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E3 works 200pk cdr's $49.99 - $17 instant - $30 mir = $2.99 (LeadData)

Fellows Perfect Clean Cloth $5.99 - $2.99 instant - $3 = Free

56x Maddog cd-rom drive $49.99 - $19.99 instant - $30.00 mir = Free (beware of mir fulfillment from MadDog)

e3Works vinyl cd-r's 10pk buy one get one free $4.99

Memorex 100pk cd-r's 39.99 - $20.00 instant = $19.99

MicroAdvantage 52x24x25 $59.99 - $10 instant - $30mir = $19.99

K-Byte 256mdddr $89.99 - $50 instant - $20mir - $20mir = Free

http://www.officemax.com/max/solutions/product/prePrintSelect.jsp?bvc=yes

A recomendation for your own good, stay away from that Mad Dog.

aviationwiz wrote:A recomendation for your own good, stay away from that Mad Dog.

Seconded, at least in terms of rebate fulfillment. They have an awful reputation for refusing to honor valid rebates.

cfitz

Can't speak for the MadDog MIR, but (as stated in a previous thread), Target has the 100-pack of Memorex 48x CD-R's for $19.99...no rebate...which I have now...for no reason...I'm just a sucker for a good deal on good discs...

Who made your Memorex discs?

LiteOnGuy, the Memorex discs are "Made In Taiwan". Haven't opened 'em yet...won't for awhile (got 2 50 packs open, and burn less than 2 discs/week).

Going upgrade my system soon, and add a Plextor Premium drive...then I'll burn a TON of CD's (got 300+ DVD's to convert to DivX...thats what the CD-R's are for). With GigaRec, the CD-R's work out a bit cheaper than DVD+R's...

I'm guessing the Memorex discs are CMC's...last batch of "Made In Taiwan" Memorex's I had were CMC...again, sorry about the late reply...

BurninMan921 wrote:Going upgrade my system soon, and add a Plextor Premium drive...then I'll burn a TON of CD's (got 300+ DVD's to convert to DivX...thats what the CD-R's are for). With GigaRec, the CD-R's work out a bit cheaper than DVD+R's...

does the saving justify the higher price of the Plextor Premium ?

the Optorite DVD burner, apart from burning DVDs, also has HD-Burn which is kind of like GigaRec.

Considering my only burner right now is a PX-504A (which only burns CD-R's at 16x), then, yeah. I doubt it'd be a faster reader than my Lite-On 166S, but it'll be nice to have. It's only $110, anyway. I about paid that for the Lite-On 48125W when it came out.

Besides, I've already got 450+ CD-R's, and will need 300+ of 'em for the movie backups...

(For those who are curious: I'm building a PC w/2x200GB hard drives and hooking it to the TV to use as a movie/music jukebox. I'll be upgrading my main PC to a 3.0C P4 to help make DivX's out of all the DVD's I've got faster)...

Edit: Thanks for the tip about the Optorite burner, too. I was planning on a second DVD burner dual-format support. 24x w/HD burn is better than 4x GigaRec. Hmm...maybe I will just get this instead, especially since there's not to big of a difference time-wise between 24x and 52x...

Question: Will HD-BURN work under Nero 5.5x/6.x? I'd rather not use B-Recorder (name says it all)...

If it can, I'm ordering this drive right now! $90 more than the 52x Plextor, 24x vs. 4x burning, 1.4GB vs <1GB, DVD+/-RW vs. just CD-R/RW.

for more info about tha Optorite DD0203 DVD burner, read in this topic:
Just got my Optorite DD0203 from accupc.com
apparently Nero does support the HD-Burn feature.

i'm wondering about the cross-compatibility of HD-burn and GigaRec...
if you do get both the Plex Premium and Optorite DD0203 you could test it for us...

dodecahedron wrote:if you do get both the Plex Premium and Optorite DD0203 you could test it for us...

Probably just one-or-the-other; and since Nero supports HD-BURN...It'll be the Optorite.

As for cross compatibility, as Ian said, GigaRec pretty much only works in the Plex when it's set to it's max. level. Don't know about HD-BURN.

Guess I'll be ordering the Optorite burner soon!