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[Brofist]

I always see topics popping up on which DVD burner to buy. I found a nice article listing the pros and cons of all the major 16x burners on the market, figuired it might help a few people out.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2260

 

[Blackcherry]

I'm sure waiting for christmas special then 16x dvd burner is mine!!!!

 

[Brofist]

If I were you I'd check Newegg once in a while. They do some pretty good one day sales. The NEC 3500 is already at $70 regular price for an OEM.

 

[Diablos]

You'd have to be a fool if you got another drive over the DVR-108. Pioneer is clearly making the best drive on the market right now. Ignore the bitsetting crap they disqualify it for at the end of the review. People are having problems with the new NEC drive, and I wouldn't trust LG.

 

[bionic77]

You'd have to be a fool if you got another drive over the DVR-108. Pioneer is clearly making the best drive on the market right now. Ignore the bitsetting crap they disqualify it for at the end of the review. People are having problems with the new NEC drive, and I wouldn't trust LG.

IAWTP

 

[Diablos]

They're getting all pissy about realtime write speeds... can't blame Pioneer for assuring you the most reliable burn possible. As for this bitsetting crap, listen, Pioneer and NEC basically have the best writing strategies out there. If your DVD player or DVD ROM drive can't properly read the discs, or simply cannot read them at all, guess what? Your player/drive sucks, get another one. They also complain about the DVR-108's slow CD-R writing speed. Its around 24x whereas the NEC is 32x. Big deal. They will both finish under 5 minutes. Besides, CD-R's written at speeds higher than 24x-32x tend to develop problems later on.

Also keep in mind that the DVR-108 seems to have the least amount of PI/PO errors on the discs it made, all but one were next to 0. This is a good thing. Minimal PI/PO errors ensure long disc life. The one that wasn't low was more than likely unreliable crappy media to begin with.

 

[Pochacco]

My LG burner has treated me well.
No coasters yet.

 

[Diablos]

I still wouldn't pass up a Pioneer or NEC, but that's just me. I'd agree that LG is better than say, Lite-On or Sony. Can't believe I recently thought Lite-On drives rocked. They suck.

Heh, Optorite drives are pretty sweet even if they don't make reliable discs - reason being is because it has a special chipset that allows you to burn 1.2 gigs to a 700MB CD-R.

Anyway, I am not getting another burner until DL speed gets to 12 or 16x. I'm sure it'll be a Pioneer.

 

[Brofist]

The Pioneer 108 is better if faster read speeds are all you care about, it gets beat in almost every write category by the NEC 3500

Here is a good topic on a board about it (also have links to reviews on both burners)

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?p=129268
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=28262

 

[Diablos]

Oh yes, that's another thing I forgot to mention. NEC drives have AWFUL reading capability. I tried to back up my copy of a Bond movie, it only had like two or three scratches on the back. Even after cleaning the disc, my ND-2500A still reported CRC errors and could not read the disc after that point. I throw it in my lite-on and the disc is read just fine and the files are extracted rather quickly. Even if that forum does report that the NEC drive is better than the Pioneer, I'd gladly accept it for better reading capability. Pioneer still has a killer writing strategy.

Lots of other people on the cdfreaks and similar forums are saying their NEC drive does not burn as reliable as they thought it would, and that the Pioneer is working much better for them. ::shrug::

 

[Blackcherry]

If I were you I'd check Newegg once in a while. They do some pretty good one day sales. The NEC 3500 is already at $70 regular price for an OEM.

I don't have a credit card That why im an amateur of holiday special

 

[Brofist]

True, but I use one of these for CD/DVD reading and CD burning anyway. It's way better at both of those functions than any DVD burner on the market. My DVD burner literally gets used for nothing other than burning DVDs.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-106-937&depa=1

 

[Brofist]

I don't have a credit card That why im an amateur of holiday special

Haha, gotcha. Yeah, I'm sure you find some nice deals this holiday season..good luck

 

[PS2 KID]

I'm still waiting for the Plextor PX-716A to get reviewed but only Best Buy has them for now. Ricoh is getting the heck out of the optical drive business.