News of DVD Writers

I have noticed and read a few things and wanted to hear other peoples thoughts as well. Some DVD media will change colors when the media is burned when looking at the bottom of the disc. However, an actual store bought DVD will remain silver usually and you cannot tell from looking at the bottom where it was burned.

Question: How does the quality of media compare in these to cases? Is it better to ...

Newegg has THIS burner on sale, and it says it has Quiet drive. Is this a rebadged DVR108? The bezel isn't even close.

TIA,
Mike

This was just sent to me by my Quantegy Rep:

As of Friday December 31, 2004 Quantegy has "ceased operations pending
restructuring". All 260+ employees, including myself, have been laid-off
pending further notice. Although there are some conflicting reports in the
media about whether or not Quantegy has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, at this
time this has not been confirmed.

Quantegy is the only remaining company producing professional grades of
audio mastering tape and instrumentation ...

Taken from here:

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/p ... 25,00.html

The DVR-A09XL high speed DVD burner introduced today by Pioneer enables computer users to record data, photos and video onto DVD-R, DVD-RW, +R and +RW discs with ease. It also works with dual layer discs, increasing the capacity of a disc from 4.7 to 8.5 gigabytes for even more storage space.

The DVR-A09XL offers many technologies unique to Pioneer, including Quiet Drive for ...

I've been using dvd decrypter for awhile now and never had this problem,but since yesterday when burning dvd's the "Buffer" on the left colum keeps dropping to 0% then goes back to 100% randomly throughout a burn,wich causes the Write rate to drop as well, the "Device Buffer" stays around 97 - 100% ,I made sure none of my drives are in PIO mode, could it be a bad batch of media im using? It's ...

http://www2.melcoinc.co.jp/pub/hd/dvsmd ... fwa115.exe

Test with Ritek G05 @ 8x running :p

Have just installed two CD/DVD Writers into same desktop PC.

Have Panasonic DVD Recorder connected to TV with DVD RAM format

DVD Writers:

1. LG 4163B
2. Pioneer DVR 108

Both Read /Write CD and Read Commerial DVD's. The LG 4163B will play DVD RAM disc but same disc will not play on Pioneer DVR 108 ( using Win DVD software ) although spec says it will play DVD RAM

Any thought as to where ...

My Apex AD-1110 doesn't play burned dvds that I have made on my NEC 16x dvd-/+r burner. The issue is a burned dvd that my friend makes and lets me borrow plays great on my apex and we both use the same media (sony 8x dvd-r and memorex 8x dvd-r). With this being said it appears that my player and the media couldn't be the issue. Does anyone have any idea why the dvds I ...

Hi Team,
I need some help here.I have a Nec-2510 drive. i had f/ 2.16,then 2.17 then Mad dog 2.f7 and 2.f8. I havent burn any DL dvd for a while (since original f/w version) Today i tried to burn a movie and the error message comes up "source is too large" then i flashed it back to 2.16 now its coming up the media is not compatible.I am using verbatin 8.5 DLD media. Please ...

CDRLabs kicks off the week and the new year with a review of Sony's latest double layer DVD burner, the DRU-710A. Along with support for the DVD+R DL format, the DRU-710A sports some pretty impressive specs, including 16x DVD+R and 4x DVD±RW writing speeds and a maximum DVD read speed of 16x. With the latest firmware, it can also write to DVD-R media at 12x and DVD+R DL discs at 4x. On top of that, ...