NEC or Lite-ON or?

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PLEXTOR is the only ANY DRIVE to ever go with... CD ROM, DVD, DVDR, CDRW you name it... I never buy anything else...

I own currently the PX-716A and it is by far the best DVD Recorder out there for many reasons... I love putting a Gig of information on a regular 700MB CDR... With the right software nothing comes close to Plextor drives... My opinion...

I have a NEC ND-3520A drive.

:beer:

me, too...

simply the best

I got BENQ DW 1620, 40xcd/16xdvd/4xDL with kickass error correction.
Never had problems here with it.
benq is also frequently updating the firmware too.

....im not using this drive often, once a month, what should i burrrrn?
spread illegeal stuff or what? this drive is enough for near future
price 50 EUR - effective low cost drive.

burning dvds with higher speeds can produce errors with cheap media...

indeed
the what I like most about the Plextor is its ability to watch the quality of burning during the burn process and therefor adjust the speed dynamically
I have heard ppl. talking about high speed problems and shit
since the first day I am now burning @ 12xSpeed on 8x PLATINUM media with 100% success rate (~100 DVDs)
and firmewareupdate could not be easier ... 1 .exe 2 clicks 1 restart and you are done

for 10 years only Plextor, more cash out, more of everything good to you

I was once I die-hard Plextor fan myself. In fact, I still have a 12X SCSI Plextor burner that's about 7 or 8 years old that still works flawlessly and is probably THE best CD-audio ripping drive ever made (the 12/20 Plex). But, it's been retired to my server. I now am a Pioneer DVR-108 fan (yeah, I know the 109 is the current model).

I don't know if the 109 does this or not but the 108 has a "feature" that is rather unique. There's a code that all burners (commercial included) embed on DVDs that identifies them as being either commercially manufactured (legal copies) or burned by a home unit (not-so-legal backups). In the case of the Pioneer 108, it burns all zeroes into that field, which identifies it as a commerical DVD. I guess this is Pioneer's way of thrumbing their noses at the industry. Regardless, what this means is that the DVDs burned by a Pioneer 108 are playable in virtually any DVD player. I have yet to find a player that would NOT play one and that includes about 15 different home and computer DVD drives (so far).

Reliability with my Pioneer is unmatched. I've burned well over 300 DVDs and have yet to make a coaster. I just upgraded my 2 son's computers to DVR-109s and gave them "lessons" in making back-up copies of commercial DVDs. Using the Verbatum 16X media, I burned a full DVD in under 6 minutes. Impressed the hell out of me.

I remember back in the old days when I purchased my first CD burner (a Philips) and having to wait 1 HOUR for a 1X burn to complete, not knowing if the burn would be successfull or not. That was a while ago but not THAT long ago. I think that no matter who's burner you choose (Plextor, Pioneer, Lite-On, etc.), as long as it's 16X rated and does a good job of burning CDs and DVDs, you just can't go wrong.

Later.