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Review: Liteon iHBS112 2 |
Liteon was kind enough to send us the iHBS112 Blu-ray writer for review. The drive supports 12x Blu-ray writing and 8x reading, in addition, this drive also supports DVD±R/RW, DVD-RAM and CD-R/RW writing. In this review we will be testing out the latest Blu-ray burner, the iHBS112 from Liteon.
The Liteon iHBS112 supports writing at 12x BD-R, 2x BD-RE, 16x DVD±R, 8x/6x DVD+RW/-RW, and 8x DVD+R DL/-R DL writing technology. So let’s get a closer look at the iHBS112.
Drive Specifications
We found the specifications of the iHBS112 at the liteon website
Packaging
The drive was a bulk version, and it came with a SATA cable and a cd-rom of Cyberlink BD Solution v6.
First let’s take a look at the drive.
The front of the IHBS112 is simple and follows the typical liteon stile. We can see various logos, an emergency eject hole, a single green LED and an eject button.
Drive top
Drive bottom
On the top of the drive we found two labels and we can see the drive was manufactured in China during May 2010.
Now let’s head on to the next page were we can take a look at the features of the drive….
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Please test more Blu-ray media. Burning 3-4 types at 2x or 4x doesn't quite cut it.
yeah, some Verbatim and TDK 6x BD-R and BD-R DL media would be better tests as most people don't want to burn at 2x or 4x.
The BIG issue with Liteon iHBS112 is the fact that it does not work with BD-R LTH discs.
It is a new burner and the odd thing is the old Liteon DH-4B1S worked with LTH even though you needed a firmware upgrade. That was before LTH disc where on the market, but now you would expect all new Blu-Ray burners to work with LTH discs. 2x is slow but media is cheap, a lot of people will like LTH becaus of the media price.
It is a new burner and the odd thing is the old Liteon DH-4B1S worked with LTH even though you needed a firmware upgrade. That was before LTH disc where on the market, but now you would expect all new Blu-Ray burners to work with LTH discs. 2x is slow but media is cheap, a lot of people will like LTH becaus of the media price.
Supposedly it works with LtH media from TY.
This are all the media that i have, if i get some more media with a higher speed i will update the review.
You can also view this thread for more.
@Dennis_Olof
Yes it was disappointing that the drive failed to burn the LTH discs, i hope that a new firmware will fix this.
You can also view this thread for more.
@Dennis_Olof
Yes it was disappointing that the drive failed to burn the LTH discs, i hope that a new firmware will fix this.
Good NEWS.
Wrote to the people at Liteon IT Support.
As I write this they informed me that they are working on a new firmware that will support LTH BD-R discs and it will be in the next firmware release. When it will be released I don't know but I guess it will be out soon enough.
So thats it, this drive is the the one to buy. Getting it asap.
Thanks for a great review
Wrote to the people at Liteon IT Support.
As I write this they informed me that they are working on a new firmware that will support LTH BD-R discs and it will be in the next firmware release. When it will be released I don't know but I guess it will be out soon enough.
So thats it, this drive is the the one to buy. Getting it asap.
Thanks for a great review
Thanks for the review.
The quality scans look horrible in my eyes, or is it just me? I guess, low quality scores and yellow/red peaks are bad.
The quality scans look horrible in my eyes, or is it just me? I guess, low quality scores and yellow/red peaks are bad.
I wouldn't put too much faith in the BD quality scans. It has yet to be shown that any of these drives are actually accurate in this regard.
How can a drive support writing at a higher speed than reading?
Hmm ... the discs wobble too much to be able to read them, but focussing a laser on them, and burning a hole in the dye is fine .. seriously? WTF?
Hmm ... the discs wobble too much to be able to read them, but focussing a laser on them, and burning a hole in the dye is fine .. seriously? WTF?
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Originally Posted by Im a PC
I wouldn't put too much faith in the BD quality scans. It has yet to be shown that any of these drives are actually accurate in this regard.
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Red peaks, okay, shit happens... But no reliable quality scans at all? Sounds not good
got an email from Liteon telling that a new firmware upgrade CL06 should be already available via SmartPack.
im keep trying but it doesnt find anything new...
