Hi everyone, I'd like to pick up a DVD burner that supports bitsetting/booktyping (DL+R to DVD-ROM) from the usual places (Newegg or zipzoom) After some research, I found that LG, Lite-on, Ricoh, Benq, Nu, Nec are the brands to look at. However, I found posts by some users complaining that some models of these brands do not in fact support bitsetting, or the tool is locked from factory. I guess for many of us bitsetting is a determinant factor when buying a DVD drive. If you own one of these units and you're sure that it supports bitsetting, please post the brand and model. Million thanx!
Most drives auto booktype DL+R media. But the ones I know that can out of the box or either via modified firmware are NEC/Optiarc 72XX series, Samsung 203b and later 2XX series, Pioneer 112/215 and 116/216 series and most all Lite-Ons...there are too many models to research in the Lite-On camp. If you are taking those manufactures from Imgburn/DVD Decrypters booktype settings the BenQ's and old reliable NEC's are not longer being made. Ricoh and Nu are obscure drives that you are likely not to find anywhere if they are still being manufactured.
I thought so and think the Sammy's do to, but I've got all modified firmware so I can't confirm it right now.
My old Sony DRU-710A and Lite-On SHW-160P6S auto booktype to DVD-ROM whenever I burned with DVD+R and DVD+R DL.
NEC ND-3540/50 series do out of the box. Most modern ones will but only if you have command line access to the burning application parameters can you guarantee it if the pretty gui burning app doesn't have a "-f" option to write the specified (dvd-rom) string to the media identifier on the disk... Once you can control the raw disk info sent to the burner then whether something is supported by whatever firmware becomes unimportant.... Some older burners aren't capable of writing to the media descriptor area, so those will be a fail anyway... but I haven't seen one that will not from the modern drives.. Fact.. the only drive I have that is incapable of bitsetting (regardless of firmware) is an antique philips +r only thing.... but of course you windows people wouldn't know how the innards work.
