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PC hardware: Best choice DVD for burning videos

by ippo - 5/17/05 9:34 PM
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Best choice DVD for burning videos

by ippo - 5/17/05 9:34 PM

What 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

Post 2 of 22

LG

by Islander - 5/18/05 2:59 AM In reply to: Best choice DVD for burning videos by ippo

I 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.

Post 3 of 22

Unless I missed something?

by chuckieu - 5/18/05 8:59 AM In reply to: Best choice DVD for burning videos by ippo

All(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

Post 4 of 22

(NT) Plextor or Pioneer

by Oil_Tan - 5/18/05 1:41 PM In reply to: Best choice DVD for burning videos by ippo

Post 5 of 22

best DVD burner for the buck

by jimmycorp - 5/21/05 5:58 AM In reply to: (NT) Plextor or Pioneer by Oil_Tan

i 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

Post 6 of 22

Avoid Plextor

by outsdr - 5/21/05 12:57 PM In reply to: (NT) Plextor or Pioneer by Oil_Tan

While 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.

Post 7 of 22

update firmware

by Oil_Tan - 5/23/05 7:46 PM In reply to: Avoid Plextor by outsdr

For your plextor drive. I lean toward pioneer, but may buy a plextor next. I use mostly -R, pioneers firmware is top shelf.

Post 8 of 22

Has latest firmware

by outsdr - 5/24/05 9:36 PM In reply to: update firmware by Oil_Tan

I'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.

Post 9 of 22

Plextor PX-708UF

by jbyers2 - 5/25/05 12:19 PM In reply to: Avoid Plextor by outsdr

I use an external FirweWire/USB 2 Plextor drive, and it works flawlessly. I'm very pleased with this unit.

Post 10 of 22

(NT) Lite-On

by jrmar07 - 5/21/05 9:12 AM In reply to: Best choice DVD for burning videos by ippo

Post 11 of 22

WOW! ONE MORE QUESTION

by ippo - 5/21/05 9:20 AM In reply to: (NT) Lite-On by jrmar07

wow, 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.

Post 12 of 22

(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 ippo

Post 13 of 22

Power supply

by jimmycorp - 5/21/05 11:08 AM In reply to: WOW! ONE MORE QUESTION by ippo

Do 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.

Post 14 of 22

which psu is better?

by ippo - 5/21/05 7:13 PM In reply to: Power supply by jimmycorp

I 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

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