Holy Crap! *GOOD* DL Burner hits the market!

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:58 am **Post subject:**

New RPC1 firmware, should be stable, anyone want to take the plunge?
http://pioneerdvd.rpc1.org/DVR-108%20v1 ... nx4all.zip

Also, GUI for DVRFlash has been released to make you upflashing and backflashing when it all goes tits up easier :
http://pioneerdvd.rpc1.org/DVRFlashGUIv0.5.rar

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:11 pm **Post subject:**

I ended up buy the Lite-On DVDRW SOHW-1633S an have been very satisfied so far anyway..

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:07 pm **Post subject:**

Final version of the hacked firmware nx4all for the Pioneer 108 has been released and seems to be stable (for me anyway), unlocks rip speed and makes the drive RPC1

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=2 ... highlight=

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:17 am **Post subject:**

neat, extra ripping speed will come in handy

DL media still hasn't come down in price yet :matrix:

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:19 am **Post subject:**

'bout bloody time. Mine's still region locked!

Good job I've got a RPC1 107 in the same machine. :lol:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:11 pm **Post subject:**

I use DVDidle, saves wear and tear and makes everything region free

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:45 pm **Post subject:**

John_Doe wrote:

I ended up buy the Lite-On DVDRW SOHW-1633S an have been very satisfied so far anyway..

hey so it does the job well then? i jus bought one of these today.

also seeing as this is my 1st foray into dvd burning wot soft should i be running for what jobs?

John_Doe · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:53 pm **Post subject:**

yup. still no problems here.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:03 pm **Post subject:**

Purple.Nightmare wrote:

also seeing as this is my 1st foray into dvd burning wot soft should i be running for what jobs?

I'm almost exclusively running Nero still

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:37 pm **Post subject:**

John_Doe wrote:

yup. still no problems here.

thats good to hear

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:17 pm **Post subject:**

PC_Arcade wrote:

Purple.Nightmare wrote:

also seeing as this is my 1st foray into dvd burning wot soft should i be running for what jobs?

I'm almost exclusively running Nero still

:-o

I use nero only for data DVDs (ie just burning avis)

everything else you want something that will burn so your discs have better readability. I've found DVDdecrypter is the best of the crop (or good quality burn and easy) for doing images.

If you have two folders (video_ts/audio_ts), use IMGtool classic, make an iso and then burn with dvddecrypter.

killingjokezzz · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:50 pm **Post subject:**

What are the max burns speeds owners are getting with the pioneer dvr108? Just tried 16x to a 4x verbatim + disc. Seemed to burn OK but failed the verification at 97%. However the disk itself is fine and works perfectly.

Strangely though the 16x burn itself was not much quicker than a 6x speed??

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:57 pm **Post subject:**

thats impressive

Actually, I tend to be sticking to the speed on the tin, normally just burn Datawrites at 8x

Quote:

Strangely though the 16x burn itself was not much quicker than a 6x speed??

Well its the staggered burn speed on media that doesn't support it correctly. @ 16speed should be about 9mins

killingjokezzz · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:09 pm **Post subject:**

Quote:

thats impressive

Actually Nero defaulted to 16x, so it was more by accident than design and I didn't mean to do it.

I guess the slowness of the 16x write was due to media. Took 12 minutes which thinking about it now is quite a bit quicker than a 6x write. My mistake.

Is there any way the drive could get damaged doing 16x to 4x media?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:14 pm **Post subject:**

nope, not beyond the 'damage' you get from use in general (ie. wear and tear).

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:56 am **Post subject:**

Just upgraded to a newer Pioneer drive - the 110D

Just thought I alert you all to the fact that http://www.play.com are doing this drive for ?29.99 including shipping AND you can cross flash the drive to the A10XLA which allows for dvd-ram burning and use of the quietdrive utility (Small points I know)

This will problably be the last DVD writer I buy and it's a bargain, save ~?10 over the 110 with shipping from SVP etc

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:33 pm **Post subject:**

Let us know how it performs, its done pretty badly in reviews compared to NEC. That's in contrast to previous generations.

I'm keeping an eye on the SATA plextor, if i buy another its probably going to be that.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:43 pm **Post subject:**

I vowed NEVER to buy NEC again after their dismal earlier drives, they cost too much and were utter shite, I'll let you know on this one.

I looked at the plextors, but I really don't see the point for the money they cost, this will tide me over until the blue ray / HD-DVD drives start plummeting in price

Holy Crap! GOOD DL Burner hits the market!

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