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I use the "SONY DVDRW 9" that came already installed when we got our PC (a Dell Inspiron 6000), is this any good?, is there better that I could get?, I seem to have problems copying some DVD/CD's.
Any thoughts?

Keith

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I can't afford a fuckin' Mac before you start Blast

I've already killed two DVD writers scotty, they seem to have a limited life span

I've got 3 (well I would have, wouldn't I? ), a Pioneer 104, 108 and 109. Dunno what the latest one is but anything with Pioneer in the name, ye cannae go wrong. Pretty cheap too, £45 if I mind right.

I'm gonna stick with NEC drives. They've served me well. Got a NEC ND-3500AG at the moment.

I've got a Sony DVD writer, because it was cheap enough to afford it (And it never caused me any problems until now. Not a single disc going wrong)

And a Plextor CD-writer, which is a bit older, but IMO Plextor are the Rolls-Royces of CD-writing
Sadly they're not all that cheap

I wonder: What do you do when you ruin a Mac-cd-writer, can you just plug in another, as in a PC

yes, on a Mac you can just plug another one in.

if the OS doesn't support it natively, you can use software patches to make the Apple iApps work with it. Roxio Toast will typically work with 3rd party drives even if the OS doesn't recognize it as "natively supported."

http://www.patchburn.de/download.html

the NEC 3500A as mentioned above is the
Rolls Royce of the DVD writer world

I use Liteon, they're cheap but do a spiffing job never had any problems yet........

scotty wrote:I use the "SONY DVDRW 9" that came already installed when we got our PC (a Dell Inspiron 6000), is this any good?, is there better that I could get?, I seem to have problems copying some DVD/CD's.
Any thoughts?

Keith

*Edit*

I can't afford a fuckin' Mac before you start Blast

I think that's wot we've got in our machine, which seems to do the trick most times, but it can get a bit uppity with certain makes of CD /DVD.

One time it claimed there wasn't enough space to put an hour of footage on a DVD which was typical, seeing as I'd said to some people who were round that night, "oh, I'll just run these copies off for you while you wait"

But bought some different ones and it was happy then

Mrs. Snowey wrote:

scotty wrote:I use the "SONY DVDRW 9" that came already installed when we got our PC (a Dell Inspiron 6000), is this any good?, is there better that I could get?, I seem to have problems copying some DVD/CD's.
Any thoughts?

Keith

*Edit*

I can't afford a fuckin' Mac before you start Blast

I think that's wot we've got in our machine, which seems to do the trick most times, but it can get a bit uppity with certain makes of CD /DVD.

One time it claimed there wasn't enough space to put an hour of footage on a DVD which was typical, seeing as I'd said to some people who were round that night, "oh, I'll just run these copies off for you while you wait"

But bought some different ones and it was happy then

The "Not Enough space thing" has happened to me a couple of times

The rewriter seems to working OK, I was just wondering if there was anything else/better I could install other than what came with the 'puttor?, there doesn't seem to be a function to change the speed of the copying, am I stuck with the preinstalled system?.

Think that's more of a software issue?

there are many issues with burning DVDs.
for one, 4.7 GB is really more like 4.3 GB after overhead.

sometimes you need enough free space on your hard drive for temporary files that the burning software creates - if you don't have ~5 GB free, it could be that, too.

newer drives support faster media, up to 16x single layer, and burn dual-layer which holds 2x as much data. DL media is still quite expensive compared to SL, which can be found for 23cents US a disc in 50 packs.