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Why no In house review of NEC 3500?

PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:03 am
by chiphead
This is the drive that's been getting a lot of accolades recently and CDRLabs, the best DVDRW site on the web, doesn't have a review yet. What's wrong with this picture??? :wink:

PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:49 am
by mpkelley20
This was discussed in another thread. I believe they are waiting for new firmware to be relased. see link below

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic. ... 9&start=50

PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:01 am
by Ian
We just got in the retail kit as well...

PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:11 am
by Wesociety
Ian wrote:We just got in the retail kit as well...

What is the latest firmware you have from NEC? O:)

PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:51 am
by Ian
wesociety wrote:What is the latest firmware you have from NEC? O:)


2.16 is what's on the drive and that is all they will give me. I've been bugging their engineers for months to give me something newer and they won't. It's too bad since the drive would probably do better in our testing.

While I understand that they want to test and perfect their firmware updates, NEC could really learn a lesson from Lite-On and BenQ about releasing them more often.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:23 am
by Wesociety
I agree.
It seems that only the OEM customers can get NEC to release new firmwares more frequently.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:32 am
by dolphinius_rex
from what I've heard, there is MASSIVE testing going on for the new firmware for the NEC 3500a. Whatever it turns out to be, it should be very good I'm told... but as you say Ian, it's too bad they can't release something now, so the review will be more favourable. Not to say that drive isn't good already... but I think it could be a little better :wink:

PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:14 am
by pchilson
Ian wrote:I've been bugging their engineers for months to give me something newer and they won't.

I'll bet they backed up the new firmware work on a Princo and the development machines crashed and now they can't retrieve their work... :lol:

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:42 pm
by konsolen
i heard that nec is working on a firmware for a new drive that will burn dvd+rw with 8x and dvd-rw with 6x speed.
i think this new model is based on the 3500 hardware.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:57 pm
by Ian
According to my contact at NEC America, the 2.17 firmware should be available later this week. They'll have it on their website.

I was hoping that they'd at least release 2.18... but this is better than nothing.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:26 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:According to my contact at NEC America, the 2.17 firmware should be available later this week. They'll have it on their website.

I was hoping that they'd at least release 2.18... but this is better than nothing.


What about people with 2.06? Will they be releasing 2.07 or 2.08? :-?

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:48 pm
by RJW
konsolen wrote:i heard that nec is working on a firmware for a new drive that will burn dvd+rw with 8x and dvd-rw with 6x speed.
i think this new model is based on the 3500 hardware.


Well they just could claim 8x DVD+RW and 6x DVD-RW write speed and then later actually fix the real support when it comes to quality. I have seen that one befor.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:46 pm
by Ian
dolphinius_rex wrote:What about people with 2.06? Will they be releasing 2.07 or 2.08? :-?


That's just the OEM version of the 3500A, right? I'm sure they'll be out at the same time as well.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:10 am
by TCAS
Ian wrote:According to my contact at NEC America, the 2.17 firmware should be available later this week. They'll have it on their website.

I was hoping that they'd at least release 2.18... but this is better than nothing.


In another site some body has claimed that NEC in Europe has released F/W version 2.18 for the ND-3500AG drive today, I wonder if there is any truth to that?.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=113979

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:02 am
by Ian
Thanks TCAS! I'll have to point out to NEC America that they're lagging a little behind...

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:46 am
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:Thanks TCAS! I'll have to point out to NEC America that they're lagging a little behind...


While you're at it, please tell them to release the equivilant firmware for the NEC 3500AG... this one is only for the NEC 3500A #-o

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:25 am
by spryfly
dolphinius_rex wrote:
Ian wrote:Thanks TCAS! I'll have to point out to NEC America that they're lagging a little behind...


While you're at it, please tell them to release the equivilant firmware for the NEC 3500AG... this one is only for the NEC 3500A #-o


What's the difference between the A and the AG?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:27 am
by Ian
According to the readme, this one should be for the A and AG...???

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:25 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:According to the readme, this one should be for the A and AG...???


Hrm, I'll have to try it later, but I doubt that 2.06 will upgrade to 2.18 :-?

Where is the review for 3500A

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:01 pm
by c2k1
I agree with need a review for the Nec 3500A!
Also, Nec 3500 Vs 1653s.
Come on
=D>

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:23 pm
by Ian
1653S isn't out yet...

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:54 pm
by dolphinius_rex
The NEC 3500AG review is in the works... it's still a ways away yet, since I am quite anal about how I do my testing. It will be well worth the wait however :wink: