Double Layer DVD

[Brian]

Just got hold of my first DVD burner. Look sweet... Philips DVD+RW824 (despite the name it take all formats except DVD-RAM :-D, ow and no double layers :-().

Anyway... bought myself a 25pack of lowquality PCLine DVD+R's and hope it'll take me across the first hurles of dud burns etc.

Only thing so far to complain about is that the philips homepage is crapp and I simply can't find my product there, let alone any help about it or possible updated firmware etc. :pissed:

[Brian]

@Etho

Thanx for the link... couldn't get into the site due to IE complaining about damaged scripts. Anyway... found the drive and the flash tool to use though it say I need to note down from the list of drives what flash file from the archive that my drive need and of cause my drive is not on the list... thanx a bunch crappo Philips. :pissed:

[Brian]

Hmm... the drive came as ready for +&- formats (had an extra sticker on the box so guess it has already been flashed). So the new flash that cost 7.5€ will give me what exactly? Nothing as far as I can see so I'll wait 'till a new flash say it'll make the drive burn dual layer or something other fancey. ;-)

[Brian]

Seem I have the Philips DVDRW824K/40 with Firmware 3.3 which is the latest so I'm fine for now... sadly read that the drive CAN'T be flashed into taking duallayer DVD's... :bigcry:
(:idea: Still hoping that's a marketing scam and when the upcomming DVDRW885 firmware comes it'll will work on my drive aswell and activate it's hidden duallayer capabilities.)