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DVD burners, which do you use?

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Just curious which DVD burner you use, how long it takes to burn a 4.7gb disc and if there is anything about it you dont like (ie wish you hadnt bought this brand etc)

right now im trying to decide whether to get

16x DVD player
52x CD burner

or

DVD burner

 
i have used a sony dvd burner before, not the 500a. I downloaded Lord of the Rings in dvd quality and it took about 15 hours to burn the first half. well, leme take that back, 14 hours of rendering, and 1 hour to burn. if your getting it to burn data, get it, but if you want to burn movies, think twice about burning speeds.
 
Originally posted by: CheapArse
i have used a sony dvd burner before, not the 500a. I downloaded Lord of the Rings in dvd quality and it took about 15 hours to burn the first half. well, leme take that back, 14 hours of rendering, and 1 hour to burn. if your getting it to burn data, get it, but if you want to burn movies, think twice about burning speeds.
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??? 15 hours
 
Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
Originally posted by: CheapArse
i have used a sony dvd burner before, not the 500a. I downloaded Lord of the Rings in dvd quality and it took about 15 hours to burn the first half. well, leme take that back, 14 hours of rendering, and 1 hour to burn. if your getting it to burn data, get it, but if you want to burn movies, think twice about burning speeds.
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??? 15 hours
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that was for the first half only, and even then there was no audio, but the picture was perfect, i mean pure dvd quality. since it took so long, i just decided to wait until it came out and buy it...i did this back in june...couple months before they released it to own.
 
Originally posted by: CheapArse
i have used a sony dvd burner before, not the 500a. I downloaded Lord of the Rings in dvd quality and it took about 15 hours to burn the first half. well, leme take that back, 14 hours of rendering, and 1 hour to burn. if your getting it to burn data, get it, but if you want to burn movies, think twice about burning speeds.
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Yeah, that's more true if you're copying movies, but less of a concern when you're making home movies.

Anyways, I'd get a burner with at least 2X DVD-R write, but preferably 4X DVD write.

And check my sig for some general info.
 
I have the Cendyne DVR-105 (Pioneer) and with 4x media, I can burn a full disc in about 15 minutes.
 
Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: Maezr
What's 'rendering'?
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are you serious, or did i miss spell that or something??
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I've never heard of rendering in DVD terms. If you downloaded LOTR you shouldn't have had to do anything if it was in DVD format unless they released a non downsampled version.
 
Data or video. Now that is just burning time. If I want to make a copy of one of my kids movies so they don't have to take the original in the SUV to watch on road trips, I usually copy to my hd, use dvd2one to reencode to fit on 1 disc and then burn with nero. Total time to prepare and burn is about 45 min.
 
I've never heard of rendering in DVD terms. If you downloaded LOTR you shouldn't have had to do anything if it was in DVD format unless they released a non downsampled version.
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i downloaded an avi file, but it burned a mpeg2 format
 
Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: Maezr
What's 'rendering'?
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are you serious, or did i miss spell that or something??
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I've never heard of rendering in DVD terms. If you downloaded LOTR you shouldn't have had to do anything if it was in DVD format unless they released a non downsampled version.
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Ditto.

I know what rending is, ie, rending a movie when exporting to an mpeg/avi/whatever, but never in this context.
 
Originally posted by: Cat13
Data or video. Now that is just burning time. If I want to make a copy of one of my kids movies so they don't have to take the original in the SUV to watch on road trips, I usually copy to my hd, use dvd2one to reencode to fit on 1 disc and then burn with nero. Total time to prepare and burn is about 45 min.
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SUV!!! you support terrorism!!...lol. i hated those commercials
 
Hrmm...I thik DVD Burners are still too prohibitevly expensive. I remember getting my dad to rn to COMPUSA to buy a 2x2x6x Acer REwritable for 100 dollars after a rebate...and now that i think back it was kinda a waste considering how quickly burners have become affordable
 
Originally posted by: magomago
Hrmm...I thik DVD Burners are still too prohibitevly expensive. I remember getting my dad to rn to COMPUSA to buy a 2x2x6x Acer REwritable for 100 dollars after a rebate...and now that i think back it was kinda a waste considering how quickly burners have become affordable
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you cant think that about technology, everything is like that. you can go get the best comp system money can buy, 2 months later you can get a better one for the same price.
 
Originally posted by: Maezr


Ditto.

I know what rending is, ie, rending a movie when exporting to an mpeg/avi/whatever, but never in this context.
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it's RENDERING (since you spelled it rending twice i figured it wasn't a typo)

and it's when the program has to take it from one format and render it to another format for comaptibility with said program.

 
Originally posted by: CheapArse
I've never heard of rendering in DVD terms. If you downloaded LOTR you shouldn't have had to do anything if it was in DVD format unless they released a non downsampled version.
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i downloaded an avi file, but it burned a mpeg2 format
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I had always heard of that referred to as transcoding...

Anyway, back to the subject, I just got the Pioneer A05. It does DVD-R at up to 4x (15 minutes/disc), DVD-RW at 2x (30 min/disc), and it does CDR's at something like 8-10x. I don't know for sure because I have a dedicated 24x CD burner. All of the DVD burn speeds are dependent on the quality of media that you use. 4x media currently carries a significant price premium over 1x media (1hr/disc). Eventually it will come down in price, and that's why I went ahead and bought the 4x burner.

On one hand, I wish I had gotten the Sony burner for the added DVD+R/RW support, but that was a $100 more that I didn't have. Mine works for what I need.
 
Originally posted by: Cat13
I have the Cendyne DVR-105 (Pioneer) and with 4x media, I can burn a full disc in about 15 minutes.
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true, now the process of preparing the burn is another story some take10 mins (16x DVD player ripping about 4.6 gigs) 15 mins (16x dvd player full DVD 9), some take 25 mins(DVR-105), some take 1 hour(DVR-105 full DVD9), then you must run it through some program like IFO edit which takes anywhere to ahlf hour, now to fit one DVD 9 to one disk is a different story all together, you then have to rip encode author then burn your looking at 10 hours, unless your pc is really fasts then you most likly could slice that time in half! I personally enjoy the DVD 9's I ushally just let them encode over night, I sleep on! I have had my burner for 25 days and already have over 15 movies backed up, mostly encoded. oh yea I use 1x media also very cheap I ushally author and edit the encoded video file in the morning while im getting ready for work then let it burn in nero setting the pc to shut down after completion. Its kinda like my little system that keeps my pc busy and happy, she likes to feel needed, she really enjoys it when I touch her in the morning.
 
Pioneer 105 DVD-R/W 4X here. Rendering is a proper term. The time to "render" (convert from AVI to MPEG/1/2/4) has nothing to do with burning time or the DVD-R drive at all.

If you hurry, you can get the above drive for $150, which is as good a deal as you will find anywhere. Hot Deals
 
sorry I miss informed you all, i just installed my new lite-on drive and I just just used dvd decrypter and just ripped just the main movie in under 9 mins. about 4.6 gigs. pretty fast im happy!
 
I decided to get in on the Cendyne 4x DVD-R deal. Funny how it shows up as a Pioneer drive in my computer 🙂 Anyway, burned a full data dvd in about 30 minutes (2x media). Looking to get a good deal on some 4x media.
 
Originally posted by: cvstrat
I decided to get in on the Cendyne 4x DVD-R deal. Funny how it shows up as a Pioneer drive in my computer 🙂 Anyway, burned a full data dvd in about 30 minutes (2x media). Looking to get a good deal on some 4x media.
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same here, I guess most of them are. What media are you burning with?
 
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