I've got an A03 that i've had for a little over a year. Lately, it won't burn 2x on any DVD-R. I've tried two kinds of TDKs (some from a spindle that show up as TDK G02, and some from jewel cases that show up as maxells), and discs from a 15 pack of verbatims that i just bought. Wouldn't burn sony's or mitsuis at 2x either.

I think these are all pioneer-certified 2x discs (the TDKs and Verbatims DEFINITELY are), and i've been using pioneer original firmwares. was using 2.00, thought that was the problem, so i've tried 1.68, 1.80, and now 1.90. I even tried a couple of the 2x4all firmwares with no success.

I've tried cleaning the drive and quite a few pieces of software that have worked at 2x for the past year.

Anyone had a similar problem? Its just out of the 1 year warranty, so i'd probably be better off just buying one of those cendyne drives than getting this one repaired.

Thanks,

Dan