PC hardware: Best choice DVD for burning videos
Best choice DVD for burning videos
by ippo - 5/17/05 9:34 PMWhat brand of dvd is best for burning dvd-videos. Sony? Pioneer? Samsung? Lite-On?
Do you think dvd burner with capabilities of only burning any type of dvd is better than dvd burner that can burn both dvds and cds?
thanks
sky
LG
by Islander - 5/18/05 2:59 AM In reply to: Best choice DVD for burning videos by ippoI have an LG 4163b and it works great. It reads everything except CD+G ? and writes everything except Mount Ranier. With DVD shrink and DVD decrypter you can do about anything you want.
Unless I missed something?
by chuckieu - 5/18/05 8:59 AM In reply to: Best choice DVD for burning videos by ippoAll(that I have seen) DVD burners by default also burn CDs. Sort of like USB 2.0 being backward compatible with
USB 1.1. I find I still burn more CDs than DVDs, even with the latest double-sided burner. Hope this helps. chuck
(NT) Plextor or Pioneer
by Oil_Tan - 5/18/05 1:41 PM In reply to: Best choice DVD for burning videos by ippobest DVD burner for the buck
by jimmycorp - 5/21/05 5:58 AM In reply to: (NT) Plextor or Pioneer by Oil_Tani have two rosewill dvd burners, they work great & were dirt cheap around $60 pn newegg.com. They are super silent even when burning, just make sure to uprgrade your firmware to burn @ maximum speed
Avoid Plextor
by outsdr - 5/21/05 12:57 PM In reply to: (NT) Plextor or Pioneer by Oil_TanWhile I've never used Pioneer, I have a Plextor PX712A, and I will never buy this brand again. This is the second drive I've had; the first one would only burn to one brand of media, at 2x speed (along with a multitude of other problems), so after a lot of arguements with tech support they replaced it... with a refurbished model, which does better, but not by much. Plextor comes nowhere near to living up to the hype the company has generated.
update firmware
by Oil_Tan - 5/23/05 7:46 PM In reply to: Avoid Plextor by outsdrFor your plextor drive. I lean toward pioneer, but may buy a plextor next. I use mostly -R, pioneers firmware is top shelf.
Has latest firmware
by outsdr - 5/24/05 9:36 PM In reply to: update firmware by Oil_TanI'm using the latest firmware; I'm convinced that Plextor makes junk. 50%+ of the disks I burn can't even be read back from the plextor drive, let alone from a different drive on another machine.
Plextor PX-708UF
by jbyers2 - 5/25/05 12:19 PM In reply to: Avoid Plextor by outsdrI use an external FirweWire/USB 2 Plextor drive, and it works flawlessly. I'm very pleased with this unit.
(NT) Lite-On
by jrmar07 - 5/21/05 9:12 AM In reply to: Best choice DVD for burning videos by ippoWOW! ONE MORE QUESTION
by ippo - 5/21/05 9:20 AM In reply to: (NT) Lite-On by jrmar07wow, thanks everybody for their opinion. I was needing a new dvd-burner because my pacific digital can not even burn to how fast I set it, I tried fixing it with firmwire upgrades and other stuff but no luck. So thats why I am deciding to buy a new one. Hey if I add on another dvd-burner, do you think I should also upgrade my 160 Watt stock power supply unit to 350 watt, because I have two hards, a stock cd-drive, and if I add a new dvd-burner, would it be best to upgrade my PSU then?
thanks for the replies on choosing which burners.
(NT) I would replace the PSU before buying a new burner.
by hpc - 5/21/05 9:46 AM In reply to: WOW! ONE MORE QUESTION by ippoPower supply
by jimmycorp - 5/21/05 11:08 AM In reply to: WOW! ONE MORE QUESTION by ippoDo yourself a favor and get a good quality power supply before you do anything else. SOmething in the range of 450-500w just to be sure. If you want to play it really safe get a 600w,thats what I use, just in case.
which psu is better?
by ippo - 5/21/05 7:13 PM In reply to: Power supply by jimmycorpI looked up psu at newegg.com but i can not tell which one is more reliable than the other? Are enermax and atx good brand name? Any other brand name that you guys prefer?
thx
psu
by Islander - 5/22/05 4:50 AM In reply to: which psu is better? by ippoHere is a nice psu
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=9934&vpn=SL400&manufacture=ANTEC
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