New Firmware for Pioneer A03,A04,A05

found @ (german)board: Here the link to the firmware: DVR-A05 1.21 DVR-A04 1.40 DVR-A03 2.00 :D merry christmas, mcp.

Great, the firmware for the A05 removes the annoying mountdelay with CD-R-media. My A05 needed about 20s to mount a simple Taiyo-Yuden-CD-R, and sounded very stressed during the process. Now it mounts the empy media smoothly and without any unusual delay. I haven't had time to check DVD-R, but after one catastrophic failure, my stocks in DVD-Rs are all high-quality brands, so I don't care for the moment. Thanks for the heads-up :-) Bye, Detlev

105/A05 firmware 1.21 experiences 

if anyone is interested in user comments about the 105/a05 1.21 firmware: DA

The comments at that source do not seem very competent. There are a lot of posts complaining about bad discs from cheap media, and the fact that those fake TDKs are still working badly. I guess they never read about GIGO. Bye, Detlev

I don't see any updates for my DVR-103. There is only update for DVR-A03. They name DVR-A05 and DVR-105 together and also A04 and 104 but only A03 and not 103. What gives? What should I do?

the a03 is a bulk , the 103 is the version with software.... i think, so the burners are identical, only the software-package is different.

The upgrade went fine on my A03. It also allows it to burn 2X on the new Ritek G04's :) pretty cool!

@Atreides Where did you buy those Ritek G04 ? Are you happy with them after burning in x2 ?

I got them at supermediastore.com I think Rima.com also has them. They look the same as the Ritek G03's