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 Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:46 pm |
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Well i did use Search tab 1st 
I want to by a nice DVD-Writer DL which can write about anything with less glitchs & great performance!! I Own a stupid BenQ drive & I just feel like throwing it away!! I cannot burn certain DVDs or read.. Forget DVD-R multisession...
Please suggest me.... I mean really confused more than that Scared, I don't wana get stuck to benQ like product.
HowZ SONY DVD-Writer ?? Anything better ??
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:48 pm |
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I'll think you'll find a lot of people use the Pioneer drives. You can get the 110 for around
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:12 pm |
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Benq DW 1640 is a good writer, other suggestions are the NEC 3540, or the pioneer 110, other one's to consider are the liteon and sony drives, depends on what you want out of your drive, rpc1, bitsetting etc
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:13 pm |
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JBLsource wrote: Well i did use Search tab 1st I want to by a nice DVD-Writer DL which can write about anything with less glitchs & great performance!! I Own a stupid BenQ drive & I just feel like throwing it away!! I cannot burn certain DVDs or read.. Forget DVD-R multisession... Please suggest me.... I mean really confused more than that Scared, I don't wana get stuck to benQ like product. HowZ SONY DVD-Writer ?? Anything better ?? Have you the right firmware?
I have the Pioneer 110D
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:27 pm |
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Wow this forum is so fast!!
I have kinda narrowed on SONY.
Does SONY writer have any limitations or some glitch??
Just before that howZ LG or Samsung!!
Oh ya I ll just find out about Pioneer
I just wana make sure I do the write thing!!
What is it about Light Scrub ?? Are th drives too costly & who all provide them??
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:27 pm |
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IMO, Lightscribe is too costly and too slow compared to Labelflash.
Labelflash will come with new NEC models, not available yet...
Wit good media you can achieve almost acceptable and good results with actual drives from the few big players on the market:
BENQ, LG, LITEON, NEC, PIONEER, PLEXTOR (partly Benq), (SONY >>> Liteon/BENQ), SAMSUNG/TOSHIBA.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:56 am |
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Quote: LG
They are good reliable drives, two to consider are the 4163 and 4167
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:06 am |
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A lot of magazines are/were recommending Plextor drives. However, I was never able to locate one in a store (not the web) locally (Canada).
Ended up getting an LG 4163B (GSA-4163B) retail unit. Does most DVD formats. Also, The Dangerous Brothers do have a RPC1 version of the firmware.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:24 am |
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yleclerc wrote: A lot of magazines are/were recommending Plextor drives. However, I was never able to locate one in a store (not the web) locally (Canada).
Ended up getting an LG 4163B (GSA-4163B) retail unit. Does most DVD formats. Also, The Dangerous Brothers do have a RPC1 version of the firmware.
also rpc1 for the 4167 and not forgetting the facility of altering media burning speeds
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:28 am |
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Never did find a 4167 drive in Canada at the time I was looking for my DVD burner.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:25 am |
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Hehehe so which one is better LG or Sony 
Out here Sony is more expensive than all. I don't knw if Pioneer is available here.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:48 am |
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JBLsource wrote: Hehehe so which one is better LG or Sony Out here Sony is more expensive than all. I don't knw if Pioneer is available here. the sony is a good burner, rpc1 depends on which model you get, the sony 810 has no rpc1 as yet, the LG is a nice burner, only downside is the lack of 12x option on dvd-r media
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:50 am |
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Aren't the Sony drives re-packaged OEM versions of BenQ drives?
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LG DVD-RAM GSA-4163B(IDE 0 - s RPC1ed)
LG DVD-Rom (IDE 1)
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:13 pm |
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yleclerc wrote: Aren't the Sony drives re-packaged OEM versions of BenQ drives?
The new Sony 810 is an oem of Benq DW 1640, but without a firmware release you cannot get an rpc1 firmware
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:11 pm |
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PumaUK wrote: The new Sony 810 is an oem of Benq DW 1640, but without a firmware release you cannot get an rpc1 firmware
JBLsource has had a bad experience with BenQ drives. Not sure if he has the equalvant model to the Sony drive. I would go with the LG models.
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LG DVD-RAM GSA-4163B(IDE 0 - s RPC1ed)
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:35 pm |
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Sony burners are OEM of BenQ ??
Now that has caught my eyes!! 
HowZ the build qualiy just that it don't matter but still!!
Here it diff to get some good media, & i have to relay upon what i get!! So thats Y i have to carefully select a drive which burns all, even the lamest media...
I don't care much about region free .... I have additional DVD-rom with region free...
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:48 pm |
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JBLsource wrote: Sony burners are OEM of BenQ ?? Now that has caught my eyes!! HowZ the build qualiy just that it don't matter but still!! Here it diff to get some good media, & i have to relay upon what i get!! So thats Y i have to carefully select a drive which burns all, even the lamest media... I don't care much about region free .... I have additional DVD-rom with region free... the 810 and its external version are the only oem benq drives, they are not to bad on performance, found the burns very good, no rpc1 etc at the moment is the only downside, but you can crossflash the drive to a 1640 benq and again these
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:48 pm |
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Today I received my LG 4167B. In my opinion a good writer, exspecially for DVD-RAM. Also rpc1 firmware are available...
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:41 pm |
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Kintac wrote: Today I received my LG 4167B. In my opinion a good writer, exspecially for DVD-RAM. Also rpc1 firmware are available...
i use this writer too, been reliable and good burns
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:30 pm |
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I always wanted to knw wat exatly is DVD-RAM ??
Is it just simple DVDs or somthing g8!!
Does SONY support all that ??
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JBLsource wrote: I always wanted to knw wat exatly is DVD-RAM ??
Is it that hard to use GOOGLE??
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:49 pm |
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Wow finally got Sony DRU-810A !!
Its good, V quite tray 
I was just goin tru the compatible chart and dam it don't support DVD-RAM!!
Thats the only disadvantage, rest its kool. But it is also the most expensive BRAND in the market. LG was way down. I had in mind its LG or SONY!!
ThanX guys U own me.....
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:50 pm |
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JBLsource wrote: Wow finally got Sony DRU-810A !! Its good, V quite tray I was just goin tru the compatible chart and dam it don't support DVD-RAM!! Thats the only disadvantage, rest its kool. But it is also the most expensive BRAND in the market. LG was way down. I had in mind its LG or SONY!! ThanX guys U own me..... the 810 is a nice drive, the LG drive supports dvdram however
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:58 pm |
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Well yes i seached Google but not able get this right!!
Is DVD-RAM better than DVD+/- R ?? Is it the past or the future.....??
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:30 pm |
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JBLsource wrote: Well yes i seached Google but not able get this right!!
Is DVD-RAM better than DVD+/- R ?? Is it the past or the future.....??
debatable what it is, obviously most dvd players don't play the dvd ram discs, for now the DVD+/-R is the better
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