pioneer dvr range seems very good even for copy protection

however theres really no such thing as a perfect drive for everything.

pioneer dvr =
fine for raw+96 read and write
good for ripping securom, image only not so hot for the topology
playsback twinpeak fine
burns twinpeak fine
burns and playsback all sd v upto 3.15 (dont recomend ripping any sd game with it tho
excellent DAE @ reasonable speed
also good at recovering badly scratched original data dvds inc PS2
burns all regular dvds inc console

wouldnt live without my antique litey 48x rw tho but its not good for making securom images, no liteon is afaik, well not with BW

Also i would not recomend using hacked f/w in a dvr drive to help with ripping speeds of movies etc

go spend some xtra on a udma mode 4 dvd-rom drive