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Tatoo Hot: Yamaha 44x burner with DiscT@2 for $47

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HESDog

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This will be a definite YMMV, but I have found several in my area (and already gotten rid of a few)

Yamaha CRW-F1 44x24x44x cd burner, clearanced at OD for $47.04. The drive is quick and quiet, but the DiscT@2 feature takes 12 Minutes . :frown:
 
Why must you post this so close to 4th of July as I am trying to save up for a nice trunkload of fireworks.
 
Originally posted by: HESDog
This will be a definite YMMV, but I have found several in my area (and already gotten rid of a few)

Yamaha CRW-F1 44x24x44x cd burner, clearanced at OD for $47.04. The drive is quick and quiet, but the DiscT@2 feature takes 12 Minutes . :frown:
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OD product number?

 
Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Originally posted by: HESDog
This will be a definite YMMV, but I have found several in my area (and already gotten rid of a few)

Yamaha CRW-F1 44x24x44x cd burner, clearanced at OD for $47.04. The drive is quick and quiet, but the DiscT@2 feature takes 12 Minutes . :frown:
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OD product number?
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I knew I was forgetting something

SKU: 643-222
 
Originally posted by: RightHere
Originally posted by: Tainer
what is disct@2?
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It allows you to print pictures of teenage lesbians on the top of all of your CD's. Personally, I don't see how handy that is.
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Actually, it prints your teenage lesbian pics on the bottom of the disc, on the unused area of the data surface. 🙂
 
Well, it seems the price is national since website lists it at $47.04 however you can't order it online cuz the item is discontinued. Well if you do find it in store it's a much better find than a similar liteon for $45.
 
DiscT@2
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Is nothing but a gimmick. It prints hard to see graphics on the bottom of the disc where it is hard to find any place to print anyway.
If that is the reason for buying this burner you are wasting money. Other than that I like the burner, it is unique and rather fast and reliable.
 
Originally posted by: HESDog
This will be a definite YMMV, but I have found several in my area (and already gotten rid of a few)

Yamaha CRW-F1 44x24x44x cd burner, clearanced at OD for $47.04. The drive is quick and quiet, but the DiscT@2 feature takes 12 Minutes . :frown:
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IMHO this is one of the highest-quality CD-RW drives that you can get. I've been a big fan of Yamaha CD-RW drives for some time (they were one of the first, btw), and except for a couple of models with issues, they've all been quality. My 6416S lasted 3+ years. Ironically, it still burns fine, but has strange issues reading discs, I don't know what that's about. It got replaced with a Sony/Lite-On 48x (flashed to 52x), which is also decent, but depending on the media, willingly burns completely-unreadable coasters without telling you. My Yamaha *never* gave me any sort of media issues like that. (I attribute it to the Lite-On "cheating" and using media-type tables with burn parameters, and screwing up when two totally different-rated media from the same mfg uses the same mfg ATIP ID code.) The Yamaha 6416S was old enough that it didn't use a media table, and even with newer 32x media, it burns fine. The Lite-On won't burn my Hitachi-Maxell/Jpn 8x CD-Rs worth beans though.

Yeah, the T@2 feature is basically kind of fluff, and not all that useful unless you use Metal Azo CD-Rs, which have a high contrast ratio in the visible frequency range as well as IR, but even discounting that feature, this burner model is really good, IMHO way, way better than a Lite-On of comparable price. (Yamaha got out of the market, because rather than risk their reputation on CD-RW drives made from low-budget components in order to make a profit, like all current drive makers, they just got out instead.)

Btw, the "44x" rating, just so people won't be disappointed, was calculated using 80min-length CD-R media, and is actually more comparable, benchmark-wise, to a "40x" using 74-min media. (I never burn faster than 24x or 32x anyways, for quality reasons.)
 
Originally posted by: RightHere
Originally posted by: Tainer
what is disct@2?
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It allows you to print pictures of teenage lesbians on the top of all of your CD's. Personally, I don't see how handy that is.
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HAHA!!!

good one...


From the link someone posted, it says it tatoo's the unused area on the cd writable area. Does it tatoo the label side as well?
 
ive had the CDRF1 the internal version for a while......i paid 135 for it and it was still worth it. i dont use the disctattoo thing very much but i use the audio quality mastering all the time. this drive is the best cd burner ever made!
 
It's predecessor, Yamaha CRW3200E could not burn CDRWs for me. It could only burn CDRs.

Although UNCHECKING DMA in Device Manager > CD Burner options solves this CDRW burning problem, it slows down the computer during the burning process to a crawl. It only affects CDRW discs of all types, not CDRs.

It also couldn't read some discs. I RMA'd it and it came back reading discs it couldn't previously but the CDRW burning problem remains.

 
OK, I have this drive, I have no problem with burning but I have to say that I do not see any advantage over Liteon. Except for DiscT@2 which is as far as I am concerned a completely useless gimmick. The reason why they are geting out of the market is simply because they cannot compete. The same fate will struck Plextor. It is not that Liteon is cheaper and worse. It is cheaper and equally good if not better.
 
i feel that it's because the optical drive market will peak/has peaked
looking at the prices (will not post because working some deals and waiting)

 
The T@2 feature is pretty worthless IMO, however what you guys (this includes liteon worshipers) forget is that Yamaha features AudioMaster which according to different forums significantly improves the sound quality of audio cds, and that feature is enough for me to buy F1 @ 47.04 instead of LiteOn. Not to mention that F1 features a P-CAV method when rewriting CD-RW which makes it faster than any LiteOn available at the moment.

*sigh* called four local stores, none of them have it in stock... 🙁
 
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