DVD Read speed

[guggu]

Hi I had a lite-on 167T and unlocked the speed restriction so it can read at max speed. When Burning to my pioneer at 8x it took approx 7 1/2 to 8 min. But my reader has now died. I am wanting to get a LG GDR8163B. Are these any good ?
Is there a lock on the speed read ?

All help is greatly appriciated.
Kindest Regards

[hoxlund]

join the club of broken un-locked dvd-rom drives, ive gone through 3 drives that were unlocked on the speed and they all died in months

so now i use my NEC 3520 for reading dvds

[TCAS]

Hi I had a lite-on 167T and unlocked the speed restriction so it can read at max speed. When Burning to my pioneer at 8x it took approx 7 1/2 to 8 min. But my reader has now died. I am wanting to get a LG GDR8163B. Are these any good ?
Is there a lock on the speed read ?

All help is greatly appriciated.
Kindest Regards

Go with AOpen DVD-ROM 1648, I havn't experiece it myself but many people in the net are saying is very ripper device.

[hoxlund]

used to own the 1640 slot loader, which was a pioneer 106s

[DVD_ADDICT]

They have the Aopen 1648 available from www.compuplus.com. I'll have to be purchasing a new dvdrom since my Toshiba 1712 has died.

http://www.compuplus.com/i/CDDVD/DVD-Re ... %20&%20CD=

[hoxlund]

its kinda weird that in over 5 years aopen still uses the same box graphics and style