News of DVD Writers

Vote for what you think is the best, all around DVD writer. By doing so, you'll hopefully help those looking to buy a new drive. Once again, I tried to chose original drive designs that are currently available or will be soon.

Feel free to leave comments and an explanation as to why you voted the way you did. Also, if there's a drive you'd like to see added to the poll, let me know. ...

Hi, i am in the market for a brand new internal dvd writer,
so i need your suggestions.
I mainly use it to back up my hard disk, burn films, and ripping dvds.I normally use cheap media, so wide compatibility with local media is needed.
What would be your suggestion?
Many thanks in advance.

Pioneer Electronics sent me a DVR-116D last week (thanks Brian!). I was gone most of the weekend, but I was able to take a quick look at it. The drive is constructed surprisingly well. Unlike some of the new drives from Taiwan and Korea, it doesn't feel like its made out of tin foil.

Pioneer DVR-116D Front.png

Pioneer DVR-116D Back.png

The top of the drive has some ...

I have two recently purchased Samsung drives - a SATA SH-S203B and an IDE SH-S202N. Both drives have the latest firmware.

I have a problem with both drives. When installed in either a VISTA Home Premium or WINXP Pro system the case IO activity LED flashes once per second. I can duplicate this problem on both Core2 Duo and P4 CPU systems with Intel chipsets. The IO case LED flashing occurs even if there are ...

Hello, I have
System:
MS Windows XP
Version 2002 SP2

PC:
Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66ghz
2GB Ram Corsair XMS 2
HDD Western Digital WD3200AAJS 320 GB (SATAII)
Motherboard Asus P5N-D (Nforce 15.17 Drivers)
2GB RAM
Vidcard MSI N9600GT

CD/DVD:
Lite On LH-20A1L (SATA)
FirmwareBL06

All working on this drive except Lightscribe function.

Lightscribe sys sw v1.14.17.1
Lightscribe template labeler v1.10.23.1

Getting a Lightscribe Drive Error (shortened below):
An error with selected LS drive has ...

I employ a historical PC built from finest DOS age hardware with 2 genuine ISA sound cards, Voodoo 1 graphics accelerator, a 550MHz AMD K6-3+ CPU and 384MB RAM. The machine runs Windows 98SE, and due to it is optimized for historical games I will not upgrade it to modern hardware.

Recently my SCSI CD burner Ricoh RW7060S died (dead laser diode?), so I bought a used Pioneer DVR-111D. I employ CeQuadrat WinOnCD 3.7 for ...

Pioneer Electronics announced two new 20x DVD writers this week. The DVR-116D (PATA) and DVR-216D (SATA) are capable of 20x DVD±R and 12x DVD±R DL writing speeds and offer support for Pioneer's new Optimal Write Speed function.

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/ ... Experience

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announced two new internal computer drives that will write up to 20x on DVD-R/+R media and deliver unprecedented write quality that exceeds the performance ...

My 3.5 yrs old Sony DRU-710A suddenly wouldn't burn any CDRs, but no problems whatsoever with burning DVRs or RW-DVRs.......how come? I used to be able to burn Fuji CDRs (MIJ) and Sony's own CDRs but now the burn would go thru/no error message but the CDRs would always be "blank" after burnt.

How long is the lifespan of a DVD writer?

Basic info:
- 3.5 yrs old Sony DRU-710A
- 97% burning DVRs and ...

I purchased an HP notebook on 31 May 2008.
OS is Vista Premium.

Today, I tried using DVD drive for first time.
Drive will not record CD-RW, but is supposed to be able to read them.

Created a CD-R and a CD-RW on another system.

No problem reading the CD-R in the DVD drive.
Using DVD-R media, was able to write on the DVD via Windows.

When I try to read the CD-RW, Roxio pops ...

Hi again
Its been another year and I still haven't completed that final set up of my pc aaaaaarrrrggg ](*,) I posted up last year asking about the dvr 212 and I for some reason I didn't buy anything I just got busy (doing ermm...nothing!)

My original Q was to decide on a couple of models and to see whether the 212 was worth waiting for. ...