Reccomend a DVD Burner

[SuntUrioN]

The only DVD burners I would suggest are the:

Lite-On LDW-411S
Lite-On LDW-811S
Nec 1300-A

These are top of the line DUAL DVD burners and aren't really expensive.

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All dvd burners use technology similar to SMART-BURN to avoid Buffer Under Run errors.

[hiroshi]

hm... I&#39;m not entirely sure, but i think the RAM types are suppose to be the ones which burn DVDs that will work on absolutly any DVD Player possible. Basically, you know when companies release their DVD&#39;s and they play on any DVD Player in your country? Well the RAM is like a Universal DVD. It plays on anything (which will play DVDs of course), but of course isn&#39;t limited to your country.

hm... let me see.... how many times did i just repeat myself in that paragraph? lol XP

As for the price of my DVD choice.
Grab it for £76.38 + VAT at Here.

Actually i&#39;m quite shocked at the price. It&#39;s still cheaper than the Sony one on that site, but it was only about £40 when i bought mine, which was the reason i suggested it so strongly =/

or if you manage to read this within the next 2 days. You can buy it Here for £56.50 (Current Bidding Price)(£6.50 P&amp;P).

meh.... this is weird.... i guess i was lucky with mine

Edit: It basically does a special format, so you don&#39;t need to bother screwing around with those different UDF Format types...........

But i don&#39;t trust my information enough on this.... so i would simply say to wait for someone else to say what it is, or look it up. ^^&#39;

[zzz]

LG one I bought for 160 Canadian.

[DB_Hunter]

Guys this may seem surprising to you lot since these drives havn&#39;t been mentioned but it seems that Pioneer drives are getting some good reviews too... you lot might want to check em out next time your looking for a new drive.

Also, is it worth getting a RAM drive? What is it&#39;s main purpose primarily?

[samsonlonghair]

My understaning is that DVDRAM is only for data storage. You probably wouldn&#39;t want the headaches that come along with trying to get a DVDRAM to play on a home DVD player.

Hiroshi, as far a the countries go, reigon encoding is done when you actually burn the disk. You can set any disk to burn at reigon 0 to be played on any DVD player.

[KakashiSensei]

I have conflicting reports about that, the RAM disks were just DATA disks that a re writable. But i will test that out on Monday and burn one to find out. Thanks for the info Hiroshi I appreciate that and report back then

[Krbadass]

Any dvd burner works, theres no real best one that ive seen as of yet.

[hiroshi]

Meh, yeah sorry. That&#39;s why i did the edit about the UDF type.
Besides, i already said i don&#39;t trust my information on that specific thing enough =P

[eimaj]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (zzz @ Dec 28 2003, 07:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I just ordered the LG GSA-4040B.

Write
- CD-RW: 12x, 8x, 4x
- CD-R: 24x, 16x, 8x, 4x
- DVD+RW: 2.4x
- DVD+R: 4x, 2.4x
- DVD-RW: 2x, 1x
- DVD-R: 4x, 2x
- DVD-RAM: 3x, 2x

It gets really great reviews. I hope its good. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I would say LG - 404
Cheapest price - works great for me.
Burns everything fine -- works with Nero 5.5 (latest update)

Now its just a matter of time to see how long it works.

[DB_Hunter]

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I have finally bought a DVD burner&#33; Primarily hiroshi&#39;s enthusiasim and the fact it was cheap made me buy the NEC 1300A burner. I&#39;m testing it out right now... its acting strange that the discs I&#39;m using are doing about 2.4x on a speed test, are said to be burning at 4x (the speed which I thought they were when I bought them) but are taking about 42 minutes to burn&#33;&#33;&#33; Any ideas on what is going on???

I have a P3 500MHz comp with 128MB RAM on which I am using it currently.. my new computer should arrive on tuesday.

[DDBen]

Thats what I&#39;m running. Atleast in the US its no shipping or tax in most states and costs &#036;203 at www.newegg.com

Plextor Black 8X DVD-RW/+RW Drive, Model PX-708A/SW-BL, Retail

Specifications:
Model: PX-708A/SW-B
Write Speed: 40X CD-R, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD-R, 4X DVD+RW, 2X DVD-RW
Read Speed: 40X CD-ROM/CD-R, 12X DVD-ROM
Interface: Internal IDE
Buffer: 2 MB
OS Support: Windows XP/ ME/ 2000/ 98SE
Features: Lossless linking technology, Buffer Underrun Proof technology
Remark: Retail Pack (see pictures for details)

[hiroshi]

Sorry i&#39;ve been gone for so long =P

That&#39;s pretty weird
Mine burns in like 10 - 15mins. You have to buy special DVDs which state on the back that they are compatible with 4x speed DVD Writers. Because some blank DVDs (unknown reason to me), don&#39;t burn very well at high speeds.

