Has anyone heard about this from Liteon?

[ltb99]

My cousin just called me up today telling me that he had all of a sudden had some buffer under runs and slow speeds on his 3 month old Liteon burner. He called tech support and the guy asked if he was backing up commercial DVDs. My cousin said yes and the tech said that Liteon breaks down the drive little by little as commercial burning is done. Could this be true or is it something that is said to keep people from burning copy written DVDs?

ltb99

[steve2713]

complete and utter crap. The drive isn't going to even know or care what is being burned.

[johns0]

Not true,the thing thats wrong is the drive probably went to pio mode and needs to be reset to udma,do a search on this and you will get a ton of guides on how to do this if you or your cousin hasnt done it before.

[snafu099]

BS

The drive is not doing anything more than if you were to play the video on pc if you are ripping it.

It may be different if making disc to disc copy of disc created in standalone with firmware hack/upgrade that disables MV rather than stripe it out.

Still I would not think it is true, good way to limit sales of drives if it became known.

[BobK]

Why not call them back and tell them you tried with a non-commercial DVD and had the same problem? See what they say then.

[ltb99]

My cousin took the drive back to Walmart and Walmart told him they have never heard of this and gave him a new drive.

[lordsmurf]

BS

[Soopafresh]

Creative answer, though. And for a newbie, quite plausible.