While looking for other information by reading some earlier materials, I noticed that [SONY 710](FCx(this.href);)</FONT> also gives PIE/PIF scans similar to AUDIODEV’s CATS at least for certain discs, making it in the same rank as PLEXTOR 712 and LITEON 167T in this aspect. To my surprise, however, LITEON 1633 behaves differently, though it uses the same hardware as SONY 710. Since many people in this community have LITEON 1633, it will be interesting if somebody would compare scans based on the firmware for the two labels and share the results.
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