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| Thread ID: 74447 | 2006-11-23 00:11:00 | Dvd drive recommendation | Morgenmuffel (187) | Press F1 |
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| 501265 | 2006-11-23 00:11:00 | Hi all My long suffering cd drive died (actually its been dieing since about 2 days after it's warranty ran out), any way I want to replace it with a DVD burner What i want is cheap (I really don't want to pay more than $100 at the very max) reliable speed of burning is not that important, as it will probably only ever be used to burn the monthly backup backups I don't give a monkeys about blu-ray and whatever the heck the other one is, as i reckon it will be a while yet before that battle is over and the drives come down to within my pricerange There was another point but I have forgotten it, so i'll have to think about it I know I can look this up on the web, and I have had a quick skim of a few reviews, but as Is usual in these cases, i would rather cut through all the advertising double speak and hear from people who actuall use the damn things Cheers |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 501266 | 2006-11-23 00:45:00 | Cheap but fair quality... LG brand. | Greg (193) | ||
| 501267 | 2006-11-23 00:50:00 | Asus DRW-1608P3S c1com.co.nz Excellent burner and can be flashed with the Pioneer firmware to make it into a Pioneer drive if you really wanted. I have the original DRW-1608P and have flashed it with the Pioneer firmware to enable bitsetting with DVD+R discs which gives greater compatibility on set top DVD players. It now shows as a Pioneer DVR-109. |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 501268 | 2006-11-23 01:25:00 | Yup, I'm using the 1608PS3 and 1608P here. Never had a prob with them. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 501269 | 2006-11-23 03:09:00 | I have a DVD-RAM burner - burns all DVDs, see here (ascent.co.nz) (it's out of stock at the moment) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 501270 | 2006-11-23 03:11:00 | Pioneer 110D. Fantastic!. very reliable as you know its Pioneer. | gum digger (6100) | ||
| 501271 | 2006-11-23 03:36:00 | I moved from an Asus DVD ROM to an Asus 1608P2. The main reason was to eanble DVD burning, but also because the DVD ROM had started to be very picky about how scratched the discs could be. The 1608P2 is better, but it still picks up very minor scratches, esp when ripping CDs. If I were buying again, I'd probably not go with Asus, despite positive comments from pretty much everyone else... | Lizard (2409) | ||
| 501272 | 2006-11-23 03:43:00 | I have a DVD-RAM burner - burns all DVDs, see here (ascent.co.nz) (it's out of stock at the moment) Yup, the 1608PS3 supports burning to DVD-RAM as well. Altho, I havent got any blanks to try it out. I wouldnt mind using/trying DVD_RAM, since the stereo here can play DVD-RAM as well. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 501273 | 2006-11-23 04:45:00 | Cheap but fair quality... LG brand. LG = Goldstar. Pioneer, ASUS or Liteon are all good brands. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 501274 | 2006-11-23 15:54:00 | Cheap but fair quality... LG brand. I have 2 LG's and am happy to recommend them. They also burn every format you can think of.:) |
Vince (406) | ||
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