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The Dual Layer Price Wars Are Started Already
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25. June 2004 @ 07:07 |
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I was at a friend's house last night and we were discussing the current prices of DVD burners. We happened to check out Newegg.com's selection of Lite-On drives and noticed that they have Lite-On dual layer burners for under $100. Now I know I'll be able to get an affordable dual layer burner when the media gets cheap enough to make it worth having. If I can get a low priced Pioneer soon, I may not even wait since I only have a 4x burner now. I don't think I'd want this Lite-On because I want one that's capable of at least 12x for single layer blanks (hey I'm upgrading - I want a big upgrade!), but this is a good sign.
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Model# SOHW-832S WHT
Item # N82E16827106953
Specifications:
Write Speed: 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD+RW, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD-RW, 2.4X DVD+R9, 40X CD-R, 24X CD-RW
Read Speed: 40X CD-ROM, 12X DVD-ROM
Interface: ATAPI / E-IDE
Buffer: 2MB
OS Support: Windows 98 / NT 4.0 / ME / 2000 / XP
Features: Supported Double Layer DVD+R9 Recording Function. SMART-BURN. SMART-X function. VAS system.
Packaging: Retail box (see pictures for details)
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-106-953&depa=0
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25. June 2004 @ 12:28 |
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I was there the other night and noticed that too. NEC has one for $88. I'm still waiting for a Plextor though :)
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25. June 2004 @ 12:39 |
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Yeah, I'm waiting for a Pioneer myself. I don't have the money to buy a Plextor, but I think that's the only brand besides Pioneer I'd bother with. Hopefully the Lite-On will be as good as most of their drives are and I can recommend it to people as a good budget drive.
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25. June 2004 @ 15:34 |
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Heh, Pioneer is the only brand I'd buy other than Plextor :)
Hopefully the new Litey will live up to it's heritage. It's always good to have an inexpensive but good model to recommend.
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25. June 2004 @ 15:40 |
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So either we're both very knowledgable or we're both full of it 8D
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25. June 2004 @ 16:59 |
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I hope it's the first one!
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30. June 2004 @ 19:34 |
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Hmm! Perhaps a little of both, it makes for a well rounded person.
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6. July 2004 @ 03:57 |
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Well I paid a little more, but I just purchased the Sony DRU-700A from Comp USA here in NY. It was $200 w/ a $30 rebate. My DRU-500 completely died on me and I tried a few other brands (i.e. I/O Magic and Buslink) and they both were acting really weird with Nero. I plugged in the 700A and it worked flawlessly. Now I am waiting on DVD+R DL media to become reasonable.
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agent-k
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8. July 2004 @ 06:29 |
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What would be the real benefits of burning a movie to a dual layer disc. I mean the Quality of backup movies these days is more than adequate, provided it's done properly of course.
Dual layer writers are reasonably cheap but the discs would have to almost match the price of a good dvd-r for it to be cost effective.
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8. July 2004 @ 06:34 |
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I agree, but I myself have noticed the difference in quality when extracting the movie and surround sound as apposed to compressing the entire dvd content to keep te special features. It degredation is substantial. However my wife is very much into keeping the special features and other bonuses that are included with the dvd. Tjis was my arguemnt to her in order to verify the purchase of the Sony 700 (the excuse of I just wanted it, needed to be improved upon). :^D
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agent-k
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8. July 2004 @ 06:42 |
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You mean you told her that you were buying it?
Couldn't you just sneak it into the case and claim that you have had it for ages.
That's what my wife does with her new clothes.
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8. July 2004 @ 07:37 |
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Bluchipz
It is possible using the right software to do some serious trimming bring down the fiie size of a moive and still keep the menus and extras. I use DVDremake to accompolish this task and then I use DVDrebuilder with Cinema Craft Encoder to insure a great backup. A bit on the slow side so I use it only with very large files. and I do the encoding just before going to bed.
That's what my wife does with her new clothes. My wife does that too and what's worse is they don't think we know.
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10. July 2004 @ 09:02 |
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I bought the NEC.
It does the job and produced DVD+R and DVD-R paly on all Standalones i have tested.
Cheap as well
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18. August 2004 @ 15:08 |
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MJPByron
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19. August 2004 @ 07:13 |
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The NEC ND-2500 and ND-2510 are good dual layer burners as well. I can't sing their praises enough; they burn PS2 backups like magic and they're +/- RWs as wll. I got mine off of Newegg for $60 on sale, free shipping. ^^ They do great PS2 and DVD backups both.
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