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 Posted: Wed, 30th Jun 2004 15:31 Post subject: Which DVD Burner Should I Buy? |
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Ok! I really want a good DVD burner with a speed of no less than 8X. I want it to support all the medias and a good price will be nice.
I know that Philips recently released a 16X DVD burner, but I couldn't find it anywhere or its price.
Please suggest a good DVD burner and a link would be appreciated.
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Jun 2004 15:42 Post subject: |
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I recently read a review about dvd burner in a computer mag. And they said that the NEC ND-2510A and the LGGSA-4120B are both not bad. They both can write DL media, but only the NEC can change the book type field.
If you dont need the DL feature i would recommend the Plextor PX-712A or the Phillips DVDRW824K.
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Jun 2004 23:00 Post subject: |
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I think I'll go on the Get the NEC ND-2510, seems like just what i need.
Thanks a lot.
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Hitman02
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2004 00:05 Post subject: |
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plextor 708 or plextor 712
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2004 02:17 Post subject: |
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I googled the plextor 712 and the first result i got was this:
Problems with PLextor 712
I think i'll get the NEC.
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2004 18:46 Post subject: |
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Dont buy any of them yet, wait for Blu-Ray 
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2004 19:39 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2004 19:54 Post subject: |
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Its a new laser technology. These lasers are blue and not red like the ones currently used. These drives will have more capacity, i read something about 50GB. But dont ask me how this technology works.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2004 20:00 Post subject: |
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When will it be out and how much a blu-ray drive will cost?
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2004 21:03 Post subject: |
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It burns onto multiple layers. Yes a disc can hold about 50GB of storage I believe. There is a Panasonic drive coming out this month I believe, if you wait a month or two, your looking at $200 USD for a drive.
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jul 2004 00:37 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info, i'll reconsider...
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jul 2004 00:39 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jul 2004 00:49 Post subject: |
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Wow this blu-ray thing is great! But it's pretty costly and i think not all the medias/software will support it as of now.
I think I'm gonna go for the NEC.
Thanks a lot for the help everyone.
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| Posted: Sat, 3rd Jul 2004 13:39 Post subject: |
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Get a Dual Layer Burner... They are cheap £50 - £60
George W Bush -
'...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas.'
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jul 2004 14:41 Post subject: |
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Blue Ray will be VERy expensive, Its not made for normal use...
Here is everything you need to know about Blu-Ray.
http://www.blu-ray.com/
PS: Sony is planning to use this disc technology in the PS3 (so rumors say).
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jul 2004 15:12 Post subject: |
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Blu Ray is some crazy shit man.. 50 GB storage...but what is the speed of one of these discs?
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jul 2004 16:04 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | How fast can you record a Blu-ray Disc?
According to the Blu-ray Disc v1.0 specification, 1x speed will require a 36Mbps data transfer rate, which means it will take about 1 hour and 40 minutes to record 27GB. The Blu-ray Disc Founders are currently working on the v2.0 specification, which will support 2x speed to cut the time it takes to copy content from one disc to another in half. In the future, the data transfer rate is expected to be raised to 8x or more. |
Writing is usually slower then Reading so it wont be slow at all, especially at its transfer rate! I mean thats acouple megs a second there... No load times at all!
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jul 2004 16:34 Post subject: |
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I dont know what you are talking about its not meant to be for home use. Everything eventually ends up in our homes. Its like gates saying people will never need more than 640kb of ram.
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jul 2004 18:19 Post subject: |
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Never said home, I ment Normal every day use... I mean hell how many people are willing to buy the burner for $1000 and $25 per disc? Just not really practical right now. Maybe in acouple years...
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| Posted: Thu, 8th Jul 2004 18:59 Post subject: |
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The first cd-writers did cost more then these blu-ray writers. I remember the very first pioneer writer cost about $2500 and a cd $50. But you could use this writer for mastering, maybe thats the reason for the high price.
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Jul 2004 10:53 Post subject: |
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I've got a Liteon 8x DVD burner.. and I've owned many Liteon cd burners.. and they've never failed me..
My first 2 DVD Burners though were both LG (4x and 8x) and both died on me during warrenty.. I won't recommend and a cheap ass LG to anyone.
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razor1394
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| Posted: Mon, 12th Jul 2004 08:41 Post subject: |
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Exon -> There is no need to buy a blueray burner if you wan't to backup unless blueray drives can burn DVD-/+r discs because all dvd-r releases are release for burning on dvd discs and not blueray same with dvd games.
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Mon, 12th Jul 2004 14:30 Post subject: |
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I'm pretty sure they can.
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