I've made more testing...
Often it says "disc is empty"... but it isn't they are my beloved films backups!!!
By the way, I always use Verbatim media... supposed to be high quality....
It actually makes some dvd copy (dvdDecrypter) but it does not always work... with 2 dvd (film backups) it's impssible, it arrives at 99%, then it begins a loop of reading errrors... infinite!!! It seems not to be able to read the outern sectors........ strange .....
Also, after opening/closing the tray a couple of times, it "sees" the disc....
Using DVDINFOPRO, it starts out saying: "Un-supported command: Your drive does not support the commands required to read MID codes on this media"
However, this happens with my backups, Verbatim 4x dvd-r media... maybe the Philips dislikes the -R media???
However, I put in two 8x TDK, one is -R, the other +R: the Philips drive has no problems inrecognizing them correctly......
I'm confused... maybe because it's very late now... and I'm very tired.....
Should I return this drive???
Maybe I'll do...
After reflashing it with the 2.2 firmware......