The info I am seeking may be too obscure but I'll give it a try anyway.
My Electrohome 8181A the great player of SVCD's and many disk types seems to be panning out to be a poor dvd-r player. I have had trouble with Mitsumi, Memorex, Maxell and will now be trying TDK/Ritek.
Has anyone had sucess with another media brand?
I opened the dvd player and looked at the dvd rom unit it uses. It looks identical to one you'd put in your PC. (Fuss Audio DVD Drive Model DV9929B). I tried a dvd-rom I had but the screen just came up white instead of the Electrohome startup screen.
Can anyone tell me the difference between this dvd drive and a PC one?

Another question was reguarding the unit's eprom. Has anyone tried to copy the eprom from the older Electrohome 8181 (in which the macrovision can be turned off) and put it in the 8181A ?