News of CD-R/CD-RW Drives

I picked up my first Liteon at Circuit City yesterday. I expected it to be more noisy, but dayam!!!

anyways...i'm not sure if its normal. But when I open the tray...It comes out fast, then at about half way...it slows down.

I'm curious if this is normal, or if I have a drive that maybe breaking down already?

hi everyone, i dunno if im posting my topic in the right category. anyway

i have a Karaoke CD, & i wanna make a copy of it.. but the problem is. my dvd drve ( aopen 1648A ) thinks its a AudioCD. same thing with my burner ( LG GCE-8320B ).

I think the burner doesnt support CD+G.. but is there a way to copy these Kareoke CDs!!

thank you!!

CDRLabs has taken a look at TDK's new external writer, the veloCD 48/16/48 USB 2.0 CD-RW. Along with an attractive external case and an ultra fast USB 2.0 interface, this drive has many of the features we've come to expect from TDK including buffer underrun protection and support for the Mt. Rainier format. In this review we'll take a look at some of the veloCD's features and then see how it performs. Does it deliver ...

What is the fastest record time any of you have ever got for a full 700mb CD? I'm interested in Knowing!

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/blu-ray/index.html

Is there really that much difference between the cheap and the expensive discs?

The first CDRs I bought were Kodac Gold because they were half-price but since I have been buying the cheapest CDs I can find. I never had any problems with these cheap CDs in terms of compatibility and quality of burn.

I can burn on these cheap CDs at x40 speed without any errors.

I read somewhere about an accelerated ageing test ...

I know these drives are all Liteon based, but I am building a system for quiet. Also I prefer in black.
Is the Sony or Memorex any quieter than the Liteon? Or would they all be the same? One turn off about the Sony is having to hold the button to get full 52x. If I flash the Sony to Liteon would it be any quieter than the Liteon? Or same for the Memorex?
Thanks, ...

Having a problem with some burners and possibly other hardware in my system.

My current system is this:

LG 8401B 1.03 (2mb, bought at 8400B, changed it to GCE-8401B 1.3)
LG 8400B 1.03 (2mb, not changed the firmware yet)
LG 8481B 1.04 (2mb, flashed it up about a week ago)

Mother Board: VIA EPIA C3 800mhz , 512mb, Syba PCI ATA/133 card

Windows 2000 SP 5

Alcohol 120% 1.4.0 (Build 114)

The problem is that ...

Ok I have a Aopen CRW 3248 (32x12x48 burner)

My system is an XP PRO machine with VIA Chipset and Intel PII.

I have the latest firmware for the bios and the burner, latest via drivers tooo...but for some reason my burner reads any cd put in as and AUDIO CD (i.e. Track 01, Track 02 ) even if its a data cd :@

I put the same cd into my other optical drive (12x ...

Hello!

I think it´s a rebadged Cyberdrive, works it with FW from Cyberdrive?