Decoding Pioneer's New Model Names

[Ian]

Pioneer Electronics announced their series of 20x DVD writers and once again, they had to go and rename all of the drives. Here's what we have so far:

DVR-X152 (DVR-115D?) - External USB 2.0 with 20x DVD±R

DVR-1910 (DVR-115D?) - 20x DVD±R

DVR-1910LS (????) - LightScribe with 20x DVD±R

DVR-2910 (DVR-215D?) - SATA with 20x DVD±R

DVR-213LS (DVR-213K?) - SATA and LightScribe with 20x DVD±R

Without a complete list of specs, I'm not really sure what they all are yet. The two with LightScribe are really throwing me. DVR-115C? DVR-215C? Thoughts?

[Dartman]

They had a 111c that had LS, be cool if you could hack it to do both LS and Label flash. Frys here had a bunch of the c models but I didn't need yet another 111 just to see if it could be done.

[Jim]

I remember reading that the "c" models, or lightscribe models, had additional hardware for that feature in the DVR-111 version. My next writer will be a SATA so I may try the new Pioneer with Lightscribe out. Hopefully MSCE is updated to add DVD+R SL bitsetting for it.

[zsl1010]

Pioneer Electronics announced their series of 20x DVD writers

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DVR-213LS (????) - SATA and LightScribe with 20x DVD±R
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Without a complete list of specs, I'm not really sure what they all are yet. The two with LightScribe are really throwing me. DVR-115C? DVR-215C? Thoughts?

Hi, this is my first post.

The DVR-213LS should be the DVR-213K available in China.
http://www.pioneer-dvd.com.cn/b_pro_spe ... o=DVR-213K
Some photos here:
http://article.pchome.net/content-535073.html

According to PCDVD taiwan, the DVR-213K is probably the ASUS 2014L1T
http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread.php?t=767181
Some photos here:
http://product.pcpop.com/000052959/Picture.html

Pls note all the above pages are in Chinese and I am not sure if they can be read properly.

[Ian]

Thanks zsl1010!

[Justin42]

If only the SATA Lightscribe drives could do DVD-RAM I'd buy them in a heartbeat... (I assume they can't, but would love to be proved wrong)

I swear, I love Pioneer drives, but they refuse to build me a drive that I am willing to buy at the time.

Hopefully some interesting cross-flashing stuff appears...

[Jamotech]

As on the Pioneer Australia website
http://www.pioneer.com.au/productdetail ... tions.html


DVR-213LS RRP: $69.00

Internal 20x SATA DVD/CD burner featuring LightScribe direct disc labeling


Installation
Mounting Orientation Horizontal or Vertical orientation
Data Buffer (size) 2MB
Dimensions (W x H x D) 148 x 42.3 x 172.4mm
SATA interface Serial ATA Revision 1.0A
Write Support
DVD DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM
CD CD-R, CD-RW
Read Support
DVD DVD-ROM, DVD-VIDEO, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM
CD CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-DA, Video CD, PhotoCD, CD Extra, CD-Text, CD-R, CD-RW
Write Speed
DVD-RW 6x max
CD-RW 32x max
CD-R 40x max
DVD+R 19.6x max
DVD+R DL 8x max
DVD-R 20x max
DVD-R DL 8x max
DVD+RW 8x max
DVD-RAM 12x max

[Ian]

I hate to bump this old topic, but I was looking through Pioneer's website and noticed that they had DVR-116D and DVR-216D firmwares listed under the DVR-1910 and DVR-2910. Does anyone know if Pioneer shipping these new models under the old drive names?

DVR-1910 - http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/ ... port?tab=B

DVR-2910 - http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/ ... port?tab=B