That'd buy you two new Samsung 16x48 drives, ORAC, so you could set them on different regions!
I have the download for mine (a Samsung SD-616F F101) from the firmware site, but seem to have two choices of file. The readme says
-F101U -> UDMA
-F101D -> DMA
I assume that is Direct Memory Access (DMA) or Ultra DMA. Now my computer uses DMA (at least that is the option for drives in the "Systems" bit of the Control Panel) so do I choose this? Or is it related to the exact model of DVD-ROM (there are two sub-models covered by this download)?
P.S. This is just the official Samsung flash, the patch is yet to come. However I can apparently back up my firmware, so fingers crossed