(Dead) Pacific Digital, Mad Dog, Microadvantage or Khypermedia 8x DVD Burner for "$19.99" AR & AC at Officmax

[superHARD]

Anyone know what store's have the Mad Dog drive? Any chance I could call them and have them ship to me?

Locally the only drive I can find is the 8x+ only burner.

 

[whoboo]

sucks i went in to check if they had any NECs and they are all sold out.

 

[spinn]

I just picked up the last Mad Dog drive in Milpitas, CA. It is a black NEC 2500A.

 

[THRILLHOv]

ditto on the black mad dog NEC at north haven CT OM
(oh but they had more of em, and they had the PD (but the SN started with U) and they had the Khypermedia didnt look to see if they have microadvantage)

i love CT, people are just tech deal dim, and we have stock of the deals for days after other states are wiped out

 

[jrenna]

The OfficeMax in Poughkeepsie, NY had some in stock. A friend of mine got one for me and himself. Now I have to return my Pacific Digital. Glad I didn't open it.

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: THRILLHOv
ditto on the black mad dog NEC at north haven CT OM
(oh but they had more of em, and they had the PD (but the SN started with U) and they had the Khypermedia didnt look to see if they have microadvantage)

i love CT, people are just tech deal dim, and we have stock of the deals for days after other states are wiped out

I just called the North Haven store and they grabed one of the mad dog +/- drives and they rang it up as $129.99

how did you get it cheaper?

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: jrenna
The OfficeMax in Poughkeepsie, NY had some in stock. A friend of mine got one for me and himself. Now I have to return my Pacific Digital. Glad I didn't open it.

exactly what did they have instock? The Mad dog's or the PD's, or what?

 

[MysticMan1]

(Update) Fry's (in Wed. L.A. Times) has the Pacific Digital 8x DVD±R/RW drive for $49.99 (No! rebate) ends Thu. 10--28, take the ad to a Officemax store and have they PM the Fry's price.
The deal: OM's price $79.99 - $33 PM (110%) = $46.99 - $50 MIR = FREE + $3 back in pocket.
Of course "all" PMs are YMMV.

Link to ad

 

[jrenna]

Sorry for my earlier post not being clear.

The OfficeMax in Poughkeepsie, NY had some Mad Dog drives in stock. A friend of mine got one for me and himself. Now I have to return my Pacific Digital. Glad I didn't open

 

[morbie]

I got the Mad Dog one at office max in east lansing, michigan, there is still one Mad dog left at that location. How and where can I upgrade the firmware to dual layer?

 

[dc]

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=25904

that should be the one.

 

[spinn]

finding a Pacific Digital drive at OM is hard in the Bay Area...it's on closeout.

 

[girishkr]

I got a MicrosAdvantage Drive and installed it, I am trying to make backups of the DVD's and no luck, the web site says that the Copyrighted movies cannot be copied using this drive. I tried copying 4 different movies and had success with only 1. I was able to burn the movies that was not possible with this drive with Maddog drive.

Anyone else experience the same problem with this drive. Any comments will help so that I can decide if I should returnt he drive back

 

[mplogic]

Thanks for the post. I picked up two of the Pacific Digital drives today and they are both 851S drives. The serials are 47935201XXXX and 42935201XXXX. This was at the Scottsdale, AZ store. They had 2 more of the PDs, one or two MDs, and a bunch of the Khypermedias. Was hoping one would be an NEC but I already have a 2500A (from Newegg) and it seems to have trouble burning some CDRs so figured I'd try the LiteOn. Here's a review on it: http://www.devhardware.com/c/a...LDW-851S-DVD-R-Review/

 

[MysticMan1]

Originally posted by: girishkr
I got a MicrosAdvantage Drive and installed it, I am trying to make backups of the DVD's and no luck, the web site says that the Copyrighted movies cannot be copied using this drive. I tried copying 4 different movies and had success with only 1. I was able to burn the movies that was not possible with this drive with Maddog drive.

Anyone else experience the same problem with this drive. Any comments will help so that I can decide if I should returnt he drive back

You cannot back-up DVD movies using the software that comes with in the retail box, you need software like this popular "free" software called DVD Shrink, which you can get here along with a how to Guide: LINK

 

[morbie]

I got the mad dog NEC 2500A drive and I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with it if its hooked up to a ME-325 series external enclosure. Every time I run dvdxcopy express it crahses the system as its reading the dvd. I updated the firmwear and it still has the same problem.

 

[mplogic]

Anyone have a link or a copy of the rebate for the Pacific Digital? OM seems to have pulled all Pacific Digital rebates from maxmyrebates.com even though the postmark date wasn't until 11/27... What I get for not sending it in right away I guess.