Pioneer DVR-106 book type

[ultimatebilly]

Hi all!
I found this:

Great drive for DVD-R but beware when you burn DVD+R, it writes them in a book type that has a poor compatibility with many DVD players, these discs won't play on most of the Panasonics except the newer players, they don't even play on the E30 and E50, I called Pioneer to see if the book type field (or mode) can be changed from DVD+R to DVD-ROM, (that is compatible with virtually all players), and they say they don't have a firmware for that and are not planing to release one (in other words, they don't care about +R/RW) if your planning to burn +R
or +RW get a burner based on Ricoh drives that let you change modes, or the HP 200i or 300i That writes on DVD=ROM Book type, and you can.t use Nero 5.5.15 and up and 6 even on the HP because it changes the mode fron DVD-ROM to DVD+R


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Comments posted by Enrique, October 17, 2003. Rated this writer 7 of 10.
here:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdwriters.php?DVDnameid=113&Search=Search&list=0#comments, as usual after :rolleyes: buying the drive...

Does anybody know if there is any truth in this?

Thanks,

ultimatebilly

[Gil T Pleasure]

Most newer DVD players should be able to play DVD+R just fine. Since DVD+R is new, older DVD players don't recognize the format and choke when playing it. So if you have an older DVD player, use DVD-R instead. This is probably why no dual format burner to date have the ability to change book type as you can always use DVD-R if your player can't play DVD+R. Of course if your DVD player can't play neither format, then you're F'ed. Guess it's time to get a new DVD player!

[ultimatebilly]

Fortunately, my DVD-Player has no problem at all :D
It's a Scott (the same as "Apex" in the US i think), and plays everything I throw at it.
I just wanted to ask because I never heard of such a thing as different book types for DVD+R...

Thank's for confirming this!

[alexnoe]

Actually, many dual format drives don't allow changing the book type.

[loki03]

i did change the book-type in record-now-max and the +r in my burner was then shown as dvd-rom by windows-explorer. so it might work with the 106.

[SomeJoe]

alexnoe is quite correct - changing the book type is easily done only for plus-only drives with Ricoh-based firmware. I haven't seen any utility that allows changing the +R book type for any dual-format drive.

It's very unfortunate, too, because changing the +R book type to DVD-ROM significantly increases +R compatibility with set-top players. Virtually all of the "unbiased" tests I've seen comparing -R and +R media ignore the book type issue and therefore unknowingly make a less-than-meaningful comparison.