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While surfing cdfreaks website I found the mention to the new firmware for the 110/A10.

cdFreaks mention can be found here.

So far the firmware is only avaliable at the japonese site but I'm pretty sure it will be released in Europe and America pretty soon.

Here's the link for the firmware.

I took the changelog from cdFreacks site. Hope I don't get into trubble for this...

Changelog:

1.39 Support New 8x DVD-R Media
( 8x writing:KINGDISC, INFOMEDIA, POSTECH, RITEK, MUST, INTERAXIA, UMEDISC, VANGUARD, TCL, MEGANMEDIA, GIGASTRAGE, INFOSOURCE, INFOSMART, DST )
Support New 16x DVD-R Media
( 12x writing:FUJIFILM, BEALL, LEADDATA, OPTDISC, MBI, AMC, PRODISC, INTERAXIA, GIGASTRAGE, MJC, FTI, PRINCO, KINGDISC, RITEK, CMC, DAXON )
Support New 4x DVD-R DL Media
( 4x writing:CMC )
Support New 6x DVD-RW Media
( 6x writing:TDK )
Support New 8x +R Media
( 8x writing:PHILIPS, INFODISC, UMEDISC, WEALTH FAIR, MAM-E, INTERAXIA, AMC )
Support New 16x +R Media
( 12x writing:MUST TECH, OPTDISC, DAXON, LEADDATA, LGE, GIGASTRAGE, FTI, RITEK )
( 8x writing:E-TOP )
Support New 8x +R DL Media
( 8x writing:Verbatim )
Support New 8x +RW Media
( 8x writing:Verbatim )
( 6x writing:SONY )
DVD-R/+R Writability has improved.
DVD-R/+R DL Writability has improved.
DVD-RW/+RW Writability has improved
DVD-RAM Writability has improved.
DVD-RAM Readability has improved.
¥Problems which unable to set up some of the CD-Extra media are solved.
¥Format error problem on +RW media combined with specific applications under the conditions Matsushita DVD-RAM driver installed in Windows ME or Windows 2000 are solved.

Nice to finally see support for Verbatim 8x DVD+RDL and 8x DVD+RW!

I may have to finally concede that it's become an 8x DVD+RDL capable writer (the results of 8x recording on 2.4x DVD+RDL were crap on many drives, but ok on others).

I also notice that Pioneer has continued their long obsession with giving 12x writing support to 16x media from second tier manufacturers

Yes, its about time they supported Verbatim's 8x DVD+RW media. Now lets hope they didn't screw up the MID like a number of other companies have.

Here's the full list of firmware updates:

DVR-110 - http://wwwbsc.pioneer.co.jp/product-e/i ... W139EU.EXE

DVR-110D - http://wwwbsc.pioneer.co.jp/product-e/i ... W139EU.EXE

DVR-A10XL - http://wwwbsc.pioneer.co.jp/product-e/i ... W139EU.EXE

The list of supported media has also been updated:

http://wwwbsc.pioneer.co.jp/product-e/i ... 03r_e.html

I've had my 110 for a few months now (maybe 3/4) and it works pretty good. Even bether then my A06.
I've been reading all the pros and all the negative stuuf on the drive and it really doesn't happen to me. Once thing I cannot speak of because I haven't tried yet. 16xMedia. It's still too expensive here, so I'm stuck to 8x media. Also, after too much money spended on media I just decided to buy good media and save some money.
I really like this one...

I dunno why the change log says it can now write to Daxon media at 12x. With the 1.37 firmware (maybe earlier?) you could write to their +R and -R at 16x.

Ian, in the main page it states that the firmware is v1.37 when it's 1.39.
Someone could fixe this

Yeah, I suppose we could.

Or maybe you shouldn't. You could always find how really reads the information and the ones that are really updated on this matter..

Just drifting anyway... Must be my work.. It's saying to me that it's time to go and have a drink...

Took awhile for me to find the real A10 version!