cannot burn at 16x on Pioneer DVR109

[K-Man]

Hi,

Not sure if I have the correct NG, I will try anyways..I have a Pioneer
DVR 109, working great, except when I wanted to try to burn a 16X DVD
(FUJI) It will only burn at 2X or 4X speeds, I use to buy and burn 8X
in past with no problems. Any idea whats going on? I have FW 1.5 (i
think) and on Pioneer website the FW supports 16X speeds. Any help
will be greatly appreciated.

TIA

 

[Jan Alter]

Not only should the FW be up to date but your software should be checked for
updates and you may get different results from different media.
Check Pioneer for what media they are recommending.

 

[~misfit~]

Hi,

Not sure if I have the correct NG, I will try anyways..I have a
Pioneer DVR 109, working great, except when I wanted to try to burn a
16X DVD (FUJI) It will only burn at 2X or 4X speeds, I use to buy and
burn 8X in past with no problems. Any idea whats going on? I have
FW 1.5 (i think) and on Pioneer website the FW supports 16X speeds.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

What Jan said. Also, to put it another way, some "16X" media isn't that
great. Your software and / or your drive will 'test' it on insertion and
decide what speed it can be relaibly written to. Also, as Jan said, always
have the latest Firware. I have a Pioneer DVR-110 and I've subscribed at a
Pioneer website and as soon as new firmware is released (out of beta) I get
an email with a link to it. Very handy. Also reading the release notes with
the firmware or on the site can tell you a lot about what media to use /
avoid.

 

[Argento]

What Jan said. Also, to put it another way, some "16X" media isn't that

great. Your software and / or your drive will 'test' it on insertion and
decide what speed it can be relaibly written to. Also, as Jan said, always
have the latest Firware. I have a Pioneer DVR-110 and I've subscribed at a
Pioneer website and as soon as new firmware is released (out of beta) I
get an email with a link to it. Very handy. Also reading the release notes
with the firmware or on the site can tell you a lot about what media to
use / avoid.

Oh, they have notification on firmware updates? That's informative, didn't
know about it earlier.
FYI, I have the same model of Pioneer and I once experience a minor problem.
I very bad quality CD that can be read well with Lite-On's CDRW fails to
read in this ROM.

 

[~misfit~]

Oh, they have notification on firmware updates? That's informative,
didn't know about it earlier.

Yeah, I'm impressed with that. I didn't bookmark the sign-up site however so
can't give you a URL. Ahh, I'm in New Zealand and I just looked at the email
I got on the 14th of this month telling me that firmware version 1.39 is now
available for DVR-110D and it comes from Australia, fwnotifications (at)
pioneeraus.com.au. Web site at http://www.pioneeraus.com.au/computer
although I don't see the page where I signed up now.

FYI, I have the same model of Pioneer and I once experience a minor
problem. I very bad quality CD that can be read well with Lite-On's
CDRW fails to read in this ROM.

Yeah, I hear ya. I'm really happy with my 110D but there are always going to
be drives that do one thing better than a drive that does all things. The
DVR-110 is primarilly a DVD drive (With CD read / write functionality). If
you have a dodgey CD it makes sense that a dedicated CD drive is going to be
better at reading it.