High-Speed Burning Could Harm Pioneer Combo Drives

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High-Speed Burning Could Harm Pioneer Combo Drives

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 18, 2002 @05:18AM 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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Error by jamespharaoh · 2002-09-18 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny

/dev/hdc on fire
Burning Could Harm Pioneer Combo Drives by N3WBI3 · 2002-09-18 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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Warp 10 by kmahan · 2002-09-18 05:24 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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MPAA's New Weapon by boa13 · 2002-09-18 05:24 · 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!
problematic? by Lxy · 2002-09-18 05:24 · 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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Ouch by stinkydog · 2002-09-18 05:45 · 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

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Uh oh . . . by div_2n · 2002-09-18 05:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Talk about extreme Digital Rights Management . . .
It "implodes"? How so? by gosand · 2002-09-18 06:05 · 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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SuperDrive does DVD? by Erich · 2002-09-18 06:42 · 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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Implode? by guttentag · 2002-09-18 07:00 · 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.