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DVD Read speed

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:36 pm
by 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

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:11 pm
by 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

Re: DVD Read speed

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:42 pm
by TCAS
guggu wrote: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.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:43 pm
by hoxlund
used to own the 1640 slot loader, which was a pioneer 106s

PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:26 am
by 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=

PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:02 am
by hoxlund
its kinda weird that in over 5 years aopen still uses the same box graphics and style