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High-Speed Burning Could Harm Pioneer Combo Drives

Posted by timothy on from the but-isn't-that-the-point-of-high-speed dept.

daffydory writes "Both New Scientist and The Register have articles about the Pioneer DVD writers (SuperDrives to us Apple users)." According to these articles, the drives "will bascially implode themselves with the new highspeed media that's coming out. Lovely. There's supposed to be a firmware patch to fix it, but it may be 'problematic' for users to install."

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  1. Error by jamespharaoh · · Score: 5, Funny

    /dev/hdc on fire

  2. Burning Could Harm Pioneer Combo Drives by N3WBI3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried burning my drive really slow and it still damaged it..

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  3. Warp 10 by kmahan · · Score: 5, Funny

    She kinna take it anymore, captain! She's gonna blow!

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  4. MPAA's New Weapon by boa13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup, now pirates will die a seething death as they burn music on their computers. Sucked into your own burner by an imploding disc... what a pyrotechnic ending!

    1. Re:MPAA's New Weapon by unicron · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't think I'd be able to keep a straight face if I was a cop and had to respond to a call where some warez kiddie was found decapitated with a non-legit copy of Photoshop stuck in the wall behind his corpse.

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  5. problematic? by Lxy · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's supposed to be a firmware patch to fix it, but it may be 'problematic' for users to install.

    Does problematic mean "I can't get to the machine to upgrade because there's shards of disc flying at me when I go near it!"?

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  6. Sweet... by quakeroatz · · Score: 2, Funny

    This gives a new meaning to the term:

    "Burning a disc"

    Honey, don't you smell something....

  7. Now there's a good reason to "switch" by Jack+Wagner · · Score: 2, Funny
    So I guess they "just work" right up until they "just friggin blow up"? Eh?

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  8. Hmmm... by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if I have one of these in an Apple Laptop, do I get an explosive fireball?

    Cooooooool... now that would make me spring for some Apple hardware! [as long as it was under warranty]

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  9. Ouch by stinkydog · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to Webster (Mostly)
    Main Entry: problematic
    Pronunciation: "prä-bl&-'ma-tik
    Variant(s): or problematical /-ti-k&l/
    Function: adjective
    Date: 1609
    1 a : posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide b : not definite or settled : UNCERTAIN c : open to question or debate : QUESTIONABLE
    2 : expressing or supporting a possibility
    synonym see DOUBTFUL
    3 : launching shards of flaming polycarbonate embeded into the area around the head and neck
    - problematically /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb

    SD

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  10. Uh oh . . . by div_2n · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about extreme Digital Rights Management . . .

  11. It "implodes"? How so? by gosand · · Score: 3, Funny
    So how exactly does a spinning drive implode? No wonder these drives suck, they violate the laws of physics.

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  12. SuperDrive does DVD? by Erich · · Score: 4, Funny
    I thought the SuperDrive was the drive that could read and write 1.4M floppy disks.

    I was really glad that it could... finally I could read and write DOS 1.4M floppy disks, Mac 1.4M floppy disks, 800K Mac floppies, and 720K Dos Floppies.

    I can't wait to pull out my old 512Ke with the external SuperDrive and start burning DVDs!

    Oh, you mean this is just another example of Marketing BuzzWord TermReuse? Crap.

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  13. Implode? by guttentag · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...the drives "will bascially implode themselves
    CD/DVD drives are essentially centrifuges. As such, they are given to exploding at high speeds.

    If you have a centrifuge that's imploding at high speeds, there's nothing wrong with the device -- there's something amiss with physics in your point in space. Get out of house and contact your nearest physicist right away.

  14. Re:And here's Pioneer's fix by jmanning2k · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great. Their "Macintosh Updater" link on that page links to one of those stupid "Under Construction" images.
    Those should be banned. If it's not up there yet, don't link to it.
    So, download the .exe updater and try to figure out how to boot it on an iMac. Put it in the floppy drive? Uh, no floppy. Run an .exe? Wrong arch.
    Doesn't really matter. I can't afford the standard DVD media, nevermind the 2x and 4x versions.

  15. Re:Bigger heatsink by daffydory · · Score: 2, Funny

    um, somehow I see an nitroglycerine cooling system being A Bad Thing... Could just be me.... Laser heats up, and BOOM, computer blows up. Guess that's what's called 'catastrophic failure' ;-) Dory

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