Peek At A BI-600E

The Hiteker BI-600E DVD player is essentially an Apex/Hiteker AD-600A player which is found in Europe around The Netherlands area. It looks the same as an AD-600A and has most of the same features as an AD-600A however it contains a Flashrom and the firmware is CDR upgradable. More on this later, but first a peek at the BI-600E.

Front View

Front/Top View

Top View

Left-Side View showing the power supply and DSL-710A drive.

View of main PCB. It is the same as the later model AD-600A units.

Close up view of ES4318 processor and firmware FlashROM

CDR UPGRADES

As said above you can upgrade the firmware in the BI-600E via CDR.

NEW! You can now try the Sampo firmware for BI-600E which does just about EVERYTHING! Click HERE for details.

Click HERE for BI-600E patched Region Free/Macrovision off as a .bin file for programming chips or click HERE for the same firmware as an ISO9660 CDR firmware upgrade image file.

Click HERE for BI-600E patched Region 1/Macrovision off as a .bin file for programming chips or click HERE for the same firmware as an ISO9660 CDR firmware upgrade image file.

If you are experiencing problems with VCD and SVCD playback where the video is fast motion for 1 second and then slow motion for 1 second use THIS FIRMWARE. Beware! This is Region Free firmware BUT Macrovision is enabled.

NOTE: you will need a program capable of burning a .iso image file (like CDRwin). With CDRwin click on the "File Backup and Tools" icon and then use the pulldown menu to select "Record an ISO9660 image file". Select the BI-600E CDR image you have downloaded (either called BI-600E_R0M0.ISO or BI-600E_R1M0.ISO after unzipping it first) and burn!

ALSO NOTE: To CDR upgrade you need a flashrom inside your player already capable of doing CDR upgrades to the firmware. As far as I know all BI-600E machines have a flashrom in them as standard so the CDR upgrade should work fine. If the CDR upgrade does not work for you then your player can only be upgraded by programming the chip in an external chip programmer.

When upgrading starts the screen shows the filename on the screen and the screen may go different colours but this is normal.

When the upgrade is successful you get the following screen:

Screen Shot after a successful CDR upgrade.