current title comes to an end. New firmware does not jump to the beginning of a new title, user must do it manually to prevent overwriting the original recordings. * Enhanced MP3 playback on the memory card The existing firmware can not play MP3 files in the PC card. New firmware allows playback of MP3 files in the PC card * Changed MP3 or CD-DA playback navigation With the existing firmware, a user can go back to the previous music track by pressing key 4. The new firmware moves to the beginning of the track like standard CD players. * Fast Rewinding and Fast Forwarding sound level With current firmware, the Fast Rewind and Fast Forward features create a noise sound. Thanks to our customers feedbacks we were able to make changes and with the new firmware these features will now have a calm sound level. * No Voice Guide When changing The Main Volume Level According to the users� feedbacks, it is not necessary to guide the playback volume while playing the disc. New firmware will not feature a volume level guide when reading. * Corrected Guidance For 5GB PCMCIA Type II Hard Disk Card The existing firmware can only recognize 2GB cards for recording since the calculation comes from the limitation of maximum one audio file capacity as 2GB. New firmware will guide the whole available recording time and the remaining capacity. * Page and Heading Number Guide For Recording or Editing The existing firmware does not have page or heading guide numbers for when the pages or headings are marked. New firmware will offer these features. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
