If you are looking to upgrade to the NEC 3520a, wait...

[JackBurton]

NEC's 3520a just hit stores and Doom9.org has the scoop on the leaked detail for NEC's next model DVD burner. Here's the word on the street:

NEC's latest model has hardly hit the stores, but preliminary specs for their next model, the ND-3530A, have already leaked. You can look forward to 8x DVD+R DL burning within a reasonable timeframe. The drive is also able to read dual layer DVD-ROM discs and DVD+RW discs at 12x.

 

[Baked]

Yeah right, might as well hold off on buying anything, 'cause you know the moment you buy the 3530A, NEC will come out w/ a 4500A. You can probably flash the 3520A to 3530A. And seriously, can you even find 8x DVD+R DL media? No? So what's the point?

 

[Icepick]

Waiting around for the next best thing is a losing proposition. If you need a DVD recorder or any other PC component just buy it. Otherwise you'll be in an endless cycle of waiting for something better when you could be enjoying your PC!

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Baked
Yeah right, might as well hold off on buying anything, 'cause you know the moment you buy the 3530A, NEC will come out w/ a 4500A. You can probably flash the 3520A to 3530A. And seriously, can you even find 8x DVD+R DL media? No? So what's the point?

Uh, I bought my 2510a before 8X media was available, and guess what, there is media out now that will burn at least at 12X. WTF is up with the thinking that since there is only 4X media out, you should only get a 4X burner. What? Are you going to buy a 4X burner now and then buy an 8X burner when the media becomes available? Real smart.

Secondly, this is more for people that already have a DVD burner OR can afford to wait. I have a 2510a and was about to get the 3520a. The MAIN thing I'm looking for is DL burning speed and at 8X DL, that is a MUCH better speed improvement that burning at 4X. There may be a 16X burner out later, but 8X is a decent speed.

Any other genius questions you need answered?

 

[Budmantom]

That's cool, I'm still using my NEC1100A, once I use up the 50 dvd+ that I have I'll be getting a new burner.




Tom

 

[Budmantom]

Baked,

You must post 50X a day, you've only been here for less than 20days and you have over 900 posts, that has to be a record.



Tom

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Baked
Yeah right, might as well hold off on buying anything, 'cause you know the moment you buy the 3530A, NEC will come out w/ a 4500A. You can probably flash the 3520A to 3530A. And seriously, can you even find 8x DVD+R DL media? No? So what's the point?

Uh, I bought my 2510a before 8X media was available, and guess what, there is media out now that will burn at least at 12X. WTF is up with the thinking that since there is only 4X media out, you should only get a 4X burner. What? Are you going to buy a 4X burner now and then buy an 8X burner when the media becomes available? Real smart.

Secondly, this is more for people that already have a DVD burner OR can afford to wait. I have a 2510a and was about to get the 3520a. The MAIN thing I'm looking for is DL burning speed and at 8X DL, that is a MUCH better speed improvement that burning at 4X. There may be a 16X burner out later, but 8X is a decent speed.

Any other genius questions you need answered?

Haha...nice.

I'm in the same boat...I've got a 2510A that works great, but I'll probably ppick up one of these new ones when it comes out so I will be able to burn DL media someday and not have it take most of ther day @ 2.4X...

 

[ponyo]

Wake me up when 16x DL is available. Until then 8x single layer is good enough for me.

 

[cw42]

then one day when blu-ray, or HD comes out dvds will become obsolete and we're all screwed!!!

 

[beany323]

heck, i dont care if it takes 2-3 hours, thats why they made FPS!!!!


*die you, die!!*

kthxbye

 

[slash196]

Yeah, but who knows if it'll be as quick and reliable as this one? They might queer up the whole process. It's possible.

 

[Yossairian]

oh THANKS !! my 3250 just arrived 2 days ago.

hehe j/k, I can't even justify the cost of buying DL media yet anyway, and it was a huge upgrade from the 1X -r writer that I was using.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Baked
Yeah right, might as well hold off on buying anything, 'cause you know the moment you buy the 3530A, NEC will come out w/ a 4500A. You can probably flash the 3520A to 3530A. And seriously, can you even find 8x DVD+R DL media? No? So what's the point?

