Question. I live in the US and Benq didn't have the firmware update on the site if you choose US as the region you are from. Can I use the firmware to update my DW1655 (from Newegg) that is posted on the European site.
Is there a difference or is it just not released to US buyers yet? I have firmware BCAB and want to get the latest BCDB. Great drive, burned only 2 disks so far with no problems.
Hi,
If you look at this page on the US site, it implies 1655 not yet available.(Yes, I know it is.)The fact that the f/w was there & now is not. May have been an error when updating site.
http://www.benq.us/Products/DVDRewriter/ The above links in my previous post are global.
Whether you flash or not is up to you. Personally I'd recommend to flash, as I get better results with BCDB. However at this moment in time, if you flash there's no going back as there's only the one f/w.
I went ahead and flashed with BCDB from european site and had no problems, drive working fine so far. Reading, ripping and burning the few disks I did with no problems. I have had the drive only 4 days so have not tried all it's features yet but will post if I run into any Problems. Thanks all!
I bought the new Benq DW1655 and I upgraded to BCDB and I use TY media DVD-R printable, burn with imgburn, and use dvdShrink with AnyDVD in the background. I get some probs with stop and start its seems at every chapter or whatever. I burn at 2.4. I didn't have these with the old burn which was a Microadvantage DVD-R +r d/l burner. I kept hearing Benq is the best and I also wanted the LS but am not impressed yet. Any suggestion on what to do next. Any help would be a great help.
I believe other members here has had better results at 4x and 8x with the Ben-q.I have the 1640 and 1655 and always burn at 4x with Verbatim +R's booktyped to DVD-ROM no problems.
