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Optorite DVD Burner
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4. November 2003 @ 13:51 |
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pkkd,
hopefully you are using a trial of DVD Decrypter. before you buy, try DVD Shrink its free and you can put what you want in the burn,ie menu or not , trailers or not, if it has a neat thx openning i'll put it in before the movie.like the cow sounds on monsters inc. i dont think the guide has been updated to beta5 yet but its similar no full disk button and the reauthor brings up a different screen that you have to drag the movie file and whatever you are putting in with it (if anything)to the new screen. using the deep analysis takes very long but on large screen (over 50") you'll see better quality. don't notice any diffeerence on my 32
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cherzo
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5. November 2003 @ 12:38 |
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does anybody know if the bios beta 2.18 does any good or is it a bad thing to use it?
tia
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Corey_NY
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5. November 2003 @ 20:09 |
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Grettings all,
I'm thinking of buying this drive and I want to backup DVD's using DVD X Copy Express (for now). Is this the drive to get? Or should I spend a bit more cash and get another drive? Tygerdirect.com has this drive listed for $119 - great price.
Thanks!
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Telstar
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6. November 2003 @ 12:51 |
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NewEgg.com is currently selling the DD0203 for $110.99 with free shipping, but I would still not recommend this burner because of its terrible firmware support and media compatibility. Both NEC ND-1300A and Pioneer DVR-106D are much better values than the DD0203, especially if you burn a lot of DVD discs and distribute them to others. Just my two cents.
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cheib
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6. November 2003 @ 19:58 |
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Corey opinions vary on this drive but I have owned this drive for 6 months now and have had nothing but success with it. and for the price of $108.99 w/ free shipping at newegg.com you cant go wrong, I just put in a purchase for a 2'nd one for my other PC. Just stay away from crappy cheap media and you will have no problems with the optorite.
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multiplex
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6. November 2003 @ 21:36 |
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I bought the OptoriteDD0203 some months ago and was quite happy with it as it does everything it promised and i had burned dozens of discs and also used it as a normal CDDrive to install software or play pc games.(Windows 98SE)
However recently i bought a set of educational software discs and none of this discs can be read on the optorite! The discs play the software perfectly on another computer installed with Yamaha CD burner, hence the discs are good.
I contact the software maker and they said it is probably due to special privacy copy protection scheme of their educational software and they have no solution for the moment. The told me that on other DVD writers it had worked before. Anyone have similar experirience?
regards\ Multiplex.
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Corey_NY
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7. November 2003 @ 08:29 |
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OK, I bit the bullet and bought this drive from Newegg.com for $107 shipped (!). I know this thread will be a huge help in getting the drive up and running. While I'm waiting for it to arrive, I'm going to play with Nero 6 & DVD Shrink. Does anyone have a link to good media to use with these programs & drive? I'm going to be backing up DVD's and want them to play on my stand alone DVD which only supports DVD-R.
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pkkd
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7. November 2003 @ 09:03 |
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Corey,
My standalond DVD drive (Samsung Inspiron Dual Format) says that it only plays DVD-R, but in reality, the only thing i can get it to read is DVD+R... so I think that you may have to trial and error.
Stay away from Sony with this drive (not recognized yet), and I've had exceptionally good luck with Memorex DVD+ and -R and RW's.. both the - and + play in my home DVD player, and both the +'s play in my computer drive.
Beware the junk media.
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cheib
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7. November 2003 @ 09:11 |
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Corey I buy most of my media from yesbuy.net they seem to have some of the cheapest prices going on princo's and ritek media stay away for there sky media though since it is hit or miss with those.
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koola
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8. November 2003 @ 09:29 |
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No probs with my DD0203. One hell of a DVD writer for under £100!
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Corey_NY
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8. November 2003 @ 14:40 |
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Guys, Thanks for your help. The drive was shipped and should be here on Wednesday - Yahoo!
