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rishardc
8th June 2004, 20:19
Does anyone have this burner? I am probably going to go pick it up from compusa. They have them for $119 and they support DL.
rishardc
9th June 2004, 00:43
Ok so I was impatent and bought it. Its really a repackaged 2510A. It burns to DL media just fine though. The verbatim media plays back evry player I have tried so far. Didn't try the xbox yet though.
DMagic1
9th June 2004, 07:03
Thanks for the info.
So it comes with a dl9 disc? Nice.
rishardc
10th June 2004, 20:34
No it didnt come with any disks. I bought those seperately in the verbatim pack.
yohansenbabe
10th June 2004, 21:34
Where did you get your blank DL media and how much did it cost?
rishardc
11th June 2004, 04:08
I bought them at best buy in the DL burner pack. Its kind of a rip off, but I didn't mind since i was able to test it out. BAsically its 1 DL disk with 8 single layer 8x disks, and a 4x DVD+RW for $30.
DMagic1
11th June 2004, 04:16
You would think that Verbatim would go ahead and get their disc to market. Instead we are being teased with that pack.
writersblock29
17th June 2004, 06:32
@rishardc

Do you know whether or not this burner supports DVD-ROM bitsetting? What burning software are you using?
rishardc
19th June 2004, 21:42
It came with nero, and Honestly I don't know much about bitsetting. I suppose if a NEC 2510A supports it then this will as well.
writersblock29
20th June 2004, 06:15
@rishardc

Thanks for the reply! The term "Bitsetting" is used to describe the practice of formatting a DVD+R as a DVD-ROM -- which, in turn, improves the compatibility of your recorded disk. Many set top players won't recognize DVD+R-formatted disks... but if you record the same project on a disk that's finalized as a DVD-ROM, the very same player that rejected your disk the first time will often accept it. Nero uses the DVD-ROM bitsetting as part of the "DVD Video" feature; however, not all drives support this.

I'm not sure what features the OEM version of Nero allows you to use (I'm using the full version), but if it's available on yours, you can use Nero CD/DVD Speed to check the format of the DVDs you've recorded. This really only becomes a big deal if you're having certain machines that are rejecting your copies... but since I do professional video work (and often committ these projects to DVD for clients) I ask about this because I'm thinking of getting a DL recorder -- but want to insure that the end results can be read on as many players as is possible.

I'll do some homework on the NEC models, though. Thanks for the info!

--Cheers!