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blublue · 03-08-2007

Unfortunately it seems Philips has had a change of plans on 50 GB support.

I just received a SPD7000BD and found it only supported 25 GB writes, even with the latest firmware upgrade.

I checked with Philips support if there would be a firmware upgrade for 50 GB and they told me:

"The drive is able to read a Dual Layer disc, but it is only capable of writing to the single layer Blu-Ray disc. The hardware is not able to burn to a Dual layer 50GB disc, so no firmware update will enable that feature."

Alas. I had bought this drive specifically because I had thought it would support dual-layer Blu-ray writing. But it looks like that isn't going to happen.

03-08-2007	#8 (permalink)
blublue New on Forum Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2	SPD7000BD won't support dual-layer Blu-ray writing. Unfortunately it seems Philips has had a change of plans on 50 GB support. I just received a SPD7000BD and found it only supported 25 GB writes, even with the latest firmware upgrade. I checked with Philips support if there would be a firmware upgrade for 50 GB and they told me: "The drive is able to read a Dual Layer disc, but it is only capable of writing to the single layer Blu-Ray disc. The hardware is not able to burn to a Dual layer 50GB disc, so no firmware update will enable that feature." Alas. I had bought this drive specifically because I had thought it would support dual-layer Blu-ray writing. But it looks like that isn't going to happen.