Pioneer A06 and 106

by **homerw500** on Mon Jul 28, 2003 5:28 pm

do you get the same firm ware and tec surpport on the 106 as the A06 or is it like the sony's you only get surpport on the retail ones

thanks

Pioneer A06 and 106

by **Ian** on Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:30 pm

It's like with any OEM drive. The tech support and warranty isn't guaranteed by the manufacturer. In most cases you're going to have to go through the retailer that sold it to you.

by **Noua** on Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:16 pm

Actually if you buy the drive in Europe it doesn't work like Ian said. You actually have the 2 years warranty and all the suport (firmwares). The real difference from the retail version is software and some hardware that the package doesn't bring (like media,...)

This is what happened when I bought my Plextor CD-Rw. I bought the OEM version that came with a box labeled Plextor drive, the manual instructions, a cd with Plextools, the emergency ejec tool, the audio cable and the IDE cable. So it came with all the things I really needed.
But for what I know this only happenes in Europe.. In US (and probably in other countries outside Europe) it works like Ian said.

Hope this info has been useful. Godd Luck!

by **Raz0rX** on Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:42 pm

If you are in Canada (I also assume for the whole N.American), you can call up Pioneer for tech support even with your OEM Pioneer burner (for example, the DVR-106D). You can also deal RMA with them directly. On Pioneer's web site, they provide firmware support as well for the OEM Pioneer burner (for example, DVR-106D).

by **Noua** on Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:35 am

Does anyone knows what are the speed limits in this drive when it comes to video extraction?

by **Raz0rX** on Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:46 pm

What kind of video extration, VCDs or DVD videos?

by **Ian** on Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:55 pm

If I remember right, DVD (dual and single layer) are limited to only 2x.

No idea about VCD.

by **Telstar** on Tue Jul 29, 2003 3:33 pm

Noua wrote:Does anyone knows what are the speed limits in this drive when it comes to video extraction?

If you scroll down to the middle of the following linked page, you'll find all the max read speed of this model. I'd assume that DVD-Video is included in the category of DVD-ROM:

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Article ... r&Series=0

by **Ian** on Tue Jul 29, 2003 3:55 pm

Ah yeah, 4x for Video CD. That's probably playback though. Not rip speed.

by **Noua** on Wed Jul 30, 2003 5:13 am

I was curious about DVD rip speed... Of course it's like the A05 and many others... Limitted to 2x.

Hope someone can overcome this... :wink:

eh eh eh...

by **F1Pilot** on Sun Aug 10, 2003 5:14 pm

The A05/105 can be uncapped to rip at 12x.

by **Noua** on Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:10 pm

I know that, what i meant was that i hope that someone can do the same... for the A06

:D:D:D... That would be something...

Pioneer A06 and 106

Pioneer A06 and 106

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