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Posted by Rod Speed on 04/27/06 22:39
SalesMart.com.au <sales@___Email_Address_on_Web_site> wrote
> Axel VK <axl@pigpond.com> wrote
>> Groucho <nowhere@home.invalid> wrote
>>> Axel VK <axl@pigpond.com> wrote
>>>> Groucho <nowhere@home.invalid> wrote
>>>>> By who's criteria ? Yours? The 109 was fine but the 110 was crap,
>>>>> with well documented unresolved problems as far as burning a lot
>>>>> of 16x media at 16x. The 111 is too new and firmware still immature.
>>>> Hmm. I've got a 110 and have not had any problems whatsoever.
>>> Then you've merely been fortunate not to encounter media it
>>> dislikes or winds the rated speed back on is all.
>> I never burn any faster than 4X anyway so there may be issues that
>> I'm not aware of.
> I always set the burns to the max. Saves 10 minutes in burn times:)
> My older computer never reached 16X speed swhere my new computer
> has no troubles. Some older computers will never get to 16X burning
> speeds for an internal DVD burner.
> The Pioneer DVR-110 and 16X speed media.
> There are 32 brands of DVD-R 16X speed media and 30 brands of DVD+R
> 16X speed media. Only about 5 burn at 16X at 16X on the 110 drives.
> The new Pioneer DVR-111D/111/A11XL drives had the same problems
> on release where only a handful of brand names would burn at 16X.
> The older Pioneer DVR-109's burn most brands of 16X at 16X.
> Bare in mind
Is that the same thing as dirty thoughts ? |-)
> that DVD 8X speed media is getting fazed out for only 16X speed media.
> Pioneer released a new firmware update for the 111's in firmware 1.19
> This new firmware burns 17 brands of 16X at 16X. The other 12 brands
> burn at 12X, 8X or if its not even in the firmware then it drops back to
> 4X.
> I stopped selling the Pioneers around mid January as every update that
> was suppose to fix these burning speeds up never came out for the 110
> drives. So I had to test many brands of other burners before I was
> happy enough to sell them. There was a period of over a month where
> I did not sell any DVD burners at all as I was in my testing faze.
> I'm happy enough to sell the 111's now though.
> Pity Pioneer Australia are only selling the 111D and the A11XL drives.
> I wish they would only bring in the 111 drives.
> The Pioneer DVR-111D - can't write to DVD-RAM media.
> The Pioneer DVR-111 - can write to DVD-RAM media.
> The Pioneer DVR-A11XL - can write to DVD-RAM media.
> I wish Pioneer would increase their CDR burning
> speed to 48X like what many other brands have done.
> If I was buying right now I'd get the Sony DW-G120A drives.
Why those in preference to the LG drives you previously sold ?
> In fact a bought in a couple extra of these for my computer recently.
> Overall more happy with the latest Sony drives.
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