I had the patched 1.10 firmware before and upped to the new 1.13 f/w release#3 was what I've settled with. Its working just the same as the 1.10. The 107 is now region free, can rip above the 2x fixed speed and can burn Riteks 4x DVD-R's at 6x or 8x without any DVD Movie playback problems on either of my DVD Players. I'm not going back to the official f/w.