well
this disscusion is on fire
i have the drive and i tested it for 3 sheep and it turns NOT a 3 sheep burner
but it is proven to be a good drive making a lot of high quality DVD's on unlikely brands
i have had 3 generations of asus dvd wirters and they all preform well but not free from some a bug every now and then but for a Value VS money it's pretty nice
FOR THE RECORED:
i have recently updated the firmware into 1.14 and it effectely and noticably improved burning quality specially on DVD+R (i use Imation-CMC MAG,GigaMaX-Vebatim,TDK-Ritek, BenQ-RItek, LG) media