First, you absolutely at the right place, you can't find a better one

Bad news: I don't believe that any firmware would help based on the symptoms in your description.
Good news: You don't need another 6 years
http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=12859617&framed=yIt's not the latest version, I just wanted to prove that it works.
If nothing can scare you you are welcome to revisit:
http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=11381366&framed=yHTH
Phuoc Can HUA
moonreflection wrote:
First, I'm sorry if this is not the appropriate place to ask this question. Anyway, this seems like the only place I can find anyone who knows anything about California electronics. I have the California electronics that works about 6 months. Now it would not recognize any of the DVD disk. I turn it on and it would scan for a while then said no disk found. A month ago, it would recognize after maybe 5 or 6 times turning off and on but now it failed completely. I thought maybe if there exist a firmware or maybe update that can fix this problem.
I've also started a project on the karaoke players over 6 years ago and play around decoding these disk. I never completely finish. It looks like I should finish up my project. This looks like a good place to get some info. Good works guys!
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