News of DVD Writers

I was looking at USB external DVD burners.......16X Dual layer.....how well do they work compared to internal?

Will I notice much of a difference in speed compared to internal drive?

How much faster is Fire wire than USB 2.0

External drives seem to be quite popular....why?

Thanks for the info guys.

Hello everyone,

I need to buy a new DVD recorder and i could realy use your help.
I have these options:

- NEC 3520A
- Toshiba SD-R5372B
- Pioneer A08

Any opinion will be appreciated.

Thanks ;)

Does those oem 1620 Pro drives from Newegg come with the B7 or G7 firmware?

Thank you.

Has anyone tested them?

I read article on web pages about them

Hi all,

I just got a Plextor 716UF. Part of it is because of the Plextools quality scans (I don't have a drive that supports the scans), part of it is to get the Plextor DAE, and part is I just wanted a fairly decent DVD burner.

Well, I've been playing around with Plextools and scanning some old discs just to get a feel for what's going on and I'm seeing weird results.

Older discs ...

Ok i have a Toshiba Satellite 1005-s157

Need to know if i can put a dvd burner in there instead of the dvd drive

the bay is designed to swap with a floppy and dvd drive

this is a 1.06GHz celeron tulatin core, 512mb

would it even be able to keep up?

hello forum, my pioneer 108 works brilliant when writing dvd's but when trying to write to cdr's I always get the above error message. It gets to the end of the disc then the buffer empties and I get the burn failed message. I have used nero (latest updates) and record now max both do the same????
I have aspi installed dma is switched on and it does it with ritek 52x discs and memorex ...

Hi all !

Was talking to a friend and he and I both have the DVR-109 Pioneer unit.

It is RPC-2 protected - 5 region re-sets and thats it.

He advised that up until a "hacked" RPC-2-Free firmware is available, that you can just re-flash with the same firmware and it will re-set the RPC-2 counter back to 5.

This sounds too good to be true - anyone know if it is correct or not ...

Which is the recommendable suitable dvd burner for deepreading, ripping, making working backups in quality also in +r/rw/dl to dvd-rom for game, movie, data ?

There isn't an allinone, I know but which is the best recommendable before I invest ?

Lite-On SOHW-1673s with Lite-On SOHD-167T dvd-rom
BenQ DW1620 pro with latest Asus dvd-rom
NEC ND-3520A with latest Asus dvd-rom
LG GSA-4163B with latest Lg dvd-rom

Finally, a decent look at LightScribe technology:

http://www.extrememhz.com/lightscribe-p1.shtml