News of CD-R/CD-RW Drives

http://cgi.teac.de/dspd/downloads/datasheets/dbl_cdw552e.pdf

What does that mean??
Is it one of thoes technologies where audio burning has an extra quality to it? Like Plextor and Yamaha did?

It seems that cdrwin 4.0a that i have doesn't recognize my LG GCE-8481B. Is there anyway i can make it work? Thx

GuJack20

I bought a Samsung 348B because of the great reviews I read. What interest me also was according to CDR Labs review:

If you use a lot of 99 minute CD-R discs you should be happy that Samsung's new combo drive had no problems recognizing our 99 minute CompUSA media and reading it until the very end. The drive reached a maximum read speed of about 50x before it dropped off.

The one I purchased ...

Can somebody tell me the difference between this two firmwares (v. 1.1 and 1.2) because I couldn't find anything on the ASUS site!

With the collective knowledge on this forum, I'm sure somehow can help me out & I would be eternally grateful.

I have a Pacific Digital 48/12/48 CD-RW - turns out it is a Lite-On 48125W. I previously successfully flashed it to VS08 because it would not write at the max speed of 48x. Everything worked fine after that firmware upgrade. I downloaded the firmware upgrade directly from the Lite-On website.

However, this past weekend, I ...

:cry: I just bought a Sony Vaio a couple of months ago and have emailed Sony support several times and they haven't answered, so your my next hope! I haven't been able to write to a blank CD-R. I can write to a CD that has already been written to and I can write to a CD-RW. I have tried several types of CDs - Maxwell, Verbatim ...

New firmware 1.05 for Plextor PlexCombo 20/10/40-10A (PX-W320A)

18 February 2003

PX-W320A V1.05

Added:
Limit read speed for digital playback of audio CD to 4X to avoid noise
Increase read speed for DVD-Video by pressing eject switch
Fixed Bugs:
Cannot initialise small-capacity DVD's
Cannot initialise unfinalized DVD-RW written in VR mode
Cannot boot from bootable DVD's
Reboot when trying to play DVD-Audio

http://www.plextor.be/english/technical ... _320A.html
(Plextor Europe)

Hi..
Remember we've talked about the new drive from Teac, will it be reviewed, how is Teac's support when it comes down firmware, the long time or no time at all it takes them to answer back etc..

Like some others i was disappointed as well by the sharp allegations towards Teac.

Well, to their defence i'll put here the content of my email conversations i had with them:

ME:
Hello.
I was wondering if ...

i flashed it to 1.1 and it screwed up.
now i can't flash back to the original
it's .afs
does anyone know how to help ?
thanks a lot

"...the new pricing will go into effect on April 1st. Hopefully this isn't just one big April Fool's day joke " (Ian) :lol: :lol: