News of DVD Writers

CDRLabs kicks off the week and the new year with a review of Sony's latest double layer DVD burner, the DRU-710A. Along with support for the DVD+R DL format, the DRU-710A sports some pretty impressive specs, including 16x DVD+R and 4x DVD±RW writing speeds and a maximum DVD read speed of 16x. With the latest firmware, it can also write to DVD-R media at 12x and DVD+R DL discs at 4x. On top of that, ...

I just got this burner and have been learning a lot about it over the past couple days. I purchased 16x ridata media from newegg, this media will only write at 4x and after writing it the drive was unable to read it. I found out that other people have had the same problem with the same drive. So I did more research and found a list on cdrinfo about what media works with the ...

Bought one and haven't recieved it yet. Since it has no audio cable output, is there any software in the bundle that will permit listening to audio CDs anyway? Does anyone make software to do this?

Thanks,
P

What did i do to get this and how can i prevent it??
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Processor info: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz x 2 (3198MHz)
Memory Available to Windows: 1,047,784 KB
Memory Buffer size: 128 MB
Image file loading: F:\movie.iso
DVD Source Info: Session: 1, Track: 1, Length: 4.19 GB / 488:14:71
G: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4082B(1:0): Recording Method/Speed
Recording - DVD DAO - 8.0X (11040 KB/Sec)
Image file loading failed!
Error message: Data error (cyclic redundancy ...

I have the same problem with my 9 month old LG GSA-4081B DVD drive. It was working great until about a week ago. Now it only reads and writes CDs.
I am currently running on firmware A104. I have the latest IDE drivers on my nVidia n-Force2 motherboard and the drive is running on Ultra DMA2.
I have the latest registered version of Nero 6 and Power DVD installed.
The drive just does not see ...

I did a little test after I ran into some problems with ritek media. Found some interesting things. Maybe my drive just likes the memorex stuff? Bad batch of ritek stuff? What do you think?

http://scottjal.ath.cx/ebay/DVDr%20review/Media.htm
lots of pictures and I am serving this at home so please be patient.

Hi. I replaced my internal TDK CD burner with a Mad Dog Dual Layer 8x +/-R and I have problems. With the TDK, if I placed a blank CD in the drive, Windows used to ask me how I wanted to burn it. I don't get any such popup with the DVD burner. However, it does play audio CDs and DVDs. It came with a Nero which I installed. Nero only lists my hardrive as ...

I see newegg has the NEC 3520A OEM beige for $70 and the black w/SW for $74. I saw the review of the 3500A and saw that it had ulead moviefactory.
Anybody know:
1) if the 3520A comes with ulead moviefactory?
2) if this is included with the OEM version?
3) where I can get the retail version?

Is it too new to get this info yet?

Will Rickards

I've been looking around at Dual Layer drives and it seems none of them support Mt. Rainer. Not that it's a big deal at this point, but it's supposed to be supported in Longhorn next year right?

ive also been lookin for any kind of firmware or mod that might be available to turn this drive into a 12x or faster. im prolly reachin but any info mucho appreciated.
thanx