(Dead) Cendyne DVD-R/RW 4X Drive (Pioneer) "$149.99" AR & coupon at Staples

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: Trianon
Went out yesterday and bought HP DVD 300i DVD+R/RW@ OM(199.99- 50(200i rebate supposed to work on 300i, since it's a replacement). Did you guys see that deal? There is a contraversy about rebate, but my HD is overflowing and I have no time to mess with Staples.

for once i can say that this staples deal went as smooth as it possibly could have...then again i havent had a chance to send the rebate in yet

 

[jaybert]

yup, thumbs up!

 

[Sept1967]

That is another thread, another drive format, and another price. Please dont cross post these drives.

Originally posted by: Trianon
Went out yesterday and bought HP DVD 300i DVD+R/RW@ OM(199.99- 50(200i rebate supposed to work on 300i, since it's a replacement). Did you guys see that deal? There is a contraversy about rebate, but my HD is overflowing and I have no time to mess with Staples.

 

[Trianon]

Originally posted by: Sept1967
That is another thread, another drive format, and another price. Please dont cross post these drives.

sorry, just needed to vent, so pissed over the way Staples handled that order...

 

[Sept1967]

NO doubt.

Staples was mysteriously out of stock as soon as the ad posted last time too. Then as soon as the ad is over, magic, they have new stock at full price. They are as bad as CompUSA.

 

[TheHouch]

It arrived, finally! It installed very easily, on my lunchbreak in fact. I started burning a movie I had already made an image of onto the RW disc. Hopefully it will play on both my players. Now just to wait for the 50 rebate to turn this good deal into a hot deal.

 

[TheToddler]

Originally posted by badluck regarding his fear of the DVD-R/W format:

dood, you are missing the point....heh.....the bottom line is that you want 1 standard so that in x amount of years you can walk up to any dvd player and play/use it. if you have a company that makes commercial DVD's and you spend tons of money producing dvd's, you want them to work in any system. customers don't want another betamax...there are many other implications, but come on dood, you should get the point....

hey badluck,

Just for the record, if you have a company that makes commercial DVDs, you already know that:

1) Commercially DVD-R is the industry standard for pre-production authoring of DVD media
2) DVD-R/RW disc is 100% logically and physically compatible with the DVD-Video standard
3) DVD-R/RW disc is 100% logically and physically compatible with the DVD-ROM standard

So I would not be concerned about the longevity of DVD-R. If you want to play in this arena, DVD-R is currently the safest bet. And you also have to realize that NEITHER DVD-R or DVD+R will be the standard forever. We'll be writing with blue lasers in a few years.

Toddler

 

[commOdog]

finally got mine as well.

It seems gomer, bubba and jethro at the "Staples Courier" shipping place couldn't find my address, said they tried to call and then took my box back to the warehouse 100 miles away. I asked them why they were lying since I had no phone calls that day on my cell or messages in voice mail... "Uhhhh" was their response..

I got it the next day

 

[Pardus]

If anyone is looking for quality media, check this out. There media is better than Princo, DVDPro, Ridata, Ritek, DVD-Pro, Optodisc and Prodisc all of which this place tells me is Grade B or low quality media. 100 pack will cost you $159.99 shipped or $1.59 each, but they guarantee to replace any disc that fails if its not software or hardware related issues. Something no other company that I called was willing to do. Company is called http://www.buy-dvd-r.com/.

 

[MysticMan1]

The Cendyne DVD-R/RW 4X Drive is back in stock. I put 700 in my cart to see how many are in stock and they all went in my cart so there are at least that many available. I don't know if that's just in my area code (L. A.) or for all area codes.

 

[FFactory0x]

I have staples gift checks? Would i have to go in sotre to use them plus can i still pm to frys if i got the ad

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: MysticMan1
The Cendyne DVD-R/RW 4X Drive is back in stock. I put 700 in my cart to see how many are in stock and they all went in my cart so there are at least that many available. I don't know if that's just in my area code (L. A.) or for all area codes.

I just picked one up in LA.

Thanks!

 

[jeepers94]

100 pack will cost you $159.99 shipped or $1.59 each

Gee,you pay nearly 3 times the price of the so-called(by these fools)"B" grade media.They replace bad media,if they conclude it was not due to any other factor.Please just show me any tests showing these are "the best",other than from people selling them! As far as I can tell,these are 1x media.You can buy Ritek 4x for about the same price.I bought LDs for about 60 cents each,no coasters in about 60 burns!

 

[endsoftheworld]

I have nero 5.5.something. Chose DVD-Video (UDF and UDF/ISO attempts failed). Burned fine. Won't play on either standalone, or even in the stupid drive I burned it with! I don't see an option to close the disc...which program are you using, and do you know how to close it with Nero 5.5? Help...I'm desperate!

