Try to find one out of my own posts that doesn't include a source link just because it's foreign (foreign for me meaning either non-Korean or non-English depending on the base language of the forum I'm active in.) Both CDFreaks.com and CDRinfo.com are commercial in the sense that they need at least some income for running servers and more so it's like stealing intellectual property to post news contents without revealing the sources. Under South Korean law, it's a serious crime now (though it applies to only domestic residents.) I'm a translator myself sometimes writing IT news and marketing materials and I often do translations for free but there are a lot of people who copy and paste free works for their own money, or to pass exams because they themselves don't want to study, or to get a better promotion in companies. And CDRinfo.com and a lot of other sites around CDFreaks.com post news and reviews copy-and-pasted from others even when the sources are in English. (Well, kill me for saying that in public.)

If you want to credit CDRinfo.com for posting that, why not give me more credit since I spent some time to understand the original news in Japanese and translate into Korean and English and post the main points in English here? Honestly, I deserve more because I don't earn money and post without hiding the source. I have no reason to compete with or to hate anyone, but it's just one of the principles I've kept regarding internet activities for over 10 years.

By incompatibility between NEC-chipset drives and Hitachi-chipset drives, I meant the firmwares and flashers have different structures. Some of Samsung and Lite-On DVD writers at least share some things, like both being able to accept Mtkflash commands and burning and scanning similarly.

And lastly, don't hesitate to post Japanese sources if you have any. If important enough, there are some people here who can translate Japanese articles into English and I'll do if there's none.