Also, what program are you using? If the program is caching the information onto your Harddrive instead of burning it straight to your DVD, then the two major things you need is a lot of RAM, and a lot of processing power. Because it stores some of the information you&#39;re going to burn into your RAM if you have the program set to cache before it burns.

Because DVDs are considerabally bigger than normal CDs, the information you&#39;re likely to write to the DVDs are also likely to be in bigger chunks. When the program caches information, it can&#39;t simple cache a part of a stream of data in which it&#39;s going to put onto the DVD, it caches chunks of information instead. Because the files you are burning are considerabally larger, you&#39;re going to need a lot more RAM to store those much larger chunks of information. Also, the more RAM that is taken up by cache, the slower your computer will be able send the stream to the DVD in the first place.

I would seriously consider upgrading your RAM =P
This will result in not only faster burns in a cache mode, but also a greater stability of your burns because you&#39;re using cache mode.

If you do not upgrade your RAM, you should burn On the Fly (Direct to DVD) instead, but it will result in less stability and more chance of a failed burn.

The NEC DVD Drive does have a decent cache already on the Burner, which increases your stability of on the fly burns considerabally... but...

You really need to upgrade your RAM and Processor =P

Brief:
RAM handles - Main cache, also helps with regulation of stream.
Processor handles - Main regulator for stream.

If RAM is too small:
Not enough space for a Cache of large amounts of information. Results on high dependancy on your processor to give out information at very high rates.

If Processor too slow:
Not fast enough to keep up with Burner. Results in high dependancy on cache to smooth the stream.

Conclusion:
Not really sure of the best setting. But for DVD Burns, i don&#39;t think i would use anything slower than 1GHz with 512MBs of RAM.

*ahem*... but again. What program do you use anyway? =P

Edit:
Upgrade RAM to: Increase stability and allow cache burns.
Upgrade Processor to: Increase speed of burn, but only during &#39;on the fly&#39;
Upgrade Both to: Increase speed, and stability and allow cache burns.

[DB_Hunter]

Lol thanks for all that info.

I&#39;m using Nero ver 6.

As for the computer specs you suggested, on tuesday my new base unit arrives, and when I stick in the stuff I&#39;m getting/have for it from other sources, it will have the following spec:

Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU
640MB DDR 333MHz RAM
128MB ATI Radeon 9200 series Graphics card.
40GB HDD.
80GB HDD.
48xCD-Rewriter/16xDVD Player Combo drive.
NEC 1300A DVD Burner.
No floppy drive (damn Dell ).

[DDBen]

hmm thats not much ram if you are burning DVD&#39;s I&#39;d recommend getting a bit more also all media CD&#39;s or DVD&#39;s has max speed written on them so if its a 2.4X speed DVD it won&#39;t burn at 4X correctly. However as a note Plextor DVD burner will burn 4X dvd&#39;s at 8X correctly in 8 minutes a DVD.

[DB_Hunter]

OK just to let you guys know the burner isn&#39;t at fault... I just used it in my new computer to burn Naruto Eps 1-25 and the special ( total of 4.19GB) and Nero popped the finished box at 14 minutes and 6 seconds. I used the same kind of disc too. Must have been my old computer then.

[hiroshi]

Yep. Not enough RAM and processing power on your old compie ^^&#39;

[p3psi]

finally buying a burner, just realized i could get a burner for the same price as a 120 gig hard drive i was goning to buy

NEC 1300A burner ?

3 people said this was a great burner? im about to buy it, if it blows up my computer im gonna write a letter to the mods and have them write a hateful spite-filled post to you guys and how you F*&#036;#ed up my computer so much that i couldnt even use my computer to yell at you guys.

edit:

they have like 5 diffrent 1300a verisons at newegg? whats the diff?
And i notice this one? 4x CLV DVD+R, 2.4x CLV DVD+RW, 4x CLV DVD-R, 2x CLV DVD-RW, 16x CLV CD-R, 10x CLV CD-RW
what does the clv mean, and is it better than the slightly more expensive ones?
im talking about the 105-97 dollar ones, not those 140. Unless i should get the &#036;140 dollar ones?

[hiroshi]

I looked at those 4 drives.
There isn&#39;t really much difference. Some have Software included with them, and the top one dosn&#39;t have any software as far as i can tell, but it&#39;s the OEM version instead of a retailers version. This means it&#39;s straight from the manufacturer. This is sometimes better, and i try to keep most of my stuff OEM myself, but in this case i don&#39;t know, and it&#39;s entirely up to you anyway.

Don&#39;t know what the CLV means, but i don&#39;t think it&#39;s necessary to know. It&#39;s probably just a standard thing, but perhaps other people who read this post will know.

What &#036;140 ones?