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  • Sun, May 25 2008 4:33 AM

    • duckyou
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    Burning Blu-Ray burner issue

    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

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  • Sun, May 25 2008 4:24 PM In reply to

    • FunkyDragon
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    Re: Burning Blu-Ray burner issue

    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!

     

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  • Sun, May 25 2008 7:12 PM In reply to

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    Re: Burning Blu-Ray burner issue

     

    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!

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  • Mon, May 26 2008 12:32 AM In reply to

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    Re: Burning Blu-Ray burner issue

    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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