[paranoia] poor quality & glitches

[Mikko Nummelin]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> It really depends on the firmware. Copy protections that are not compliant
> with the Redbook (most are not) rely on the way most CD drives firmwares are
> implemented. Some old CD drives are able to extract digital audio from
> protected discs, and some recent drives (including my plextor CD-RW drive)
> are not. Just try your luck with different hardware if yours fails.

These Plextor-related problems are quite a shame as Plextor specially
markets its drives as having superb error handling. In addition Plextor
drives are quite expensive compared to some other brands,  i.e. LG.

<p>Mikko Nummelin
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