{"id":316,"date":"2017-01-04T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2018-04-22T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T09:40:52","slug":"philips-vp415","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=316","title":{"rendered":"Philips VP415 General Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1733\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Philips-VP415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Philips-VP415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philips VP415 LaserVision laserdisc player<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Documentation<\/h1>\n<p>You can download a copy of the VP415 Operating Instructions from the following link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Philips-VP415-Operating-Instructions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philips VP415 Operating Instructions<\/a> (1.63 MBytes)<\/p>\n<p>You can download a copy of the VP415 Service manual from the following link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Philips-VP415-Service-Manual-hires.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philips VP415 Service Manual<\/a> (high resolution 85 MBytes)<\/p>\n<h1>EPROMs<\/h1>\n<h2>Purpose<\/h2>\n<p>The Philips VP415 contains several EPROMs on the various circuit modules.\u00a0 The list of EPROMs (and their purpose) is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Module R:\n<ul>\n<li>6803 - Drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Module S:\n<ul>\n<li>6804 - Control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Module W:\n<ul>\n<li>6805 - LV-DOS EPROM #1<\/li>\n<li>6806 - LV-DOS EPROM #2<\/li>\n<li>6807 - Descrambler<\/li>\n<li>6808 - Sync<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A survey of the various ROM software releases is shown in the service manual including the checksums for the images (use Checksum-16 in HXD hex-editor to confirm them).\u00a0 The various releases are shown in the following diagram:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1877\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VP415-ROM-version-survey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VP415-ROM-version-survey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VP415 ROM version survey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Note: The checksum for LVDOS#1 version 1.4 is incorrect in the service manual and should be 0x8F90.<\/p>\n<h2>ROM Images<\/h2>\n<p>The following zip file contains all of the ROM images collected so far.\u00a0 The file name includes the Philips identifier for the ROM, the module name, the version number and the Checksum-16 checksum value for the image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VP415-ROM-images.zip\">VP415 ROM images<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>D8041AHC Slave-CPU images<\/h1>\n<p>The Philips VP415 has 8041 slave-CPUs on both the control module (S) and the CPU module (W).\u00a0 The 8041 contains 1Kbyte of internal OTP ROM.\u00a0 The following zip file contains a dump of each 8041's internal ROM in Intel HEX format:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VP415-Module-S-and-W-8041-Slave-CPU-images.zip\">VP415 Module S and W 8041 Slave CPU images<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>VP415 Panels<\/h1>\n<p>The following photograph shows the front panel of the VP415:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1736\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Philips-VP415-Font-panel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Philips-VP415-Font-panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philips VP415 LaserVision Player - Front panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The following photograph shows the rear of the VP415 including the various ports and DIP switches for configuration:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1734\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Philips-VP415-Back-panel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Philips-VP415-Back-panel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philips VP415 LaserVision Player - Back panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentation You can download a copy of the VP415 Operating Instructions from the following link: Philips VP415 Operating Instructions (1.63 MBytes) You can download a copy of the VP415 Service manual from the following link: Philips VP415 Service Manual (high resolution 85 MBytes) EPROMs Purpose The Philips VP415 contains several EPROMs on the various circuit modules.\u00a0 The list of EPROMs <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=316\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Philips VP415 General Information<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}