Unofficial Firmware 1.18 for Pioneer 107 Released


The official Pioneer 1.18 firmware for the DVR-107D DVD writer has, of course, been patched to supply additional features the RPC1 forum notes. Expect a Mac version - hopefully - shortly.

Earlier versions of the MacHacked version work fine (version 1.13, for instance). If you can't wait to install 1.18, there's a way to do it on a Mac via VPC and USB 2.0. See xlr8yourmac's database for details.

As previously, 1.18 (unofficial) lets you write to media beyond its prescribed speed (for example, burning 4x media at 8x), dezones the DVD writer (region-free) and boosts the DVD rip speed to 12x instead of 2x.

Note that this update shouldn't be used on the 107XL (the slightly later model Pioneer released which was quieter). There's a separate release for that. Check your model code on your burner first.

The official Pioneer 1.18 release now supports reading burned dual-layer (DL) media. So does the unofficial one.

As ever, IGM takes no responsibility for you flashing your firmware. Use at your own risk. Our lawyer says we have to say that. If we had a lawyer.

Analysis: I updated my 107D using Panther, a FireWire Pioneer drive connected via CardBus (it's a Lombard) and the unofficial 1.13 firmware. Worked like a charm.

There was a rumor Pioneer might update firmware in the future to allow DL recording, but that's up in smoke now the A08 has been announced. They're not going to want to lose sales now, are they?