Here you can find utilities that are useful for aspects relating to CD/DVD burning and firmware related, including DiscInfo, Nero Disc SpeedDiscInfo - Utility to see information about a Drive's Status
VSO Inspector - get your hardware details, Media ID and get stats online about success rate of your discs and writers
Nero CD-DVD Speed - A program for testing optical drives and media
DvdInfo - Useful program for information on Drives, Media, setting booktype and more
DVD Region Killer - Program to enable the user to play all region DVD's
AnyDVD - Enables bypassing of Drive and Software Region Limits, also HD/Blueray
LtnRPC - Removes Region Lock on MTK Chipset Drives, (Liteon and more)
MCSE - Great Utility for rip lock removal,region free, media write strategy changes and more
ImgBurn - Can read, write, build, verify image files, and more
DVRFlash - Flashing Pioneer Drives with new and old firmware, as well as Crossflashing
Omnipatcher - Tool to patch liteon firmwares
BinFlash - Utility to Backup, flash NEC based drive's firmware
Samsung Patch Utility - Modify firmwares to RPC1, Read speed, and more
Optimal Writing Speed Utility - Pioneer 116/216 Utility
UnderCoverXP - Printing CD/DVD Covers and more
This page will be updated with new utilites when available, many thanks to coaster for his suggestions
