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No digital out from my new DVR???

eviltoon

Senior member
I just upgraded to an internal duel layer 16x dvd w/rw from a simple internal DVD player. It's the Pioneer DVR 108. All the stats looked good. Howver, looking back I can see was no mention of it having digital out. Looking at other brands I notice this doesn't seem to be mentioned either. What gives? I wanted this to be my only optical drive so I can make room for a 3rd hard drive. I am more than disappointed that it has no digital out. Is this common? Why would they even think of making a digital player/recorder without this capability?

My main concern is copying my cd's to mp3 using Music Match. Without digital out it defaults to 1x write with a maximun bit rate of 128. I don't like that. Simply, is my only option to bring it back? The strore I got it from is very cheap but they take a hard line of returns. coming to think of it this is more of a rant...I think I know what I have to do...
 
Are you using the trial version?

All optical drives are capable of DAE (Digital audio extraction) , which is much faster than a digital audio connection cable, and you can enable it in windows XP/2000.
 
Fish TankX please go on. No I am not using the trial version of Music Match. It's the full product and most recent upgrade. Do I enable digital audio extraction through Device Manager? If so I have ensured that the box saying "Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device" is checked. Anything else?
 
Well, if you're using 2k/xp it should be enable-able through the device manager, under the drive's properties, as you have stated. Just check 'Enable Digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device'. That should do the trick.
 
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