Anyway i really hope they fixed those bugs,some of them are really "heavy".
Wasted many bd that arent read by my samsung 1500 while Liteon can read it perfectly
im keep trying but it doesnt find anything new...
Anyway i really hope they fixed those bugs,some of them are really "heavy".
Wasted many bd that arent read by my samsung 1500 while Liteon can read it perfectly
I also checked today with smartpack and i also got the same result, No new firmware is available for this drive.
yeah finally! tryed few minutes ago and here we go new firmware available via smartpack
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5835/firmwareg.jpg
as you can see its called "CL0B", i've installed it and lets hope they fixed all
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5835/firmwareg.jpg
as you can see its called "CL0B", i've installed it and lets hope they fixed all
no way liteon! tryed to burn a verbatim LTH with nero 8.3.2.1 and no way
still got that error at the beginning of burning:
"its not possible to use Disk-at-once mode" and stopped
so what did they really fixed? meanwhile ANOTHER bd wasted.
still got that error at the beginning of burning:
"its not possible to use Disk-at-once mode" and stopped
so what did they really fixed? meanwhile ANOTHER bd wasted.
Try at 2x...........
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Originally Posted by _chef_
Try at 2x...........
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Anyway dont know why Nero gave me that error
anyway i've been able to burn the same media with Imgburn with no problems! Finally. Also because i like more Imgburn then Nero (still wondering whats happened tho)
Liteon suggest me to that the drive could be fault,but hows that? Since imgburn can make perfect disk
Liteon suggest me to that the drive could be fault,but hows that? Since imgburn can make perfect disk
Nice, subscribing to thread!
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Originally Posted by Gymno
yup i can only burn at that speed.cant set lower or higher. Meanwhile i tryed that bd (only ~350mb were written) with imgburn and i was able to write something into. Yet still not playable with my bluray player.
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Start with posting a FULL log.
"The other issue if that you need to manually set the BookType."
What does "manually" mean? In what way is this different than other burners? What is considered normal?
What does "manually" mean? In what way is this different than other burners? What is considered normal?
Depends on your burning app.
Which is used?
Which is used?
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"The other issue if that you need to manually set the BookType."
What does "manually" mean? In what way is this different than other burners? What is considered normal? |
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Originally Posted by vroom
It means that you need to set the booktype manually through your burning software, like IMGBurn or nero disc speed.
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Yes, some drives can have that option, plextor has it. i think that you can do that with a liteon drive also, and some other drives need to patch the firmware for bitesetting to be auto set to dvd-rom
I haven't been keeping up with the forum for sometime now.... But, I think it's time for me to get a blu-ray drive preferably one that "plays" back 3D.
This is a key feature since 3D capable standalone players are still expensive and some seem proprietary in the manner that 3D content is viewed on their HDTV sets with those glasses. Perhaps, I was "Misled" by reading the Lite-On advertising that you could setup a HTPC (with this drive installed) and view 3D playback on *any* 3D HDTV out there.
I read the above thread comments and review that any BD drive should be able to rip 3D blu-ray content off a 3D blu-ray disc, which I believe is correct, since it's just data residing on a disc (i.e filesystem). However, my questions are to do with "playback" i.e. output a 3D picture on a 3D capable HDTV, now I did not see this capability being evaluated in the reviews, presumably a PC needs to be configured like a HTPC with HDMI connected to a 3D HDTV set.
I presume that it would be such that 3D playback via PowerDVD (with the 3D feature) output via HDMI to a 3D HDTV and somebody with those 3D glasses could confirm the 3D playback capability of this drive? Also, there is the HD Audio content supposedly rated higher in throughput at HDMI 1.4 specs which needs to be evaluated.
It's Jan 25, 2011 today, and I am wondering if there is any new firmware released by Lite-On to support LTH disc burning.
Lastly, is there any developer on this forum working on optimizing the firmware for this blu-ray drive? (Is CodeKing still here with us?)
Sorry for all the questions... but I hope someone could educate/correct me if I was misled with the 3D playback capability.
