PVR Error - Mustek PVRA1 or Goodmans GPDR-1 / GPDR1 / GDPR 1 [Digg.com This!]

I have the Goodmans GPDR-1, a quite handy little MP4 video recorder. Unfortunately it has an issue where (under what looks like a race condition when you press multiple buttons simultaneously) it sometimes replaces the menu icons with white on black text saying "PVR Error". The device itself works fine, but you can't understand the menu!

I took my first GPDR-1 back to Argos and got a replacement and (touch wood) other than momentarily seeing the "PVR Error" icons (and turning it straight off and on again to recover), I've not had the problem.

Goodmans tech support is useless, saying they haven't seen this problem before. I've recently come across a couple of useful links:

You can flash upgrade the Goodmans (and I assume Mustek, although I've not tried it) from this firmware:

http://pvra1.newmedia.nl/firmware/index.html

I have successfully upgraded my 2.5 device to 2.7.

This page also gives a hint on how you may be able to recover the "PVR Error" icons to their proper equivalent:

http://pvra1.newmedia.nl/gui/manual.html

I haven't tried this yet.

Good luck if you're having this problem. Please leave a comment below or email me so I can keep this page up to date with fixes.