I bought a 4x dvd-rw Ritek to try out on my pioneer a06 drive. I've used ritek before in the past and have been pleased with them. I own a ritek dvd-rw 2x which I use all the time and it plays fine. When I ordered the 4x dvd-rw ritek I also got a 4x dvd+rw optodisc. The first time I burned to the optodisc it burned at 4x. Now if I try to burn at 4x again when burning a VIDEO_TS folder it only goes at 1x, if I make the dvd an iso it burns at 2.4x . Now when I insert the 4x dvd-rw ritek it doesn't even recognize it at all. I emailed the guy back and he said oh pioneer came out with some new firmware in november for your drive that supports 4x dvd-rw and 4x dvd+rw. I've looked and I couldn't find it but I've already got my drive flashed with rpc1 and 12x dvd rip speed firmware. If I use this new firmware I'll lose the region free and 12x dvd rip speeds, correct? Or has a firmware that's region free and has 12x dvd rip speed been released based on this version of the firmware? thanks


Edit : Turns out I do have the current firmware with the rpc1 and 12x and the dvd-rw still doesn't read in the drive, the salesman claims that it's my firmware and not the disc, I believe it's a faulty disc though.