Uh, I bought my 2510a before 8X media was available, and guess what, there is media out now that will burn at least at 12X. WTF is up with the thinking that since there is only 4X media out, you should only get a 4X burner. What? Are you going to buy a 4X burner now and then buy an 8X burner when the media becomes available? Real smart.

Secondly, this is more for people that already have a DVD burner OR can afford to wait. I have a 2510a and was about to get the 3520a. The MAIN thing I'm looking for is DL burning speed and at 8X DL, that is a MUCH better speed improvement that burning at 4X. There may be a 16X burner out later, but 8X is a decent speed.

Any other genius questions you need answered?

Did you even read what I wrote? Do you even know what cross-flashing means? Don't blast me just 'cause you didn't follow up on the "news" and bought yourself some slow burner that can't be cross-flash to faster speed.

And why are you telling people to wait for the 8x DVD+R DL 3530A, then turn around and tell me there's a 16x DVD+R DL burner coming out later. Well, which one is it? Make up your mind already.

Most importantly, how many people besides you burn w/ DL media when SL is so cheap? Do people even want to waste money on DL when a properly encoded movie looks just as good as the original burned on SL? Let me answer that for you genius. NO.

 

[JackBurton]

Did you even read what I wrote? Do you even know what cross-flashing means? Don't blast me just 'cause you didn't follow up on the "news" and bought yourself some slow burner that can't be cross-flash to faster speed.

Oh yeah, I read every dumbass word. Cross-flash? Hmm, let me see if I know what that means. Firmware that has been "hacked" to increase burning speed, remove rip lock, add bitsetting (booktype) for DVD+R and RW, region removal, and flash an earlier model drive with a newer drive's firmware, etc. Hmmm, yeah, I never heard of "cross-flashing." :roll: And let me tell you, I bought my 2510a when it first came out, and there where no better DVD burners out. And there was no "news" of the 3500a's release. If you already bought a 3520a, it's great that they could possibly come out with firmware to flash it to a 3530a. But if you already have a DVD burner and can wait for the 3530a, why take a chance and buy a 3520a now? The 3530a will probably debut VERY close to the price of the 3520a, so why take a chance on the 3520a unless you HAVE to get a burner now? So yeah, I'm not blasting you because of the burner I bought, I'm blasting you because you're a moron.

And why are you telling people to wait for the 8x DVD+R DL 3530A, then turn around and tell me there's a 16x DVD+R DL burner coming out later. Well, which one is it? Make up your mind already.

I'm taking this line by line so I can address your questions without you getting confused. I told people the 3530a was coming out shortly, and EVENTUALLY a 16X DL burner may come out in the future. Did I say to wait for a 16X DL burner? No. Why? Because there is no word about its release yet. The point of that statement was, even if something faster comes out, 8X DL burner is a decent speed. Did I make that clear enough for you?

And last but not least...

Most importantly, how many people besides you burn w/ DL media when SL is so cheap? Do people even want to waste money on DL when a properly encoded movie looks just as good as the original burned on SL? Let me answer that for you genius. NO.

So you think a DVD burner is ONLY used to copy retail DVD movies? Maybe that's your problem. But even when "backing up" DVDs, the reason it fits on a single layer DVD is because you stripped out all the extras and just left the movie. Sometimes a little compression is needed if the movie is too big, but usually not much compression if any. THAT is why the movie looks VERY close to the original. Now try doing that with a 7GB+ pure MPEG2 video file you created. Let me help you out, DVD Shrink won't even compress it enough to fit on one SL DVD. And if you could, it would be so compressed it would look like crap. And I'm not going amateur style and splitting it into 2 DVDs either. PLUS I don't want to have to create a DVD menu that links the second DVD. Another thing I use my burner for is to back up hard drive images (some that exceed 8GB). Having a bootable DVD image on ONE disc is pretty dang sweet. So to sum everything up, I'll use DL discs when SL discs just don't cut it.

Did I go into enough detail for you there brainiac? Now I need you to pack up your sh!t, and get the fvck out of my thread.