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F9 now available! Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – September 21, 2021

F9 now available! Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – September 21, 2021

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UPDATED September 22, 2021: Added more titles to the Coming Soon section. Hi everyone, Today is the 3rd Tuesday of September 2021. This week, we got the latest Fast and Furious movie, F9: The Fast Saga on DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K UHD. We also got 2 more movies on DVD. This Friday, we will also be getting Cruella on DVD and Blu-Ray. Also, since October is coming in a week and a few days, we are starting to see the…

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Redbox Kiosks
Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – September 14, 2021

Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – September 14, 2021

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UPDATED September 17, 2021: Added On The Rocks and Small Engine Repair to the Coming Soon list. UPDATED September 15, 2021: Added Old to the Coming Soon list. Hi everyone, Today is the 2nd Tuesday of September 2021. This week, we got 5 movies on DVD and 1 on Blu-Ray. This Friday, we will also be getting Black Widow on DVD and Blu-Ray. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Catch the Bullet Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the…

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Pioneer DVR-XD09 4
Updating the Pioneer DVR-XD09 Firmware

Updating the Pioneer DVR-XD09 Firmware

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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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Samsung SE-506AB 3
The Samsung SE-506 and the Pioneer DVR-XD09 also supports scanning discs

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

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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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Samsung SE-506AB 1
The Samsung SE-506 External Blu-Ray Writer

The Samsung SE-506 External Blu-Ray Writer

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

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

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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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Pioneer DVR-XD09 1
The Pioneer DVR-XD09 External DVD Writer

The Pioneer DVR-XD09 External DVD Writer

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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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LiteOn DS-8A5S SmartErase
The LiteOn DS-8A5S supports SmartErase!

The LiteOn DS-8A5S supports SmartErase!

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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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LG GP96 5
The LiteOn DS-8A5S and LG GP96YB70 supports scanning discs

The LiteOn DS-8A5S and LG GP96YB70 supports scanning discs

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Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show 2 scans from the previous post where I burned a PlexDisc DVD+R in the LiteOn DU-8A5LH. These scans are from the LiteOn DS-8A5S and from the newer LG GP96YB70. While the LiteOn doesn’t come as a surprise, the LG does, since most of their drives do not support performing quality scans. As an expansion of the previous post, here are the quality scans: LiteOn DS-8A5S LG GP96YB70 We already saw that this disc was a…

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Redbox at Walgreens at Keystone Heights, FL
Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – August 31, 2021

Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – August 31, 2021

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Hi everyone, Today is the last Tuesday of August 2021. This week, we got 3 movies on DVD and 2 on Blu-Ray. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD 12 Mighty Orphans In The Heights Spirit Untamed Blu-Ray In The Heights Spirit Untamed Movies that may no longer be reserved NOTE: Some of these titles may still be able to be reserved via the app and the website DVD Alone We Fight Dog Days Elves Hacksaw Ridge In Harm’s Way…

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