best dvd burner

[Waffles_old]

well?

 

[Dav0s]

nex 3520a. no doubt. no problems and nec is best for recognising media. it had the largest compatibility. cant recommend it enough. buy it.

 

[JN]

Plextor...i'd never touch anything less

Ever since my quad speed cd-rom drive made by plextor that could read a cd even if it lumps of crap stuck to it

 

[Waffles_old]

i got a pioneer beauty... sry guys

reps for u tho cuz both helped

wait.. mods. doh!

erm....... thanks tho

 

[FragTek]

i got a pioneer beauty... sry guys

reps for u tho cuz both helped

wait.. mods. doh!

erm....... thanks tho

U can just give the reps to me... XMS owes em to me anyhow

 

[JN]

i got a pioneer beauty... sry guys

reps for u tho cuz both helped

wait.. mods. doh!

erm....... thanks tho

Yep Pioneer are very good too.

Pioneer & Plextor actually make drives for eachother...so its all good

 

[muffin]

A little late, but for anyone else...

Custom PC say this is the bomb

 

[PV5150]

All nice drives, I actually posted this elsewhere....prolly should have done it here

http://www.sysxtreme.com/showthread.php?t=146

 

[FragTek]

I use AOpen drives... They can be noisy but they work great, they're fast as fuck, and they're cheap.

 

[enVias]

All nice drives, I actually posted this elsewhere....prolly should have done it here

http://www.sysxtreme.com/showthread.php?t=146

Excellent I use Pioneer

 

[del]

im using ricoh and it is ok so far

 

[Joe]

the plexs and pioneers are both very good in terms of compat of dl media; but most drives use a nec engine the main diff is the firmware (personally id go 4 plex or nec )

 

[FragTek]

I just got to use a brand new Sony dual layer burner and it was fantastic! It was silent, super fast, and didn't have any write errors. Sony definately has a nice drive on their hands.

 

[jm7162]

plextor all the way for me... spent about £100 on a px-716a.. and i love it to bits.. by far the best burner i've ever had

 

[mimp]

If you plan on watching DVDs Pioneer drives are very quiet (when set appropriately) which is a major factor if you're as easily annoyed as me.

They can be a little picky with media but burn quality is very high once you find some discs they like.

 

[mr_fishbulb]

Can you get firmware patches for DVD burners like you can for DVD ROMs to ..ahem.. read DVDs from other regions?

 

[passy]

Just bought my second LG (GSA-4167BAL). In the past I had no problem with all the different brands of DVD I tried.

 

[PV5150]

Can you get firmware patches for DVD burners like you can for DVD ROMs to ..ahem.. read DVDs from other regions?

This is a tricky situation, it depends on your countries stance on copyright protection. Here in Australia at the moment it's legal to use software that allows you to watch region coded movies on region set drives. Also that's why they made multiregion DVD players for home cinema's, but just check anyway. I don't know of any firmware patches that alter the region code, most DVD burners default to your region code setting in Windows after 5 changes anyway. But, you can use a little program called DVD Region Free + CSS, which will prevent Windows changing the region code on you. Check out tucows for other great shareware and freeware apps.

 

[mr_fishbulb]

This is a tricky situation, it depends on your countries stance on copyright protection. Here in Australia at the moment it's legal to use software that allows you to watch region coded movies on region set drives. Also that's why they made multiregion DVD players for home cinema's, but just check anyway. I don't know of any firmware patches that alter the region code, most DVD burners default to your region code setting in Windows after 5 changes anyway. But, you can use a little program called DVD Region Free + CSS[/URL'], which will prevent Windows changing the region code on you. Check out tucows for other great shareware and freeware apps.

I know for DVD-ROMS you can get firmware to install on them that will allow them to play dvds from different regions as many times as you want and doesn't lock the drive to one particular region after X different times the region has been changed (Windows is a different matter). I know this becasue my, errr, mate has done it to his DVD-ROM.

Was just wondering if you can do that to burners too.

 

[clive r]

Plextor every time for me.

Quality product, and the 2 yr warranty is excellent.

I jammed the tray in my previous drive. Don't know if it was my fault but I emailed Plextor and had a DHL number within the hour. It was collected the same day and 48 hours later I had a brand new drive back from Belgium. That's what I call service.