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Postby MonteLDS on Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:03 pm

so?

i do home video, and some data, mostly home video though.
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Postby Dartman on Fri Oct 17, 2003 6:09 pm

Mostly movies and some data backup. It holds more then my 4/8 gig dat tape I have and they seem to be less picky too and at least as fast if not faster.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:37 pm

slicing potatoes, it also makes julian fries :D
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Postby BurninMan921 on Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:30 pm

Data backups, and some movies...
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Postby aviationwiz on Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:46 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:slicing potatoes, it also makes julian fries :D


I told you Lite-On Drives were worthless :wink: haha.
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Postby dhc014 on Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:15 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:slicing potatoes, it also makes julian fries :D


I would like to order a small seasonecd curlies please
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Postby Stoner on Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:02 pm

Backup por... I mean home videos.
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Postby Phoenix '97 on Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:20 pm

Almost exclusively for data. You name it, I have it stored on DVD-R(W). :)
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Postby BGPGuy on Sat Oct 18, 2003 12:38 am

High Definition movie archiving. At 10GB/hr., I am dying for dual layer burners.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Sat Oct 18, 2003 12:49 am

aviationwiz wrote:
dolphinius_rex wrote:slicing potatoes, it also makes julian fries :D


I told you Lite-On Drives were worthless :wink: haha.


I KNEWthat was coming!

Actually, the LiteON DVD Burner is a very good CD burner. It burns some of my really REALLY crappy CMC media that nothing else can burn properly above 24x, at the full 40x, and still have it wind up with a C1 average of approx 1.5!! :D I've recently become a lot happier with this drive. All of a sudden it's very useful for me! (now it's a DVD Tester, DVD player, High quality CD burner, and (RARELY) a DVD Burner)
Punch Cards -> Paper Tape -> Tape Drive -> 8" Floppy Diskette -> 5 1/4" Floppy Diskette -> 3 1/2" "Flippy" Diskette -> CD-R -> DVD±R -> BD-R

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Postby aviationwiz on Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:16 am

dolphinius_rex wrote:
aviationwiz wrote:
dolphinius_rex wrote:slicing potatoes, it also makes julian fries :D


I told you Lite-On Drives were worthless :wink: haha.


I KNEWthat was coming!


That is why you posted it, isn't it. LOL.

Could I have a medium-well hamburger please?
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:09 am

Actually, I posted it because I was reading CDRlabs.com at work, and I saw the question, and was saying it to myself out loud, and one of the other people who works with me replied back "I use it for slicing potatoes!" and it just sort of stuck... I added the part about Julian fries :wink:

I'm still waiting for someone to say "cupholder" though! :wink: :D
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Postby wicked1 on Sat Oct 18, 2003 4:11 am

I burn mostly XBOX disks and data backups.
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Postby Kennyshin on Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:37 am

HDTV these days.
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Postby OC-Freak on Sun Oct 19, 2003 11:50 am

You probably won't believe it but I've yet to write a disc that contains anything for storage.

Having 3 DVD-Writers and written over 50 DVD discs....but all for testing purposes so far. Write ---> test ---> trash bin. Yup, wasting 50 discs do probably seem hard for most of you though......I will probably wast 50 more or so before christmas if I know myself correct. Wasted about 500 CD-R discs this year as well...only for testing purposes :)

I am thinking about burning my MP3 collection onto 2 DVD+R discs but I've not done it so far. I have a few movies that I may write onto DVD-discs...but I've still space on my harddrives for them so no hurry.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Sun Oct 19, 2003 7:46 pm

OC-Freak wrote:You probably won't believe it but I've yet to write a disc that contains anything for storage.

Having 3 DVD-Writers and written over 50 DVD discs....but all for testing purposes so far. Write ---> test ---> trash bin. Yup, wasting 50 discs do probably seem hard for most of you though......I will probably wast 50 more or so before christmas if I know myself correct. Wasted about 500 CD-R discs this year as well...only for testing purposes :)

I am thinking about burning my MP3 collection onto 2 DVD+R discs but I've not done it so far. I have a few movies that I may write onto DVD-discs...but I've still space on my harddrives for them so no hurry.


I know the feeling! I've "Wasted" a number of DVD discs already myself, and countless CD-Rs!
Punch Cards -> Paper Tape -> Tape Drive -> 8" Floppy Diskette -> 5 1/4" Floppy Diskette -> 3 1/2" "Flippy" Diskette -> CD-R -> DVD±R -> BD-R

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Postby Dartman on Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:11 pm

I do that a lot too, testing for quality and speed. I have bunches of Nero audio test cd's and now I'm getting a bunch of extra movies trying to find minus media that will work at 4x :evil: DVD's are a bit more spendy to play with like that however so I try to do something I can use multiple copys of.
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Postby Jon_J on Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:12 pm

Mostly Data. I haven't tried burning a movie yet, but have some experiance with movies, before DVD burners were available
I converted to SVCD and used CDRW's

I have a collection of 11,670 song archives in CD+G karaoke format.
I transferred my 61 CDRs to 9 DVDs

(Maybe in the future, they all, (song archives), would fit on 1 or 2 Blu-Rays)

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old 2X Sony burner, still works good (came with $100 computer)
BTW, I tried my new Plex 708 for CD+G, and it burns them perfectly also.
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Postby treemana on Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:09 am

I mainly use it for archiving captured video. It has pretty much replaced my VCR for video recording.

I also plan to do some data backup, but haven't gotten around to it yet!
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Postby Spazmogen on Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:06 am

Stoner wrote:Backup por... I mean home videos.


:o :o :o :o

I do mainly home movie back ups and some data as well.
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Postby Narbo on Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:32 am

The 708a is my first DVD burner, right now I use it for PS2 games and movies, will probably start doing some xbox games for my co-workers soon. I am also planning to back up my 40+GB mp3 collection. (it sure would suck if the drive they are one died!)
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Postby jidoo on Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:07 am

Data Backup. Burned one DVD disk. Installed the drive on Saturday. Have to learn a little better how to use Sonic software.
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Postby Robotnik on Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:37 pm

I've been using mine to burn a lot of data HD-Burn CD-Rs lately. 1400MB on an ordinary CD-R. Let's see your DVD burners do that! :wink:
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Postby Kennyshin on Mon Oct 20, 2003 5:18 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:
OC-Freak wrote:You probably won't believe it but I've yet to write a disc that contains anything for storage.

Having 3 DVD-Writers and written over 50 DVD discs....but all for testing purposes so far. Write ---> test ---> trash bin. Yup, wasting 50 discs do probably seem hard for most of you though......I will probably wast 50 more or so before christmas if I know myself correct. Wasted about 500 CD-R discs this year as well...only for testing purposes :)

I am thinking about burning my MP3 collection onto 2 DVD+R discs but I've not done it so far. I have a few movies that I may write onto DVD-discs...but I've still space on my harddrives for them so no hurry.


I know the feeling! I've "Wasted" a number of DVD discs already myself, and countless CD-Rs!


Me, thousands. I could have bought a small car with that money nearly wasted.
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