Rh397d rh399d - LG RH177 DVD Recorder/HDD Recorder

You must Finalize the Discs to Play on other machines !

The LG RH397D only supports MP3/WMA/JPEG/DivX image and audio files from a USB drive. There is no firmware update that changes the supported file types. You will need to convert the MP4 to a supported format. The manual for the RH397D is available from LG: http://www.lg.com/au/support-product/lg-RH397D# /

I wish that I had better news for you.

Cindy Wells

The only thing you can do is try a DVD cleaning kit and follow instructions, if that fails the laser pickup assembly will need to be replaced, but this would be to expensive and far cheaper to replace the player.

Your DVD drive is having a problem. When this recorder starts, it checks the DVD drive for correctness. If incase your DVD drive is has problem in the ejecting mechanism then this will prevent your HDD from working correctly. Take the player to service center and fix the drive

When you burn a DVD, it is ONLY playable in the RH397D.
Buggy menus - and no way to flash the firmware.
Terribly designed remote.
HDD never seems to spin down, no matter how long it sits.
Doesn't play XVid.

I was a bit disappointed with this product. It does do, what is listed on the box, and one can't be too disappointed with that.

Are you trying to use video plus?try manual setting and in the channel space put av1

The code I found from a trusted website says:

1. Press SETUP
2. Scroll down to the padlock icon
3. Press 0 seven times
   • Confirmation message appears
4. Press ENTER

Which sounds like what you're doing already. This is for RH399D. RH397D may be different.

You need to read page 37 "Dubbing a title"

Select the title you want to record and select the Dubbing option.

Check the ribbon connecting to the HARD Drive...you will need to open the case up..
be careful as the ribbon is very delicate

Hi, try this, works for me
Goto 'Setup' 
Scroll to 'Lock' (don't scroll sideways from here) 
press '0' seven times 
press 'Enter'

Hope it helps you too. Ashley