I have a Pioneer DVR-108 drive. Currently my firmware is 1.14. I know I should upgrade again, which I will do shortly. I have lived with this annoyance for a long time now and figured I would try here for some help. It burns very slow. It takes me about 30 to 45 minutes to burn a normal movie DVD. Just the burn process not the rip and burn together. It takes about 30 minutes for the rip process. This too me is wayyy too slow being my cheap optorite DD0201 burns actually a little faster and it is only like a 4x DVD burner. I bought this drive when they were first coming out and I think I have already updated the firmware twice, but I have seen no changes in my burning results.

computer specs:
XP2400+
756MB ram
160GB Harddrive with at least 50% available
any tips on what is causing this and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated.

I have also tried various brands of DVD's phillips, Maxell, Memorex, Sony, Fujifilm, TDK, and possibly others.

Thanks,

check the first thing you should look at.....is DMA enabled?

They have a Rip limiter on them, so you can't read more than 2x, but you could get some modified FW if you want to read faster, if there is any for that model. cdfreaks might have something.

They have a Rip limiter on them, so you can't read more than 2x, but you could get some modified FW if you want to read faster, if there is any for that model. cdfreaks might have something.

what you on about?
i have a pioneer 108,and have never heard of such limits

Dont you have a read limiter? There is hacked FW out:
this firmware allows you to burn 4x ,8x and 12x at 16 speed m8, on all media, region free and 12x rip