DVD Burner - looking for advice

[ShinGouki]

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, but i thought General forum seemed adequate enough.

Now that prices are getting more reasonable, and the speeds seem to be slightly less sluggish, im seriously considering getting a DVD burner over the summer. Now i know there are still a lot of different formats out there right now, and im not entirely sure which companies are teh more reliable these days in the DVD burning arena.

Plextor were always a good buy for CD-RW drives, but who is the equivalent for DVD drives. What discs are cheap and readable on a standard DVD-R drive. And how long can i expect to wait for one of those discs to be burnt.

I guess i just generally want an idea of cost, performance and advice from people who have actually used the things.......

Thanks in advance

 

[Corporate Thug]

pionner A05, you can get it for about $150 AR, great performer

 

[wetcat007]

Sony makes what seems to probabily be the best in my opinion, they have tyhe fastest ones, and they do both DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W.

-Mark

 

[ShinGouki]

where can i get that Pioneer for $150???

It seems to be more like $250 most places.....

do you have a link

 

[GetInMyFatBelly]

Pioneer just announced the A06 and it will be dual format like the Sony. I prefer the Optorite dual format DD0203, that has 8mb cache and Sanyo HD Burn technology.

 

[ShinGouki]

does the 8mb buffer make it faster like on the newer hard drives??

Or is it purely a reliability feature to make write errors less likely. And is 4x likely to stay the maximum speed for a long time?

 

[zephyrprime]

I doubt that 4x will remain the fastest speed for a long time. I bet the speeds ramp up somwhat faster than they did for CD burners just because the industry has more experience with this sort of thing now. I remember some other thread where they were talking about new lasers for faster dvd burners.

But even so, waiting for anything faster may be too long of a wait. The prices now are pretty good and 4x is reasonably fast (a little less than 20minutes for a dvd).

 

[anomaly]

Originally posted by: shady06
pionner A05, you can get it for about $150 AR, great performer

There are currently 8 A05 Refurbs, from an authorized refurb distrubitor, on Ebay for $100.

 

[alkemyst]

anyone know if all IDE DVD drives are compatible with the IDE to SCSI convertors?

I have a drive bay, SCSI ID and cable end ready for placement

I like my Pioneer reader, but sony is the shiznit for the burner, however that reason is keeping the price $250+..so everyone stop buying for a couple months .


Chris