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  1. I see the 3550 is crossflashable to a 4551! Anyone tried this?

     

     

    That raises an ethical question and about crapped up all the hard work Liggy has done in support of nec drives. It took a week or so to sort out the flashers and remove that issue and get the firmware links

    back up. Nec has liscensing obligations that were jepordized with this issue and cdfreaks was put in a

    shakey legal position. With all due respect Cdfreaks and Nec have come out smelling like roses and the crossflashers like S***. The prime reason for the flash was to use the better(?) write strategies of the

    NEC 4551, now that NEC has made the code universally compatible accross the family line, that's a moot issue.

  2. your 4550 may be an adequate scanner, crosscheck the best burned disks you can when the benq arrives, and vary the scan speed of the

    nec to find it's fastest but most accurate scan speed.

    My nec 3550 correlates rather closely with my benq 1620 and friday

    my new benq 1650 arrives for more crosschecking.

  3. meritline has gone down the tubes! They take the order all the way thru and then call and email to sock you with high shipping!

     

    get the benq 1650 from newegg

  4. according to Dee,

     

    The very nice people at NEC have at last made the strategies compatible from the ND-3520 - ND-4551. Only the memory offsets in the firmware differ. This meant i could create 6 firmwares for these drives in one day. Usually this task would take weeks.

     

    evidently the 4551 will be the new base firmware

  5. "Chewey, on Capote ... you mean the special protection it gets transferred even to your backed-up dvd?"

     

    just empty title cells?

    dead giveaway, that and SONY!

    but we don't discuss this kind of stuff here

  6. At the 12x point, the BenQ (when scanning) picks up some huge PIE value - not really sure why.

    For that reason, I've also done a scan with a LiteOn.

     

    there's been some interesting discussion of relinking points and that phenomena over at cdfreaks

  7. meritline(usa)

    crossflash?

    BenQ DW1650 16X DVD 186-196-001 1 36.99 Color = Black

    Burner (OEM), 8X Dual

    Layer DVD ReWriter, with

    Free XXXX DVD Burning

    Software, Black/Cool Grey

    Bezel

    Subtotal 36.99

    Tax 0.00

    Total 36.99

  8. for testing later, one guy over at cdfreaks has put away an extra scanner(the one he first tested with) to make sure he's consistent.

    Now that's dedication.

  9. Yeah, it looks like it might be an LG-based drive. The emergency eject hole is to the right.

     

    is to the left, exactly in the middle or slightly to the right?

     

    Because I would guess that the 640b is a LG drive based on HP's naming scheme and the firmware version (E152).

     

    damn confusing, they used a liteon too

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