In Reply to: getting started posted by Joe Murphy Jr on August 19, 2005 at 14:52:53:
> That said, make sure you have the latest firmware (currently PlexTools v2.24) from Plextor for your writer.Plextools is a utility for Plextor drives, it is not the firmeware. The current version of PlexTools is 2.24b, get the latest firmware from here.
Make sure you get the right drive model number, burning with the wrong flash is disaterous.> I suggest using DVD+R discs and burning them as DVD-ROM discs (using the bit-setting/book-type feature of the +R format) for the best compatibility.
I'm not sure all Plextor drives support bitsetting. Plextor has said in the past it won't support bitsetting 'cause it violates the DVD+R standard, though they later had firmware upgrades that did support the feature on some drives. I'm just not sure which, or if all of them do.
> Go to afterdawn.com and look for the links to DVDDecrypter and DVDShrink
Afterdawn.com is very good, but www.doom9.net is sort of the official website of DVD "Archiving" :) The forums there have pretty much any bit of information you'd need to know.
As for DVD media, Tayio Yuden is very good, and I'm not sure who makes Verbatim media (probably not Verbatim) but Ritek is considered the "Mitsui Gold" of DVD media.
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