DVD Writer drive

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » October 19th, 2005, 13:13

I'm planning to buy a DVD Writer drive at some point in the near future, and was currently thinking of this one.

Firstly, does anyone have any other recommendations for an internal drive? Being a tart it needs to be black I'm afraid. Also it needs to be cheap.

Secondly, can all DVD writer drives burn CDs too, or only some of them?

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » October 19th, 2005, 13:54

NEC 3540

The only way to go

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=89190

It's the daddy.

Edit:
Read Speed - 16x (DVD), 48x (CD)
Write Speed - 48x (CD), 16x (DVD+R), 16x (DVD-R), 8x (DVD+R DL)
ReWrite Speed - 32x (CD-RW), 8x (DVD+RW), 6x (DVD-RW)

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 19th, 2005, 14:33

mrbobbins wrote:NEC 3540

The only way to go

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=89190

It's the daddy.

I concur, i have the previous versioon (3520A) and it kicks arse.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » October 19th, 2005, 14:52

Mr Bobbins speaketh the truth!

Very good price too

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » October 19th, 2005, 15:53

Mmm.. i got myself a DVD-writer about.. 6 or so months ago at a fairly good price of £40. Had no problems burning CDs.. but have found I've burnt less than 5DVD's in total.. maybe if I got more t'interweb bandwidth I could burn some more "stuff"..

Post by **deject** » October 19th, 2005, 16:05

I second the NEC drives. For the price, there's no point in getting anything else.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » October 19th, 2005, 16:06

Internet DVD rental subsription + Torrent's running all day + editing films = Burn baby burn!!!

Incidentally Adobe Encore is a very good program for authoring your own DVD's, importing a photoshop file as a menu is brilliant!.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » October 19th, 2005, 16:26

http://www.pcformat.co.uk/reviews/defau ... tionid=708

look

proof of all our knowledges!

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » October 19th, 2005, 16:35

Oooh, I have the 35520A too. It's very good indeed. Although I may only have it because Berk recommended it, I can't remember.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 19th, 2005, 17:53

Berk is probably right, he is good like that.

also, the dvd rental + ripping thing is good.

www.blockbuster.co.uk have a 2 week free trial

cashy · Post by **cashy** » October 19th, 2005, 18:16

might have to get one of those, my old one... fell

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » October 20th, 2005, 15:23

Cheers guys. NEC 3540 has been ordered and I should be merrily burning away by tuesday. Picked up off the floor Black and White 2 which will be the first game I intend to try burning. And since its in fashion today, F.E.A.R. as well.

Post by **FatherJack** » October 24th, 2005, 17:20

That Dual Layer Sony I bought a while back for 30 notes has been great as well, particularly at viewing all the DVDs I've been renting from blockbuster online.