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Delta 12X DVD @ 39 bucks Hot or What?

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akaristos2

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Krex is offering as special a 12X DVD Delta player for 39 bucks. Never heard of Delta. Is it any good or how does it compare with DVD deals we are seeing these days. I am mounting a new computer on a tight budget and this may be good. Any thoughts?
 
I was looking to get this drive my self, I went there (yes, they are a brick and morter store, been around like 4 years) but they were sold out last week 🙁. Im going to try and get my hands on one of these latter this week, to cheap to pass up, I can't afford anything else and need a dvd drive
 
They have this drive for $49.99 at compusa.com after a $30 instant rebate. The shipping charge is $28 dollars. All of their other cd, dvd, and cdrw drives were approx. $5 shipping, so I called and the B&M agreed to give me the drive for the $49.99 price. That is not bad for no shipping. Two things, this drive has 512k buffer, which is pretty good for a dvd drive these days. Second thing, it is reported it won't play Disney dvd'd until you do a firmware upgrade. The firmware is not available from their USA site, but is from the Taiwan site. The posts I read said it was easy to flash the firmware. I decided to wait and just get another "name" brand drive like Toshiba or Pioneer. Good luck to all.
 
I have this drive, it was horrible, couldn't read DVDs and took forever to spin up. But I flashed the firmware and it seems to work pretty well now. It's all right if you can settle for a cheapo drive, though Toshia DVDs could be had for about 50-60 sometimes.
 
I also bought one of these & flashed it, it was pretty bad before the firmware upgrade, spinning up, long seek times, some misread disks, after the flash it's just loud & slow, but it works (probably for 6 months), have a Teac 12X & there's no comparison.
 
save the $39 and apply it to the cheapest name brand dvd player on newegg.com, which can be had for $51 shipped.
AG
 
Purchased one last week for $39.99 at CompUSA (2) day sale for a computer I'm building. Very loud, I'll probably return it!!
 
Thank you much. It seems that there is no contest. i.e, forget about Delta and save the 39 bucks and aggravation related to a bad purchase decision. If there is any good DVD deal, pls let me know. Thanks again.
 
Yup Delta = bad. Dvd drives are always reasonably priced at newegg. Just picked up a toshiba there myself.
 
CC and Staples also have this DVD rom, so if you can PM, and use coupon, and find MIR, it can be a good deal. As everybody said, firmware flash will make it working fine. In my case, the DVD rom is quiet, and it can read all my cd r/w while the lousy Delta CD rom can't.

Just found one more thing, I don't think this DVD rom supports DMA. So it will slow down the other device (say CD ROM) on the same IDE cable.
 
Which one does not support DMA? The Tosh or the Delta? Also while we are at it, and from yr experience, which decoder software is best and how to get it since the Newegg and others selling OEM items sell only the drive.
 
Both of them support DMA...as for the software question...you could buy it with the drive (maybe?), or you know, find some sites with eval. versions or something...wink wink. =)
 
My Promise card reports the Delta DVD rom does not have DMA, even you can still check the DMA option in windows me.

Delta comes with winDVD 2000, which is pretty good.
 
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