 

[Gnurb]

not in stock for me (boston)

 

[sep]

got mine at a local store. With tax and $30 coupon it cost $222.54 (less with the $50MIR). I just couldn't wait any more. I don't even have a DVD-ROM on my pc and it was not fun being at a lan party and I coudn't copy from anyone's DVD-R's...bummer. Had to tie up another machine to download from.

Looking for HOT DEAL on media now....

 

[md500]

Hi,

Went to my local store and they applied the $40 coupon in the store. Came out to be 211 incl. tax before $50 rebate.

Gonna install it now.

 

[alchemize]

Still OOS in central IL

 

[Walliser]

Just wondering: is anyone else having problems with the included DVD-RW disc?

I attempted several times to burn a data disc, not even a movie. And it failed each time during the data verification. I tried both: regular Nero which I had installed already and used to burn DVDs before and the included Nero Express. Both with the same failure.

Another problem I am having is that it will not read my OptoDisc DVD-RW that I burned only 2 months ago on the predecessor of this drive.

I did not try to burn any DVD-R discs. They are a little too expensive to simply burn a coaster.

 

[RideFree]

Just wanted to report that Staples came through on the back of UPS yesterday.
And, yes, it's installed but I haven't had a moment to try & burn something.
Shucks, I don't rightly know what it is I might want to burn...

Can I hook up the DishNetwork PIV recorder with all of my Enterprise episodes (since day one) and burn them to a DVD?
What other reason to get the recorder is there?

 

[Rio Rebel]

The first post in this thread has some wonderful links. USE THEM, instead of coming here asking for help. Normally, I would not say this, but burning a commercial DVD is not something that can be explained to you in two sentences. There are two main problems - decrypting the commercial DVD, and then fitting the (normally) greater than 4.7 gig file(s) onto a 4.7 gig DVD media. There are some good walkthroughs on this, and you can find what you need by looking through the links MysticMan provided. There's no shortcut on this one - if you want to learn how to do it, you're going to have to take a little time here.

Thanks, MysticMan, for the thread. I went out and bought one, and I'm on my way to learning how to do this myself.

By the way, there are quite a few places where people talk about problems with Nero. Some people never have a problem, others seem to be unable to make it work. The problem is that Nero is not 100% successful in burning DVD's that will play on all machines. Also, different versions of Nero are apparently more successful than others. Do some research and you'll be able to find what you need.


One more thing: Here's a pretty good walkthrough. Remember that the method and the software is going to be different depending on the size of the DVD (and whether it's encrypted). LINK TO DVD BURNING GUIDE

 

[lazy00]

ill paypal $10 to the first person who can post or email (iaa2k@dslextreme.com) /pm me the rebate that was available around mid january. staples just has the new one posted and i cant seem to find the old one anywhere.

-thx in advance

 

[commOdog]

Originally posted by: Walliser
Just wondering: is anyone else having problems with the included DVD-RW disc?

I attempted several times to burn a data disc, not even a movie. And it failed each time during the data verification. I tried both: regular Nero which I had installed already and used to burn DVDs before and the included Nero Express. Both with the same failure.

Another problem I am having is that it will not read my OptoDisc DVD-RW that I burned only 2 months ago on the predecessor of this drive.

I did not try to burn any DVD-R discs. They are a little too expensive to simply burn a coaster.

Yeah Walliser, My included disc failed until the point of it wouldn't even erase anymore........ I went down to office depot and picked up a 5 pack of memorex dvd-rw for 19.99 to practice my dvd copying skills with and they work fine. I took the dvdrw that came with the drive and threw it out my front door in the general direction of staples and it flew pretty good!! I guess thats all it was good for.
I also burned a few samsung dvd-r's my friend gave me and they wroked great. Seems that crapola one they sent was worthless..

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: commOdog

Originally posted by: Walliser
Just wondering: is anyone else having problems with the included DVD-RW disc?

I attempted several times to burn a data disc, not even a movie. And it failed each time during the data verification. I tried both: regular Nero which I had installed already and used to burn DVDs before and the included Nero Express. Both with the same failure.

Another problem I am having is that it will not read my OptoDisc DVD-RW that I burned only 2 months ago on the predecessor of this drive.

I did not try to burn any DVD-R discs. They are a little too expensive to simply burn a coaster.

Yeah Walliser, My included disc failed until the point of it wouldn't even erase anymore........ I went down to office depot and picked up a 5 pack of memorex dvd-rw for 19.99 to practice my dvd copying skills with and they work fine. I took the dvdrw that came with the drive and threw it out my front door in the general direction of staples and it flew pretty good!! I guess thats all it was good for.
I also burned a few samsung dvd-r's my friend gave me and they wroked great. Seems that crapola one they sent was worthless..

no problems here with the included dvd-rw...works like it should, with instantcopy and nero

 

[Qtip]

FYI:

I had compatibilty issues on DVD players with several different makes of DVD-R disks and the included DVD-RW disk while using DVD XCopy. I finally tried Ritek 4x media burned using InstantCopy and it works like a champ in all players, even an old crusty RCA player.