spotts and robbo used our news submit to tell us that Pioneer has released a new firmware for the DVR-108 series. The new firmware release brings the drive up to version 1.18 from the previous 1.14 firmware. The firmware has not been listed on all Pioneer regional sites yet but has been listed on their Japanese site. The updates for the 108 series can be found HERE (site is in English)
What's new in this version
1.18:
- Support 16x writing on New 16x DVD-R
Media
- 16x writing BeALL/CMC/Mitsubishi Chemical
Corporation(Verbatim)/Prodisc/TDK)
- 12x writing Fuji Film/Maxell/SONY/Taiyo-Yuden(That's) )
- Support 16x writing on New 16x +R Media
- 16x writing CMC/Prodisc/TDK)
- 12x writing Maxell/Mitsubishi Chemical
Corporation(Verbatim)/Philips/RITEK/SONY/Taiyo-Yuden(That's) )
- Support 8x writing on New 8x DVD-R Media
AMC/LEADDATA/LGE/NANYA/Optodisc/Prodisc)
- DVD-R/RW/+R/+RW Writability Improvement
- CD-R Writability Improvement
- DVD Playability Improvement
- CD Playability Improvement
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Maybe someone could post some media scans to show how much it improves DVD and CDR writing.
Source: Pioneer
