It was about time I registered for this community, and acknowledged Frank Granovski's kind help in diagnosing my MX300 glitch problem, and providing Stuart Cooper's contact info. Thank you Frank!

Also, I read through all the threads about this glitching problem with the MX300, and all this information was really helpful. Thank you all!

I am a MX300 owner from the Netherlands currently living in Israel. There are no Panasonic service centers in Israel capable of doing the firmware upgrade. When I first contacted the Panasonic service center in the Netherlands, they wrote back to me saying that they did not know about the firmware upgrade. But after I sent them the Panasonic technical bulletin (techbull.pdf, see http://www.dvfreak.com/techbull.pdf, need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read this document), they acknowledged that they would be able to perform this firmware upgrade. They did not say whether it would be 1.5 or 1.6, though.

I posted the address of the Panasonic service center in the Netherlands to the "List of Service Centers who can do Firmware Upgrade 1.6" thread (see http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...&threadid=7265).

I haven't actually sent my camera to them yet, as I am worried about sending such an expensive camera off. I may wait with the upgrade until I am able to take the camera somewhere myself (I travel quite extensively for work). So please do not take this as an endorsement of this service center's quality of workmanship.

If anyone has actually had the firmware upgrade done at Panasonic Nederland, I'd be interested to know if they did it properly.

Welcome Ariel! Nice to see that you finally made it here. The members here are very friendly and helpful, however, I wished more MX owners would join us to make this a larger pool of experience. Thank you for you're other post.

I suggest you contact Pana before sending them your cam. Also, if you do send it, get in insured. You never know what could happen.