You remember our posts about the HP DVD100i, the drive that could write DVD+RW, but would be upgradable to also support DVD+R ? Well, thats what the marketing departement of HP tried to sell the consumer, but it seems they made a little 'mistake'.
Hewlett Packard told the consumers they would need to do a firmware update and the drive would support the DVD+R format, the Register is pretty clear about this:
Well, you can't. Hardware changes are required, and anything you heard to the contrary was, er, wrong. One of the places you might have heard it was in the press releases section of the DVD+RW Alliance web site, where on May 17th last year it was claimed that "the addition of write-once (DVD+R) capabilities to rewritable DVD+RW products slated to be introduced this summer [i.e., last summer]" was achievable. |
The release does not specify how this capability was to be achieved, but over at HP, home of the DVD100i, it says:
"Question: Is DVD+R media compatible with the HP DVD100i for recording purposes?
"Answer: No, HP has released the HP DVD100i with write-support for DVD+RW media only. Write-support for DVD+R media is neither planned nor technically feasible for the HP DVD100i model."
Well we can only give you one advice, wait with buying a DVD writer and buy a next generation drive, or wait until at least a couple decent, known CD-RW drive manufacturers release a DVD writer.
Read more about this on the RegisterUS here.
Source: Theregus.com
