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06/14/2006 12:03:20 PM · #1 |
I want to replace my current DVD burner and software and I'm hoping some of you can point me in the right direction.
I currently have a Toshiba SD-R5002 drive and the Pinnacle InstantCD/DVD software that came with the drive. This combo works okay for burning CDs, but sucks badly when it comes to burning DVDs. It's ridiculously slow, and more often than not the resulting disks are unreadable, even in the drive that just burned them. I'm tired of waiting forever only to find that the stupid thing wasted yet another DVD.
Can anyone suggest a good, fast DVD drive and/or software package for a PC?
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06/14/2006 12:07:01 PM · #2 |
| I've always heard good things about Asus/Sony drives and Nero software. Don't have a burner, but I have a Sony DVD ROM and it has been working fine for the last two years, and I use it a lot. |
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06/14/2006 12:19:30 PM · #3 |
Drives quality vary from time to time even for same company. I actually had problems with Plextors. For software go with Nero (not NeroExpress).
Nick
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06/14/2006 12:33:18 PM · #4 |
Sony all the way, I've used 5 of them and had no problems at all. You can get the 16+ speed burners bundled with Nero as well.
Plextor Drives are nice but at a cost, they are notorious for reading bad blocks and trying to recover the data resulting in CRC errors. A lot of copy protection on DVD / CD's use bad blocks to "fool" readers.
Anyway, JM2C.
Edit to add: What are you burning to DVD's? Data, music, movies etc??
Message edited by author 2006-06-14 12:34:50.
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06/14/2006 12:58:10 PM · #5 |
LaCie (external) drives seem pretty rugged and reliable -- you should be able to get one with both USB II and Firewire 2 connectivity in the same case. I don't know whose drive mechanism they are using now.
They usually come bundled with Toast or EZ CD Media Creator from Roxio.
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06/14/2006 01:45:03 PM · #6 |
| If I were you I would wait a little while. Blue Ray writers are just becoming available and store 25GB per disc. A bit expensive at the moment but the price will drop soon (Hopefully) |
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06/14/2006 01:59:17 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by rocket:
If I were you I would wait a little while. Blue Ray writers are just becoming available and store 25GB per disc. A bit expensive at the moment but the price will drop soon (Hopefully) |
You'll have to wait a long time cause most people will not have the ability to read your Blu-Ray disks, and you'll only be able to use them yourself. Good for personal backups though. BUT, I would never put 25GB of data on one disk. You lose one disk and you lose approx 800 RAW files at 30MB/file.. |
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06/14/2006 05:21:36 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by naldslc:
Edit to add: What are you burning to DVD's? Data, music, movies etc?? |
About a gazillion megs of photos.
Thanks for the help everyone!
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06/15/2006 09:12:55 AM · #9 |
The current recommended DVD burners at on the Whirlpool broadband forum (nothing to do with the whitegoods manufacturer) can be found here.
Currently, in order they are:
ΓΆ€ΒΆ Pioneer DVR-111/DVR-111D
ΓΆ€ΒΆ BenQ DW1650/DW1655
ΓΆ€ΒΆ LG GSA-4167B/GSA-4166B
Not sure what burning software each of these comes with, but if you check the vendor sites, you should be able to find out.
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