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| Thread ID: 53020 | 2005-01-05 09:47:00 | Diff Between Pioneer DVD RW's | noone (22) | Press F1 |
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| 310928 | 2005-01-07 03:41:00 | good brands like pioneer and Nec with good dvdrw always have very good quality IMO its mostly the media , i think the extra price on the pionner drive is for the quiet drive technology and the cool look | noone (22) | ||
| 310929 | 2005-01-07 03:50:00 | The Pioneer A08XLA is just a retail version of the A08, and as you say has a more flasher face plate and the quiet drive technology. So you pay for the cosmetic extra's as both burn and function the same. I have the NEC 3500a drive, and it is certainly quiet to use anyway - it is also a tad plain looking but I was buying for quality and performance and not its looks :p | Jen (38) | ||
| 310930 | 2005-01-11 10:21:00 | To get back to you Noone . The Pioneer does use the NEC chips, as do a lot of other drives, but not all the functionality of the chip is drawn out by the rest of the hardware and the drivers/firmware . I have an NEC 3500 which I'm very pleased with, it's good all rounder, but the DVD RW drives are moving so fast it is obsolete already, although a firmware upgrade will probably get over that for awhile as the firmware coupled with the chip is the main driving force of a drives capabilities, as far as I can tell, without the application of major hardware or format advances . The chip and firmware (upgrade) is nicely illustrated by one manufacturers recent, latest and greatest model (using an NEC chip BTW) being exactly the same inside as the previous model, the only difference being a firmware upgrade and a bigger price, ouch! :( for the poor sods who didn't do their homework or got sucked by the salesman, but the smart ones bought the old model at a discount and simply upgraded the firmware :D . Then again they wern't smart enough to get the NEC drive which is better than both . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 310931 | 2005-01-11 11:44:00 | and here i was thinking that it having duel layer was up to date , what other new tech is coming out that will make this drive obsolete apart from HD dvd which isnt expected for a while anyway | noone (22) | ||
| 310932 | 2005-01-11 12:30:00 | Maybe just speed and accuracy boosts with perhaps a pinch of compatibility, or not ;) | Murray P (44) | ||
| 310933 | 2005-01-11 20:09:00 | Maybe just speed and accuracy boosts with perhaps a pinch of compatibility, or not ;) Definitely worth a wait in my case. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 310934 | 2005-01-11 20:36:00 | I got the Asus 1604P, the other day. Not a bad burner. Cheaper than the NEC or Pioneer (if those prices excluded GST). If not, then cheaper than the Pioneer. Not too worried about the cdr/rw speeds. I'll just use this burner for DVD's and the faster one just for cd's. I was going to get the Pioneer, but since most of the things in this are Asus, I thought I might as well stick with Asus. I had a Pioneer burner previously the A06. Which is still here now, doing nothing. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 310935 | 2005-04-03 11:43:00 | I want to burn an ISO image with a size of 4,153 and I tried using Nero Burning Rom Ultra Edition but it didn't work. The disc that I am using is a DVD-RW 4.7G 4x and its a imation. Please can someone help. Nero wont recognise my disc. | eamon31 (6789) | ||
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