This is a key feature since 3D capable standalone players are still expensive and some seem proprietary in the manner that 3D content is viewed on their HDTV sets with those glasses. Perhaps, I was "Misled" by reading the Lite-On advertising that you could setup a HTPC (with this drive installed) and view 3D playback on *any* 3D HDTV out there.
I read the above thread comments and review that any BD drive should be able to rip 3D blu-ray content off a 3D blu-ray disc, which I believe is correct, since it's just data residing on a disc (i.e filesystem). However, my questions are to do with "playback" i.e. output a 3D picture on a 3D capable HDTV, now I did not see this capability being evaluated in the reviews, presumably a PC needs to be configured like a HTPC with HDMI connected to a 3D HDTV set.
I presume that it would be such that 3D playback via PowerDVD (with the 3D feature) output via HDMI to a 3D HDTV and somebody with those 3D glasses could confirm the 3D playback capability of this drive? Also, there is the HD Audio content supposedly rated higher in throughput at HDMI 1.4 specs which needs to be evaluated.
It's Jan 25, 2011 today, and I am wondering if there is any new firmware released by Lite-On to support LTH disc burning.
Lastly, is there any developer on this forum working on optimizing the firmware for this blu-ray drive? (Is CodeKing still here with us?)
Sorry for all the questions... but I hope someone could educate/correct me if I was misled with the 3D playback capability.
I dont know much about 3D, and unfortunately i dont have a TV that is capable of 3D so i cant test it. Also as far as i can tell the drive should be able to play all the 3D discs, the plextor PX-LB950SA can do that, and it's a liteon clone, so this drive should also be able to do the same.
Liteon, has updated the firmware since then, and it should be fixed by now.
The last question can only be answered by CK, but i dont think that you will see much tweak on the firmware.
Liteon, has updated the firmware since then, and it should be fixed by now.
The last question can only be answered by CK, but i dont think that you will see much tweak on the firmware.
"Playing back 3D" can be done by ANY BD drive.
For standalones the monitor/TV counts.
For standalones the monitor/TV counts.
having the same probs, got 10 LTH coasters, spent months emailing roxio, then liteon, who were very helpful UNTIL.............i asked about burning an AVCHD ISO image that i wanted to burn to bluray, the they stopped replying to me????? but after reading this i gather it must be the disks that are the problem.
Well, WHY should they give you advice on some ISO that is non-standard?
well.................maybe cos im using their drive to burn and would be nice if they would help their customers with any queries they have, after all its their product and should know if there would be a problem, but since their PLDS doesn't seem to update drivers.........or............if it does, it still don't work with LTH discs, ordered standard bluray discs and will give them a try when they arrive
As far as i know liteon has fixed this problem, with the latest firmware.
Here is a burn from an older version of the firmware, http://club.myce.com/f142/liteon-ihb...ml#post2541821
Here is a burn from an older version of the firmware, http://club.myce.com/f142/liteon-ihb...ml#post2541821
besides, roxio flags no warning when trying to burn AVCHD video to bluray and when in contact with them, so that shouldnt be the problem, and have to admit roxio have better customer support from when i had creator 5, 2 weeks for a reply, but they are excellent now, tho creator pro 11 does hang badly some times anyone else had That problem?
just used my last LTH disc the other day, tried smartpack continually over a month, no new updates, so? if i have up to date firmware they still aren't burning successfully, ill see what happens when i get my standard discs
try unistall smartpack and redownload it from the official site. Then force an upgrade...for me worked in these way!
problem solved. just bought different type of br discs, burn successful. now my only problem is finding something to play the discs on pc is ok, but PS3 wont touch it
Start learning to obey the forum rules and not hijacking other threads.
crossflashing with PX-LB950SA_1.03WIN possible?
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crossflashing with PX-LB950SA_1.03WIN possible?
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by crossflashing this drive i didnt expect anything. for me its a "nice to have feature" 
plextor 950SA bin firmware and eeprom:
http://www.fileuploadx.de/431927
liteon 112 bin firmware and eeprom:
http://www.fileuploadx.de/241454
flashed my ihbs112 to 950sa without problems.
http://www.fileuploadx.de/431927
liteon 112 bin firmware and eeprom:
http://www.fileuploadx.de/241454
flashed my ihbs112 to 950sa without problems.
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