What dvd writer do you own?

[cypher_soundz]

What dvd writer do you own ? Please post any others you own that are not on the list.

[gooki]

Two Toshiba SDR-5002's and one Pioneer DVR-104.

[kajan]

Philips DVD+RW-D01

[oddyseus]

Teac DVW50E. Actually a rebadged A105. HAve it for 2.5months now. Being very content from it.

[alamatula]

I've bought myself a Sony DRU500A i'm happy with it but on 4X princo i can't make it burn that fast...

[coona]

I have HP dvd200i DVD+R/RW for more than 6 months. Only minus is slow grabbing speed (only 2x with removing macrovision :().


*EDIT* What kind of idiot I´m :D. I didn´t permit DMA to my writer so it uses 100% of CPU all the time!!! So it can grab nearly 4x :).

[alexnoe]

Pioneer DVR-A03, for 1 and a half year now.

[kheops]

A03

:)

[The_Flash]

A03

[Arky]

DRU-500ax

Writing speed regardless, it genuinely is a very nice drive.

I await LiteOn's competing product with great interest. Doubtless, it will undercut the Sony by a significant margin, and I think many forum members may end up buying it. I anticipate £200 being the approximate starting point, and I fervently believe that this writer is solely responsible for Pioneer's recent price drop on the A05 - they know damn well that as soon as the LiteOn dual-format drive hits the shelves, the A05 will be choking on it's dust!


Arky ;o)

[ales19]

Toshiba SD-R5002

[David Hwang]

Panasonic LF-D311

[scarpy]

i have 2 pioneer a05 - not had a problem with either of them:D

[andyg]

Pioneer A05 & not a single coaster yet using Maxell and Fuji media!

[2COOL]

Sony DRU-120a DVD+R/RW
Ikebana DVD+R/RW Drive by Shecom Computers

[Malow]

two A04, two A05....

i burn a looooottt of dvds (i work on a video production shop)

i have burn problems monts ago after buying the first A04, but the media cause all problems... i write about 4 to 10 dvd every day, whith disk juggler, auvistar media, no problems for 5 months....

god bless pioneer.. :)

Malow

[smiller667]

Toshiba SD-R5002.

[fetek]

since february 2002 A03, last 2 months DRU500AX. Bought burners are good, but media! +R seems to be problemless

[Doom9]

I can't vote for 3 burners at the same time: A04, A05 and DRU500A. Going to sell the A04 real soon though as I only have two PCs.

[Sepen]

I have had the 103 for 18 months now and just picked up a HP300i (NEC1100a).

[cypher_soundz]

Alot of people own a pioneer , i thought alot more were gonig to own a NEC1100A. (i just brought a NEC) V happy with it !

[yamyam]

Bought a pioneer 104/A04 about 6 months ago, regret every penny i spent on it, Coaster City.

[cypher_soundz]

was this becasue of the many different media options out there (some being very cheap) or just the drive in general? the cheapest media i have brought is datawrite (£1.16) and everything has beeen fine so far:)

[yamyam]

I bought some datawrite yellows all my drive does with these is make coasters same results with white label (datawrite & white label dvd-rw also) ive tried all firmware versions from 1.20 to the latest 1.41 no success. Also get same results with bulkpaq, the drive will write cd-r though but will not write my cd-rw discs that my cd writers will.

What is your opinion on this problem ?

Thanks

[cypher_soundz]

I would have to say, try a high quality disk (verbatim) or try changing the software you use, I have tried Nero, DVD decrypted, imgtools, I stuck with imgtools (1.00.4) it rules! Just make sure to turn off iso standard. You may consider that you have had a bad flash also if you have not had any successful writes after an upgrade/downgrade.

Just a few thoughts

Regards

Cyph

[yamyam]

I have at the moment fw version 1.41 if it is a bad flash how can i downgrade there isnt a downgrade version yet for 1.41 or how could i reinstall the firmware because thinking about it i did have a few successful burns a while back, im using the latest version of nero mostly, tried dvd decrypter but only tried imgtools up until 0.89 i havnt tried the later versions, i though of trying another brand of disc but i have 150 of the above & dont particuly want to spend more money just to make some more coasters. I thought up till now it might be crap firmware but i think it could just be a bad flash any ideas how i could get around this ?

[cypher_soundz]

There most probably are ways around bad flashes, it is very easy if you dumped your old firmware to a back up, other than that head over to http://www.firmware.fr.st/ and do a search there. I've never had a bad flash (to my knowledge) so I have never looked in to it sorry.

Regards

Cyph

[FeWipS]

NEC ND-1300A
Datawrite DVD-R 4x doesn't work, be warned as i was not :(
Nashua DVD+R 2.4x does work but only tried data storage yet no dvd backup

[busted123]

Pioneer DVR-A03

[Ollie W. Holmes]

I have three on one machine. Pioneer A03 (sec ide lun 1 dma), Panasonic LF-D321 (sec ide lun 0), and Sony DRX-500ULX (firewire). Read my thread at

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=a16c4e85.0305201328.43e3d384%40posting.google.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26group%3Dalt.video.dvd.tech

on getting all three to work on a Win ME machine. The sony works very nicely with verbatim dvd+r and dvd+rw media, once you get around the installation problems. Don't use Record Now DX on the Pioneer or Panny burners. Stick with the software you were previously using, assuming it's Prassi Primo.

[johnboy00]

Lovin' my Ricoh RW5125A DVD+R(W) w/1.51 f/w and rpc1 region-free patch.

[chowder15]

Toshiba SD-5002

[aklendathu]

HP 200i (currently with 1.51 Firmware)

[Xesdeeni]

Ricoh RW-5125A (OEM).

Xesdeeni

[Fantom]

The new Sony DRU510A. I bought it today for $647 Australian, it's my first DVD writer and I'm pretty damn excited :D
It writes DVD+RWs at 4X, CDRWs at 16X and reads DVDs at 12X. Aside from those 3 improvements, the specs are the same as the DRU500A.

I spent a few hours reading up here yesterday, and today I backed up a bunch of DVD-9s with no problems. Thanks guys :) I'll keep reading up, and hope to be able to contribute.

[klona]

A03 and will perhaps go on a A05 as I use now only Riek G04, and would love to burn @X4.

Or perhaps will wait for the A06, but I don't care to have only DVD-R support.

[AudioVideoMaster]

Sony DRU-500ax
using FUJI DVD-R media (no coasters yet!)

[vmesquita]

LG GMA 4020B (DVD-R/RW and RAM)

Seems that I am alone...

[]'s
Vmesquita

[MvB]

Have the NEC1300A for 1 month now and I'm highly satisfied with it.

[EYEREX]

Sony DRU-510A
Been waiting a long time to get one and have to say it's a thing beauty

[dwflo]

Verbatim/NEC DVD+RW ND-1000A