All Pioneer drives will be LibreDrive supported

[Coopervid]

You can trust that Mike will keep his promise but you have to be patient. The Libredrive support for Pioneer drives also took very long. In addition Pioneer didn't like the firmware patches since these cracked their business model. Now Pioneer is out of the business and so the threat that Pioneer will take legal steps against these is not present anymore. And no cat and mouse game ( encryption is decrypted, so let's try the next round with stronger encryption).

[CalicoSkies]

...relevant for people considering paying a lot extra for the even rarer pre-2022-firmware Pioneer drives. If it's going to be on the order of months, then people may want to buy or (stick with already purchased) post-2022 firmware drives and wait for the "fix". If it's going to be on the order of a year or more, people may want to fork out now for the pre-2022 drives while they are still (somewhat) available and pay that premium. So the information is more relevant now than it ever will be.

I have a Pioneer BDR-212V that I bought this past October. It said it was manufactured in 2024, and I was able to successfully flash a firmware on it to get it to rip 4K movies. I just recently bought another as a spare and was able to successfully flash it too. I guess I don't know if the firmware on them was pre-2022 though.

[Coopervid]

...relevant for people considering paying a lot extra for the even rarer pre-2022-firmware Pioneer drives. If it's going to be on the order of months, then people may want to buy or (stick with already purchased) post-2022 firmware drives and wait for the "fix". If it's going to be on the order of a year or more, people may want to fork out now for the pre-2022 drives while they are still (somewhat) available and pay that premium. So the information is more relevant now than it ever will be.

I have a Pioneer BDR-212V that I bought this past October. It said it was manufactured in 2024, and I was able to successfully flash a firmware on it to get it to rip 4K movies. I just recently bought another as a spare and was able to successfully flash it too. I guess I don't know if the firmware on them was pre-2022 though.

It was always for the Vinpower drives. But supply is running dry....

[Beldin]

I have two BDR-212V drives with pre December 2022 firmware. 1.02

Looking forward to getting UHD to work.

[MartyMcNuts]

So, like, when?

No ETA. Just sometime in the future.

Fair enough, but if anyone has an idea on what scale of "future" we're thinking about, it would be helpful. Days, weeks, months, years. I don't think anyone is looking for promises, but it would help with purchasing decisions for a lot of folks. If anyone knows.

Well it's been worked on for 2.5 years so far, so, dunno, maybe double it??