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Jakeasuno

Toshiba XE1 Video Output Issue

Hey folks, So I picked up a cheap XE1 which was on an old troublesome firmware with the freezing on boot/read issues. The player was finicky but ultimately did work. I updated to 2.5 from the ISOs on archive.org but now my TV just shows an unsupported resolution error. I have tried everything except switching to composite and can't get the picture back. I have gone through both the EUR and AUS versions of firmware and even tried moving up to 4.0 but no difference.

Anyone have any idea what to do? I have managed to work through the menus blindly to switch the resolution between all options but still nothing. I was hoping there were some service button combinations to force some magic to happen, but the service manual just says "replace main unit" after the very basic checks...

Posted Oct 25, 2025, 5:57 PM UTC

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