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Updating the Pioneer DVR-XD09 Firmware

September 13, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show you how to update the Pioneer DVR-XD09 firmware. This is important as firmware updates should improve the drive operation, including better reading and burning stability. This Pioneer DVR-XD09 drive came with the 1.02 firmware. The latest firmware available for this drive is 1.05. To download and update it, we first need to go to Pioneer’s optical drive firmware update download page. We will scroll down until we see the firmware file for our DVR-X09 drive….

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The Samsung SE-506 and the Pioneer DVR-XD09 also supports scanning discs

September 12, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, After playing around with the Samsung SE-506 drive as well as the Pioneer DVR-XD09, they can both scan discs. The Samsung SE-506 being a Blu-Ray drive, can also scan those discs. This is great because it’s probably one of the very few slim drives that supports such feature. Unfortunately, the Pioneer DVR-XD09 cannot scan double layer DVDs. It simply stops scanning at the layer break and reports a massive spike of errors at that segment. However, it works…

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Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the HP version of the LG GT80N

September 11, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we’ll see how well the PlexDisc DVD+R discs burns in the HP version of the LG GT80N optical drive: We will be using ImgBurn to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and supports writing at 4x and 8x. We will be burning it at 8x: The drive burned the disc using a CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) strategy, starting at about 3.3x and gradually going up until reaching 8x: The disc…

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PlexDisc DVD+R in the LG GP96YB70 External Slim Optical Drive

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc in the LG GP96YB70 optical drive

September 10, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will be burning a PlexDisc DVD+R disc in the LG GP96YB70 external slim drive: This drive supports burning these discs at 4x and 8x. We will be burning it at 8x: This unit supports setting the DVD+R Book Type to DVD-ROM. This is useful as this can improve the disc compatibility with older drives: The drive was able to burn the disc successfully: And verified it correctly: The drive burns the disc in Constant Angular Velocity…

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Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LG BP60NB10 optical drive with the 1.02 firmware – Part 2

September 9, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will be attempting again to burn a PlexDisc DVD+R disc in the LG BP50NB40 crossflashed to the BP60NB10 firmware 1.02. This time, we will burn the disc at a speed of 2.4x, the slowest and only speed it allows us to use besides the 8x speed we used before: As we can see, the drive only supports either burning the disc at 2.4x or 8x. We will use the 2.4x: The burning process was successful, but…

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The Samsung SE-506 External Blu-Ray Writer

September 8, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see the Samsung SE-506 optical drive: This is an External Blu-Ray Writer that can burn CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray XL media. I could not find a data sheet with the supported write speeds. This drive is already discontinued. ImgBurn reports that the drive can read and burn all of the popular disc types: This drive is a standard slim tray-loading device: It uses a Micro USB connector: Here, we can see the optical mechanism:…

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Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – September 7, 2021

September 7, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

UPDATED 9/9/2021: Added Black Widow (2020) and Cruella to the Coming Soon list. UPDATED 9/8/2021: Updated the Coming Soon list. Hi everyone, Today is the first Tuesday of September 2021. This week, we got 3 movies on DVD. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Great White The Gateway The Girl Who Got Away Also, last Friday, we got Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman on DVD. Movies that may no longer be reserved NOTE: Some of these titles may still be…

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The Pioneer DVR-XD09 External DVD Writer

September 6, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will see the Pioneer DVR-XD09 optical drive: This is an External DVD Writer that can burn the following media: ImgBurn reports that the drive cannot read and burn DVD-RAM, but it also has an issue where it cannot retrieve the buffer size. It also states it does not support Layer Jump Recording which is used when burning double layer DVDs. The product overview page states it supports DVD-RAM, so maybe ImgBurn cannot retrieve this information properly….

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Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LG BP60NB10 optical drive with the 1.02 firmware

September 5, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, Today, we will be burning a PlexDisc DVD+R disc in the LG BP50NB40 crossflashed to the BP60NB10 firmware 1.02: We will be using ImgBurn to perform the burning and verification process. This drive reports to be able to burn these discs at 2.4x and 8x. We will be burning them at 8x: The burning process was successful, and it burnt in CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) mode starting at 3.3x and going all the way up to 8x: The…

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The LiteOn DS-8A5S supports SmartErase!

September 4, 2021 Moises Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone, I found out that the LiteOn DS-8A5S optical drive from the external Gear Head DVD Drive supports wiping CD-Rs and DVD+/-R (DL) discs with Lite-On’s SmartErase feature. SmartErase is a feature that some LiteOn drives have where it can destroy the data on CD-Rs and DVD+/-R (DL) discs to safely dispose of them. It works by overwriting the entire disc surface. I first came to use this feature on the Lite-On iHAP422 until I got the Lite-On iHAS524…

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