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Launceston, Tasmania
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May 2002
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Gawler, SA
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August 2003
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Re: Upgrade you SL dvd burner to DL dvd burner!!!
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Sun, 18 July 2004 03:55
 
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From what Ive read your better of flashing the Liteon/Sony drives to the Liteon firmwares. My 812S flashed to the DL 832S no problems although I see no point with DL media at the moment. DL @ $12 a disk compared to $2 for 2 SL disks which is the same capacity all up.
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Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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May 2002
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Re: Upgrade you SL dvd burner to DL dvd burner!!!
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Sun, 18 July 2004 12:49
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| Callifo wrote on Sun, 18 July 2004 13:55 |
From what Ive read your better of flashing the Liteon/Sony drives to the Liteon firmwares. My 812S flashed to the DL 832S no problems although I see no point with DL media at the moment. DL @ $12 a disk compared to $2 for 2 SL disks which is the same capacity all up.
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Try $1.40 for two discs. 
I bought a spindle of 50 for $35. And they're the inkjet printable ones too so they have that extra layer of thickness on top where it needs the protection.
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Location:
Gawler, SA
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August 2003
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Re: Upgrade you SL dvd burner to DL dvd burner!!!
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Sun, 18 July 2004 12:51
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I know there are cheapies but I wont touch them. Ritek or Taiyo yaden are about the only good quality ones around.
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Location:
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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May 2002
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Re: Upgrade you SL dvd burner to DL dvd burner!!!
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Sun, 18 July 2004 13:02
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| Callifo wrote on Sun, 18 July 2004 22:51 |
I know there are cheapies but I wont touch them. Ritek or Taiyo yaden are about the only good quality ones around.
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The ones I bought are Princo 4x-r. They are very good too. I have no problems with them so far. I even mucked around last night (I havn't had the burner for long), and made a copy of my original mad max dvd with dvdxcopy just to see how it works. Well, last night/this morning I was watching it just fine on my lounge room dvd player.  Which is just saying it had no issues with the dvd media. And as I mentioned the inkjet printable, I just love the extra "security" from having that extra bit of thickness on top of the disc.
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Carlingford, Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Upgrade you SL dvd burner to DL dvd burner!!!
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Sun, 18 July 2004 13:51
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the princo stuff works well
just watch out cause its not 4.7gb
4.3gb is all you will fit on...
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
Sydney
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December 2002
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Re: Upgrade you SL dvd burner to DL dvd burner!!!
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Sun, 18 July 2004 21:27
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Princo... Yuk!
Those Princo discs are really $hit quality and for all those who wonder how come they are so cheap... well they don't have a philips license and that saves them $0.10US per disc
check http://licensing.philips.com/ for info on who is and is not a licensed manufacturer
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
melbourne.vic.au
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Upgrade you SL dvd burner to DL dvd burner!!!
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Mon, 19 July 2004 06:39
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Great post! I have to flash my DVD-+RW and make it region free  Just have to figure out what Lite-on DVD burner I have now 
Cheers.
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Location:
Launceston, Tasmania
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May 2002
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Re: Upgrade you SL dvd burner to DL dvd burner!!!
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Mon, 19 July 2004 07:33
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There are 2 main liteon burners, one is 8x for +r media and 4x for -r media, this one won't work with the firmware upgrade thing. If you have the newer one that is 8x for both +r and -r media then you are set I think there is also a 12x burner but i don't know if this one can be used for the DL upgrade.
In regards to media, i have princos and havn't had a problem. The guys over at austech.info seem to have taken sides with either ritek or princo and their are arguements both ways on which media is shit.
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Location:
Gawler, SA
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August 2003
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