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  1. Member
    Join Date: Jan 2007
    Location: United States
    Good day all....newbie to this forum....

    thanks for all the input and advice of the members here....read up on the LiteOn recorders for the past week or so, then purchased a Gateway AR-230 off of eBay for $24 plus shipping and managed to upgrade with hacked firmware to "turn it into" a LiteOn LVW-5001 (but with errors)...

    The firmware upgrade changed my DDW-451S to a DDW-411S and the unit would no longer read discs...I went through some struggles but managed to remove the drive and reflash it to a LDW-451S and it worked....after I reversed the polarity of the driver drawer mechanism (it tried to open and close in reverse of what it should...)

    In the end, all is successful, and I have a region-free, macrovision-free recorder with the 3-hour record option...

    The entire post can be read here:
    http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=205995

    Thanks again for all your help.
    Pete
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    Join Date: Jun 2008
    Location: United States
    Another way wpuld be to flash the original Gateway AR-230 over to an older flash version with the Macrovision turn off in the hidden menu (2-9-6-0). v1139 firmware can be flashed back on the recorder even if a newer version is installed. My luck was that I kept the original firmware, since Gateway no longer has the older firmware versions on their site. Now if only I know where to post it on the Internet.
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