DVD Burners

[GT98]

I need help in picking out a DVD Burner. I've been reading about the newer Dual layer buners that do 8.4GB on a DL Disc, but otherwise I have no clue as to whats out there and could use some suggestions.

[UtwigMU]

Regarding DL: The media is scarce, the speed is only 2.4.

By the time media comes arround in quantity, faster DL burners should come arround.

Get DL only if price difference is not big.

[SteveC]

Here now the NEC Dual Layer DVD burners cost the same as other normal DVD writers (~£50)

[chaoliang]

Wait at least one month or two, if you don't need it immediately. The DL drives won't be much more expensive. Here in Germany the Sony DL driver costs 99 Euro. But no media available yet.
I'm also waiting.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Sony and burners don't go together IMO.

I think you can look at LG for a moment. It writes anything you throw at it

[chaoliang]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
Sony and burners don't go together IMO.

I think you can look at LG for a moment. It writes anything you throw at it

I agree. Benq should also be nice. The other producers but Sony are a bit late this time. Maybe just because that Sony knows its chance being limited against them, so a quick launch is the only way to get a share.

[UtwigMU]

Personally I have my eyes set on Plextor PX-708A - 12x is too expensive considering DL is arround the corner, DL is not effective ATM, Plextor is Plextor.

[GT98]

I was looking at a lite-on SOHW-832S DVD burner...anyone here good/bad about it?

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
Sony and burners don't go together IMO.

I totally disagree. Many of the Sony burners are rebadged Lite-Ons.

[DentyCracker]

true dat wombat

[Claymonkey]

Originally posted by Wombat
I totally disagree. Many of the Sony burners are rebadged Lite-Ons.

So just buy a Lite-On then. I haven't bought anything other than lite-on for the last 4 years and I've never regretted it. Sony often puts their fingers into the pie (they have that right of course) and you unless you research you don't know which model is what.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by Wombat
I totally disagree. Many of the Sony burners are rebadged Lite-Ons.

lol that just rang the bell, read an article on that a month or 2 ago. I had real bad experience with Sony CD-R burners. I know that can change over time with DVDs being a different media, but I just don't trust sony with optical stuff anymore.

You know the thing, like one bad experience, and not going back.

However, their drive front panels do look nice

[DGhost]

i've been pissed off at ever lite-on i've owned. they have had knack for developing strange problems (or flat out dying) after ~6-12 months of use.

my TDK DVD burner (rebadged NEC 2500 - even has their FCC ID on it) has kicked ass since i've owned it, and I recently was able to flash it with the firmware to a newer model (TDK 882N - same as the NEC 2510a, which is coincidentally the same hardware as the NEC 2500 or the TDK 880N that I own, it just has Dual Layer support in it's firmware) and it still seems stable - burnt a DVD without fail the other night, but I do not have any DL media to test it with.

[HedsSpaz]

The NEC 2500/2510 are both highly regarded burners for burn quality. Check out the review of the 2500 at cdfreaks.com.

Newegg as a whopping 5$ difference between the 2500 and the 2510 atm. I just bought a 2510 last week and it's arriving today. In fact, fedex has already made their failed attempt at dropping it off so I'll be making a pit stop on my way home. I expect to be burning a whole bunch of crap tonight; 2 copies of each disc that I need to archive all my photo's (I think that puts me at 8 discs atm).

I'll let you know how it does after tonight.

Ian

[Mikko]

One of my friends has NEC ND-2500. We have found out that while it is quite good in reading/writing the disks which are burned with this particular DVD-writer, it doesn't read so well other disks witch are burned with other DVD-writers. We have seen this behavior with many cheap no-named medias so far. The situation can be very different when all of your friends are using well-known medias, such as TDK, Verbatim, Sony, etc.

I'm using TEAC DV-W50D (almost a year or so) and I haven't seen any problems with it so far. Actually, this drive uses Pioneer hardware, but TEAC has some own firmware for it.