In 2001 I bought a DVD/CD burner for the computer. It is a NEC 2500a. At the time if was one of the newer models. It was right before the prices on the burners started to drop. It was $90 at the time. You can get new burners for $30 now. Anyway, it burned DVDs that were rated up to 8x. That was the normal speed for the time. I have burned DVDs for years with out looking at the speed of the DVDs. The last time I went to burn DVDs i kept getting a message that the disc was illegal... Hmm? It took me a while to figure out that I had bought 16x DVDs and that they were now the norm and 8x were harder to find. I new that people find ways to tweak the firmware inside the burners and was able to track down the answer that saved me the money in buying a new DVD Burner. I just wanted to put it here just in case somebody else was looking for the answer.
How to make your NEC 2500a burn 16x DVDs and Dual Layer DVDs.
The basic idea is that you tell the 2500a that it is a 2510a (the 2xxx series were basically the same drive) and then flash the ROM to the tweaked Firmware.
1. Liggy's NEC drive converter :: This will change the drive from 2500a to 2510a
2. Dee's ND2510 modified firmware 2A5C :: This will flash the firmware to burn 16x discs
Reboot and burn baby burn...
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