News of CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives

When I finally build my new PC I am planning to install a DVD-ROM drive in it (black). Just like to know if anybody has had any experience with NEC DVD-ROM drives and if so how do you compare them to other brands. Also in terms of quietness as well.

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=18800

Things became worst now, I don't know what's wrong...
My LiteOn can play DVD without a problem, smooth, but when I try to copy the vob files, it hangs... scan with CDSpeed, many damaged and bad sectors..

Can play but cannot copy????

Tried a scratched DVD data disc no problem, I can copy the files
Tried data CDs, no problem too

WHat's the difference between DVD-video disc and ...

I have a DVD of Debian 3.1 Linux which came on a cover of Linux Format Mag. But what I want to do is to burn this onto CD-R's. Now I dont have a DVD burner but do have a CD-R burner and a DVD-ROM. Is it possible (using Nero) to do this.

Can someone make sense of this for me. I got the correct read offset for my burner (+6) from accuraterip.com, but I don't know where to enter it. Some "manual" say put it in the read offset box, but others say that if you use another program othan EAC to write then you should use combined read/write offset. So do I put the +6 in that box? Still another said that I need to switch ...

I was just wondering what the best DVD-Rom drive for reading pressed original DVD disks with slight error problems is.

It is not copied DVDR disks i am asking about (when ever i ask this people always go on to say use better DVD-R media). It is pressed movie disks that i wish to backup and wish to have good error correction DVD-Rom drive to get past any faults if one is present (which usually ...

My trusty LG Combo drive, GCC-4320B, that I bought upon reading the review of here has started acting flaky.

One of my main reasons for purchasing this drive was the ease of resetting the region change counter. This brings me back to doe.

I am looking for a drive that has easy/no hassle region changing ability so I can play discs from Regions 1, 2 and 4.

What's a good drive that will allow me ...

I have a Toshiba DVD-Rom (SD-M1712). I am trying to set it to DVD Region 1 but I can't seem to do it. I am currently the computer administrator and I've tried a number of retail region 1 DVD's while I'm doing this (Madagascar, Fantastic 4, etc).

Does anyone know what the problem is?

Hello forum. Today I tried to update the firmware on my ASUS DVD-616A dvd drive and the windows flash tool simply locked up my pc causing me to reboot after waiting 15 mins or so. Now windows wont boot at all with this drive attached. I opened the dvd's case and noticed the main chip inside has MT1355PE wrote on it.......does this mean its a mediatek chip that can be recovered in DOS using mtkflash??? ...

Hi all,

Recently, my Pioneer dvd-106/s has stopped playing movies. When I insert a disc, the lights flash but the drive doesn't spin up, it just ejects the disc. It reads dvd games fine for some reason.

I have just reinstalled Windows XP Pro and two games, F.E.A.R. and Call of Duty 2, both on dvd. The drive was working fine until I installed these games.

Could this be related to the copy protection used ...

http://anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2610&p=11

Here you could see that it uses a DVD-drive from LG with S-ATA.

Again I wonder why the drive manufacturers don´t bring drives with S-ATa to the retail market.