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Raite 8x DVD-ROM $49.95, Decoder Card $24

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Thanks for the explaination Stormrider. I <unfortunatly> have the creative DVD player and can't even get their own software to work with it. I can get it to work with WinDVD so I guess that is ok. Hopefully when I reformat that may help...who knows

thanks again
 
I would certainly recommend the Asus 8X from Egghead for like $66. I just got this in the mail the other day and I am SUPER impressed....DAE is flawless, digital audio output, and it is just rock solid....retail box too....and supposedly region free....though I can't confirm.
 
s-video. have to ahve s-video components.
depends on what you input component can do. standavcr is reg. rca a/v. which isnt horrible , getting a dvd out at this price is good.
 
Cool, just buying a 25'' Sanyo TV from Walmart, and it has S-Video, so that's going to help out. $250, not bad for the TV.
 
stormrider is right bout the decoder card, it's really picky bout what kind video card you have, dont support all video cards so read up before purchase
 
Sorry to bring this up from the dead, but did any of you who ordered this drive have any problems with it, or did it work flawlessly out of the box? Reason being, of course, I'm having trouble with mine. Half the time it doesn't want to read the disk in it and sometimes when it does read it, it quits responding, making windows lag and become very unstable until you &quot;End Task&quot; on whatever it is that is &quot;(not responding)&quot;. It also refuses to read cd-r's at all, haven't tried a DVD yet cause I don't have any but I'm willing to bet, it'll give me trouble. Please share your experiences, good or bad.

Setup info:
Abit BH6 original BIOS
300a @ 450
v3 3000
HP 9350i on master link of IDE 2 cable
Raite 8x DVD on slave link ^^^^^^^

TIA for any info,
Justin
 
I just got this drive last week, so far it seems alright (considering the price). DVD playback was flawless with PowerDVD, although when you insert a disc into the drive it seems to take a little longer than normal to spin up and be recognized by Windows. Had a weird problem with playing a couple music CDs, Winamp will hang sometimes and I have to ctrl-alt-delete out of it...Otherwise, so far so good.
 
anybody else ordered this and received it already? any more impressions? this seems like a good replacement for my defunct cd-rom.
 
The only problem I can think of is that it has a hard time with some CD-RWs - no problem with CD-Rs. (I use my burner for those rewritable disks, anyway.)

It's a nice and quiet drive. I am very happy with it, so far.
 
ugh... i'm having problems, a little like justin. it reads dvd's and most cd-rs ok, but for a lot of retail &quot;real&quot; cd's, it just won't read or spin up (i.e. win98, office 2k, all official cd's). i'm RMA'ing it for a replacement today, since it seems most people got working drives...

jonathan
 
I've had 3 Raite DVD drives so far. The first came stock in my new computer in Feb 2000. It stopped reading disks within 3 months. Symptoms were either 'No disk', 'No files', or it'd try to read a data/software disk as a music CD. That was with Win98, btw. I RMA'd the DVD, they sent me a new one a week later, and a 2nd new one a week after that ::shruggz::. The first new one worked thru the WinMe beta thru several weeks of using WinMe final, then repeated the symptoms again. I dropped the spare new one in, and it repeated the symptoms w/in weeks. I realize my anecdotal info is out of date, and hope anyone who runs Raite drives gets good quality with more recent products, but I'm done with Raite anymore.:disgust:
...crasher...
 
Just my .02, but my Raite drive is a POS! I have had it about two months, and have more problems every day. Slow spinup is minor. Half the time I boot, the IDE channel goes haywire and neither of my drives is visible. It takes almost 10 seconds for the drive door to open (I would kill to get the mentioned 4-5 second delay,) and many times it will not read a production CDRom disc (Superbike 2K, Office 2k.)

And getting this thing to send data to my burner is impossible. Without copying to the HD first, I do nothing but make coasters. It is constantly spinning up, then slowing down.

Stay clear of this thing and spend the extra cash for a Pioneer!

Shane
 
ack! stop telling me these things! i'm am seriously considering just eating the 15% restocking fee and getting the 12x from toshiba, like i should have done in the first place. or a pioneer...
 
dang! why no comments about all this earlier? 😛 well, e-mailed them just to give me a refund instead of a replacement. it'll save me possible headaches down the road. thanks all for the feedback!
 
Well, it took 3 weeks to act up. Now that I know it is a POS, it goes back minus 15% (experience) and I just ordered the Toshiba 12X DVD-ROM for $62.64 (with free shipping from Onvia.com - in a current thread here).
 
Yeah, i'm chalking it up to experience too. Only super-solid name brands, especially when they're only a little more expensive. Haven't ordered from Onvia ever since their make-over, but here i come now...
 
Just to add some more info for those considering DVD decoder card.
A decoder card is NOT needed if you have a PC made within the past 2 years, and was made for use primarily on slow computers with piss poor Video cards. &quot;Most&quot; modern Video cards do NOT support this internal type of connection to the decoder card any longer, and you must use an external pass through cable with most. Creatives newer decoder cards, like Dxr3, no longer use an internal connector. A decoder card adds TV output for DVD use only. No Windows desktop or game playing will ever work using the TV out on a decoder card. DVD using TV out is limited to 640x480 with this card. Using a decoder card also takes up one of your PCI card slots.

 
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