Just bought a new a pioneer 202 blu-ray burner from Broadfield for our Mac Pro 8 core along with Toast 9 to be able to burn a basic, non-menu HD DVD. They swore it would work, The unit instructions said it would work with mac and indeed it did when we followed directions and changed the power cable and plugged it in to a sata connection on the board. Well, it plays fine and records data without issue, but we couldn't burn an HD DVD that would play in our clients player. After many hours with Roxio and Pioneer we were told that it is a firmware issue and that we need to download new firmware. So here's the rub. There is no firmware link for a mac, we were then told we need to uninstall the drive, install it in a PC get the firmware and then reinstall it in the Mac. Got 4 Macs here and no PCs. So, my question is: Is there anyway that Boot Camp or one of those other PC for Mac programs you guys always talk about will allow firmware to come through the Mac? Thanks for any suggestions, in advance
Just bought a new a pioneer 202 blu-ray burner from Broadfield for our Mac Pro 8 core along with Toast 9 to be able to burn a basic, non-menu HD DVD. They swore it would work, The unit instructions said it would work with mac and indeed it did when we followed directions and changed the power cable and plugged it in to a sata connection on the board. Well, it plays fine and records data without issue, but we couldn't burn an HD DVD that would play in our clients player.
After many hours with Roxio and Pioneer we were told that it is a firmware issue and that we need to download new firmware. So here's the rub. There is no firmware link for a mac, we were then told we need to uninstall the drive, install it in a PC get the firmware and then reinstall it in the Mac.
Got 4 Macs here and no PCs. So, my question is: Is there anyway that Boot Camp or one of those other PC for Mac programs you guys always talk about will allow firmware to come through the Mac?
Thanks for any suggestions, in advance
I assume by "HD DVD" you actually mean "Blu-Ray Disk" right? Because the 2 formats are not compatable and the specs on Pioneer's website make no claim about supporting HD DVD
http://www.pioneer.eu/eur/products/45/104/442/BDC-202/index.html
other than that, i got nothin'
good luck!
Happy Editing!
Yes. I am trying to burn a short DVCProHD quicktime program to a 25gb Blu-Ray disk to p[ay on a Aquos Blu-Ray player.
Thanks for that clarification!
Also, The link you provided is for the BDE-202 which reads but does not write blu-ray. Our unit is a BDR-202 single layer recorder which does. (Well it's supposed to)
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