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sync
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11. November 2003 @ 06:19 |
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New firmware available for the 0203. Optorite is the only company I can think of that posts firmware updates and doesn't give you a clue as to what improvements they contain.
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Telstar
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11. November 2003 @ 14:22 |
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This has been said before, Optorite din't develop the firmware themselves, instead it just uses the ones developed by Sanyo, and that's the main reason why they don't provide any change log because they really don't know what has been changed. For version 2.23, the only thing for sure is that finally the burned DVD-R discs can be recognized by most PC DVD drives and some standalone DVD players using the same PC drives.
It's a shame that while both Plextor and Optorite use the Sanyo chipsets, Plextor can develop a great burner, but it took Optorite over 6 months just to figure out how to make theirs function properly. The only consolation is that now we have both Lite-On and BTC as the worst dual format burners, and Optorite doesn't own that title any more.
Cheers
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geocean
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11. November 2003 @ 17:10 |
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Has anyone tried the FW 2.23 yet?
I clicked on it and didn't see anything happening other than a transient show of a blank window. My drive is still 2.16.
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sync
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11. November 2003 @ 17:21 |
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I couldn't get this update to take in Windows so I downloaded the DOS version and that worked fine.
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Coblck
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12. November 2003 @ 00:08 |
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Do you think the new firmware 2.23 for drive 203 will work on my 201 drive, has anybody tried it yet
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pkkd
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12. November 2003 @ 05:38 |
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Make sure that you close all applications before applying the Windows f/w update. If there is a lock on the drive, the f/w update will stall. Nero is such an example.
There are separate downloads for the 0203 and 0203... just download and install the right one... I have installed it, still doesn't recognize SONY media. Oh well. Hopefully this fixes my dvd-r reading problems in my other PCs.
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FunkyBoss
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12. November 2003 @ 05:40 |
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Ummm, no the new firmware for the DD0203 drive will not work on the DD0201. But maybe the new firmware for the DD0201 drive will work on the DD0201 drive.
http://www.optorite.com/firmware.htm
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Coblck
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12. November 2003 @ 11:14 |
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Just upgraded to firmware 2.23 i can now play my burnt discs recorded on my optorite on my pionner 119 dvd rom drive yeah, about time only thing is it will only read about half of my cd-roms now, small price to pay will try and install firmware again but at least i can play on other dvd rom's
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Telstar
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13. November 2003 @ 14:39 |
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Has anyone tried to use the same DD0203 to read the burned DVD-R discs after updating to v2.23 firmware? Mine couldn't read the same disc just burned and therefore cannot do the data verification under Nero. LOL, should have known this v2.23 update is too good to be true given Optorite/Sanyo's pathetic firmware update history.
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Fltline
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13. November 2003 @ 16:42 |
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The Princo's that I burned before flashing with 2.23 work just fine. What brand of DVD were you using?
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dcinege
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13. November 2003 @ 17:20 |
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I upgraded to 2.23, and using Linux growisofs in single session mode, results a disc that still doesn't work. : ) The difference is that now my laptop's 8121 drive stops spinning after a little while instead of endlessly spinning. But I can't play the disc. It plays fine from the optorite. It's still also burning the 4x Princo at 2X, even though it reports 4X.
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Fltline
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14. November 2003 @ 05:11 |
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I'm using XP Pro, the Princo 4x burned at 4x starting with version 2.16 and using Nero 5.5.48, but when using Nero 6 it dropped back to 2x. Put 5 back in and it's bzck to 4x. Go figure..
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#afonic
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14. November 2003 @ 08:38 |
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Well I think someone must start a new post! You need days to read this one!
http://www.dvd-guides.com/
More than 25 guides about DVD, DivX, (S)VCD, miniDVD!
Copying, ripping, shrinking, burning and authoring!
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telor
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16. November 2003 @ 06:43 |
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Telstar, I have the exact same problem. Does anyone has a previous firmware? I think 2.16 is the best so far? Can someone email it to justbecause@imtoosexy.com?
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