Re: [Dvdrtools-users] pioneer DVR-105 and dvdrtools

[Alessio Sangalli]

A E Lawrence wrote:

> It looks as if you have been caught by Pioneer or rather the
> manufacturers' of expensive media :-(
>
>  From what one gathers, the firmware in the 105 and also the latest
> updates for the 104 (don't upgrade beyond 1.32, 104 and A04 owners), are
> designed to refuse to write on cheap media even when it gives perfect
> results.

I don't really think so because I'm able to write DVDs with the patched 
version of cdrecord, without any kind of problems. From what I've heard 
the firmware situation is the exact opposite: with the newer 
(unofficial) firmwares you can even write at 2x on 1x media!!! That's great.


> Which means that we have stop buying Pioneer drives until they change
> this policy. I was just about to order a 105 drive, but happened 


The pioneer drives are referred as the most 'compatible' ones. You can 
be quite sure that you dvd will be read on any computer and even 
stand=alone dvd players and ps2 etc etc. This is surely not true with 
dvd+r media, which is going to die in the next few months.



The only thing I can say is that there is a problem with dvdrtools, I 
would be glad to help to solve it. Using the pathched version of 
cdrecord gives perfect results.


bye
as