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Buying a new one from ebay isn't the same as getting a new one from an online store. Online stores probably have a larger turnaround and therefore will always have the latest versions/models of whatever LiteOn are offering. Someone selling one on ebay might have had it in stock for months / years. I can't help you with your Plextor crossflash, take a look at the MyCE forums for advice like that.

No idea. If you were to buy a new one from a store, I'd expect it to be the 'B' model. afaik, the iHAS624 was only ever released as a 'B' model - so go for that one!

Post the entire log next time please - notice the Log window scrolls up and down. It's probably waiting for you to push the drive tray back in.

You can't. Best you could do is build an image and queue it up to burn to all 3 drives - one after the other.

It might be too old for the RITEK-S04-66 MID/dye. Hopefully you'll have more luck with the Verbatim discs. If you can get the 2.4x versions (MKM-001-00) rather than the (MKM-003-00) then try to do so. If they don't work, you haven't really lost anything. Get yourself a new drive and use them with that.

Honest, it's nothing to do with ImgBurn. If VLC picks the wrong aspect ratio then that's its problem. ISO files aren't meant to be played. Mount the ISO in a virtual drive program and then play from the virtual drive. Don't play the raw VOB files, always load the VIDEO_TS.IFO if you can't load/pick the drive as a whole You should also look at playback with something like 'Media Player Classic - Home Cinema'. VLC isn't perfect.

This is an issue with your source files, burning them to disc (or bundling them up in an ISO) doesn't change them. Assuming both of those pictures are actual photos of your tv screen, it just looks like you need to switch it back to 4:3 mode. There's probably a button on the remote for that. At the moment it's looks like it's displaying in Widescreen format. To be honest, the whole thing looks weird. You've got a wide picture put into letterboxed 4:3, then displayed in Widescreen again. You'd obviously be better off missing out the 'letterboxed 4:3' stage. Double check the settings in your capture program / VIDEO_TS authoring program. btw, you're using an old version of ImgBurn, you should update.

ImgBurn just burns what you give it. It's down to you to provide a proper set of files - and some random M2TS files don't make up a proper set of (BD Video) files. Try loading them into something like MultiAVCHD or tsmuxer and have those apps output a proper BDMV folder - then burn that with ImgBurn in Build mode.

Not unless they send me a device to work with, no.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000 SP1 for Windows 7 has been out a while now, you should install it.

You can try all the options mentioned in that thread I linked you to. I'm just saying that rather than spending £10 - £15 on a cleaning disc that may or may not work, you're better off buying a new drive for £20 - £30 If you already had a cleaning disc, obviously it wouldn't be a problem.

Like it says, with a 'cleaning disc'. You can buy them in most electronics stores. Here in the UK they can cost 50% of a new drive, so I'd probably just go for a new drive instead.

http://www.firmwarehq.com/Lite-On/SHM-165P6S/files.html Ideas on other things to try can be found here - http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

Cool, glad it's sorted. Just check it without forcing buffered reads (i.e. disable the setting I mentioned earlier again).

Update the firmware on your drive. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Pioneer/DVR-212/files.html Some other options (including the above) are mentioned here... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

What network controllers are on those machines? If Realtek (probably the most common), have you been to the Realtek website and downloaded the most recent driver for them? ImgBurn is only using standard Windows APIs for the reading the file and it reads in chunks of 64KB.

Try enabling the following... Tools -> Settings -> I/O -> Page 1 -> File I/O -> 'Reading - Always Use Buffered I/O'

As you can see in the screenshot, it supports the MKM-001-00 dye at 2.4x. So yes, it supports the 2.4x speed Verbatim discs. The 8x Verbatim discs use the MKM-003-00 dye/MID, so they are NOT supported.

Please re-read post # 7. Your drive just flat out doesn't have support for the discs you're trying to use. So you either buy discs it does support or you buy a new drive.

I have no control over this stuff. As I mentioned in another of your threads, it's not my component that handles the Explorer type stuff - and afaik, it's using SHDoDragDrop Windows API for the drag + drop stuff. I have no idea why it wouldn't be adding all of the selected items into the Drag object.

The initial folder is only applied when the program starts. After that the program will try to restore whichever folder you had the selected the last time you closed the window down. Sometimes that doesn't work though (for various reasons) and you may well end up back at the Desktop. The next version already has a little tweak in place that might make it better for you.

I believe that could happen if the application loses focus for some reason and then gets it back again - thus causing the 'OnActivate' event to fire. There's code in that 'OnActivate' event that would cause the DLE to lose focus. What you have to ask yourself though is WHY the app is losing focus in the first place? Have you got anything running in the background that could be causing it? In theory, unless it's directly related to your drag+drop / key pressing stuff, if you just left the DLE window open and focused for a while, eventually it would lose focus. It might be worth testing that out.

Why are you burning just the IFO?! DVD Flick should output an entire VIDEO_TS folder containing IFO/VOB/BUP files. You should be burning the whole thing. There are several DVD Video guides in the Guides forum, go take a look.

It's all in here - http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

That's the problem here. Is that a brand new disc? If not, try another one - actually you should try another one (or two) regardless. See if any of them say 'Yes' in that field. If they don't, it would appear your drive doesn't support that dye/mid. Have a read - http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000