Upgrade Your DVD Writer to Double Layer -- Maybe

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Upgrade Your DVD Writer to Double Layer -- Maybe

Posted by timothy on Monday May 17, 2004 @07:10PM from the don't-blame-us-if-the-obvious-risks-strike dept.

Autoversicherung writes "Even if NEC tells you its impossible, German netzine Golem is reporting hackers have created an updated, unofficial version of the firmware providing DVD+DL (Double Layer) capabilities. Currently model 2100A and 2500A are patchable, more will hopefully follow soon. How cool, this enables me to skip an update cycle for burners!!" It's always fun to use the fish, and sometimes to void your warranty.

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This is your DRIVE on BAD Firmware by CygnusXII · 2004-05-17 19:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Just think about all, the extra drives sold, when all the Uber Mensch, fry thier drives, writing the firmware to crap.

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1. Re:This is your DRIVE on BAD Firmware by number · 2004-05-17 20:48 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I will, think about that, while, dividing my time, between, thinking about, the cost of, periodic DVD burner upgrades, and, excessive, use, of, commas, in, slashdot, posts.
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2. Re:This is your DRIVE on BAD Firmware by orangesquid · 2004-05-17 22:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's not a virus, it's a trojan horse.
  Maybe a nitpick, but the story goes, back in the day, there was this large horse which roamed freely around the city of Troy. It carried a .NFO which read, "Capable of turning your city into a full-fledged city-state!" Someone in Troy decided to open the horse, and sure enough, the entire town was reformatted.
  
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Re:Pre-babelfished by Snuggly_Soft · 2004-05-17 19:34 · Score: 5, Funny

"That, which it itches now in the fingers to try the DL firmware out it should realize itself the risks" Makes you think about a lot of things. I'll carry that one to my grave.
Re:This was on techbargains.com by ForestGrump · 2004-05-17 19:42 · Score: 3, Funny

damn 80 bucks...oh im tempted oh im tempted.

Dad! Can I borrow your credit card? The math teacher said I need a graphing calculator for statistics in the fall. =)

-Grump

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Soon... by Molina+the+Bofh · 2004-05-17 19:55 · Score: 5, Funny

In a store next to you, the new and amazing DVD Perforator.

This amazing new product allows you to punch a hole through the DVD, allowing you to use BOTH sides of the media. Use your Single-Side as Double-Side disks without paying extra.

Available in 5"1/4 and 3"1/2 versions.

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And the followup is... by iansmith · 2004-05-17 19:59 · Score: 5, Funny

A report that people who use hacks to upgrade their burners produce DVD's that don't last 100 years and are full of errors.

And people will be *suprised* to read this. Gasp, hacked dual layer DVD's don't last forever!

And Slashdot will report on this. Once a month. For a year.

This just sounds like trouble. :-)
1. Re:And the followup is... by Dever · 2004-05-17 20:39 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  using cdr/dvdr media for archives is trouble anyway, unless you use RW which has a different ink layer composition (metal-ly based if i remember).
  it's all been covered here before, recently, ad infinitum...
  basically, no difference...
  for true archiving, i just rig up a clockwork orange theater setup, knowing that i'll never be able to get whatever i subjected myself to out of my head...
  
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LAYER 2 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-17 20:00 · Score: 1, Funny

[This is layer 2]
Re:DVD-ROM by BarryNorton · 2004-05-17 20:04 · Score: 2, Funny

You have a cheap DVD-player with a tiny buffer apparently.
Whereas you clearly have a massive one... buffer, that is! (No, seriously, whip it out and let's see, you've really impressed me and, I'm sure, everyone else...)
Re:Translation for lazy people by hundalz · 2004-05-17 20:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Well, for those who don't understand English/American, here's the article in Ali G.
Re:Pre-babelfished by Smork · 2004-05-17 20:28 · Score: 1, Funny

Anyone have a version that wasn't proof-read and corrected by Yoda? ;-)
You have a PC? by blorg · 2004-05-17 21:17 · Score: 4, Funny

You're mad. I drew the line when they introduced DRM onto C64 cassette tapes. I'll stick with my trusty Texas Instruments pocket calculator, thank you very much.
Re:The great burner death of may 2004 by eclectro · 2004-05-17 21:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Right, it's one thing to lose that theatre-cam pirate copy, and quite another to lose all your important documents and back up data. Reminiscent of a bad eighties commercial;

This is your data;
10110010010101011110010010

This is your data on bad firmware;
1011.....01....11110000........01....

Get it????

Yeah, the elfen chic Liv is pretty hot. I hear she is married now though.

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Re:Translation for lazy people by ReVeR5408 · 2004-05-17 22:49 · Score: 1, Funny

Thnx for da linx; now i only read slashdot in Ali styles; dis much fitter
Booka!