Anyone know anything about Nu-Tech drives?

by **Ian** on Thu Nov 06, 2003 8:01 pm

You're right. It's only 4x. I got it confused with another drive I'm reviewing.

by **Vanderlow** on Thu Nov 06, 2003 8:04 pm

You can check this thread out obout Nu tech. Personally I would use a Lite-on CD-RW to do games..just to save wear and tear on the DVD burner.

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=186010

by **zebraX** on Thu Nov 06, 2003 8:38 pm

Hrmmmm. 4X rip speed has made me somewhat sour.

Is there potential for this 4X rip speed cap to be circumvented....or is this the hardware's PHYSICAL limitation? Ie, they havent capped it on purpose?

by **Vanderlow** on Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:15 pm

the above thread I posted the guy said this:

I also ripped several dvds with the drive
Daul layer pressed had a maximum read rate of 2.8x and average read rate of 2.3x
Single layered pressed and single layered burnt had a maximum read rate of 12.8x and average read rate of 8.7x.

Anydvd has some kind of option for o/c read speed I think.

by **Ian** on Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:27 pm

The drive has a maximum read speed of 4x with both dual and single layer discs. I doubt he's reading videos at 12x.

by **zebraX** on Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:39 pm

Mmmmk...understood....but my question remains unanswered....

Is this 4X ripping:

a) Firmware enforced
b) A physical limitation of the chipset/laserblock

....I need technical detail. Phillips/QSI are good with things like this but I am quite sure they will not give THIS much away.

Might have to talk to some of the ladz over @ firmware-flash.com ?

by **Ian** on Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:03 pm

Well.. the drive can read recordable DVD's at 8x.. so I'm guessing its something in the firmware.

by **zebraX** on Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:50 pm

Thankyou Ian. This is the information I require.

I am submitting a request for firmware modification now.......

by **Ian** on Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:18 am

Let me know what you find out.

by **jagercola** on Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:14 am

I'm ripping with an old Light-on 163 and it rips around 7-8x on dual layered. My 8x burner should be here from Zipzoomfly Monday, so I'll let the burning commence. I got 2 packs of DVD+R's from Office Depot (that verbatim special) but I can't tell what type of media it is on my old light on yet.

by **Murse** on Wed Nov 12, 2003 11:15 am

I was just looking over the Nu Tech site and noticed this software compatibility list:

http://www.nu-global.com/1_english/2_new/01_01_news.php?nID=0&pID=32

The interesting this is that near the bottom, they list the DDW-082. Based on the read/write specs listed, it is a dual format DVD burner. No product details listed on the site, however.

by **kirpen** on Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:16 pm

http://www.alcohol-soft.com/devsupp/dev ... &B1=submit
It shows that this a dual format drive. BTW the 081 is back at 139 at zipzoomfly

by **Vanderlow** on Sun Nov 16, 2003 2:28 pm

Whats interesting is when I went to General News and clicked on Dual Layer DVD+r 9 well after it talks about this breakthrough it has at the bottom:

nu DVD+RW drive will bundle and coming soon.....

http://www.nu-global.com/1_english/2_ne ... D=0&pID=25

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