Ahhhh, what a good reason to NOT buy their product, not that they  
care but it soothes an irritated soul on this end.  I try to stay  
away from third party products when at all possible for this very  
reason.

John R.


On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Lee Larson wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Carl Wimmer wrote:
>
>> My question is regarding firmware updates. There are no Mac  
>> updates on the Pioneer website for these models or any other  
>> running on OS X, but both have Windows firmware updates. What  
>> would the consequences of mounting the DVR-107D on an XP machine  
>> and updating the firmware be? The current 1.22 revision is  
>> supposed to deal with buffer over/underruns as well as allow the  
>> use of some newer DVD materials.
>
> Most of the time the firmware updates are platform agnostic inside  
> the drive, but they only have installers that run under Windows. I  
> have updated my Linux and Mac drives several times by plugging them  
> into Windows and running the installers. It's always worked, and  
> several times it cured annoying problems. I always write the  
> manufacturer complaining about the extra hoop they made me jump  
> through to fix problems with the product they sold me.
>



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