Lite-On Optical Drives Flawed

I guess they’re not as flawless as I thought. Just the other night, my good friend (who also owns the same DVD burner as me) let me know that he resolved a freezing/skipping issue on burned discs that I’ve also been encounting sparatically by flashing his ROM in his drive, upgrading it to SOHW-1633S. I didn’t even recognize the problem because it doesn’t cause all DVD’s to skip. Here’s the broken, IE-only website: Lite-On Firmware Upgrades.

Wow, that really would have sucked if I had actually burned those 150+ DVD’s already…. sigh

UPDATE: Actually, many/most of the dics I had burned seem to play back fine. Only a couple that I can think of actually skipped with ogle (froze, never to return) and mplayer (froze for some seconds, then skipped ahead a bit and resumed) on my mythtv box, and at least one of them seemed to play back fine on my suitemate’s set-top DVD player.