HOT! DVD Burner deal of the Month!!! Dual Format for $199. and free shipping

[Muzzy]

Originally posted by: DanT
Muzzy - That one you linked to is NOT a +/- combo drive. It's a DVD-R drive only.

Oops, my bad. All these freakin standards are driving me nut, imagine people that is computer illiterate.

Now, how about the softwares? What would I need to go with this drive? Thank again.

 

[GetInMyFatBelly]

This is not a OEM drive, it is the retail version, it's supposedly a rebadged Sanyo OEM, but I'm not so sure as I read the Sanyo would only have 2mb cache.

Yes HD Burn works for data.

HDCD is something different than HD Burn, as stated previously.

Here is a link to the other items included in the retail packaging:
http://www.accupc.com/images/thumbnail/DROPDD0203/index.htm

Pic of the retail box:
http://www.accupc.com/images/thumbnail/DROPDD0203/index.htm

 

[Ashwanb]

Well I just got mine. Neither of the discs it comes with seem to have any drivers for it and I don't see any on there website. I put it in place of my old Cd-Rom and while it windows detects as a recorder its still labeled "Cd-ROM" Where the hell do I get drivers for this thing???

 

[Budman69]

What operating system you using?, does it come with nero? with a lil ingenuity you can find any software on the 'net free....i got mine coming friday.....tracking is great, nice website and people to deal with

 

[cjchaps]

You probably don't need a driver specifically for the unit. If windows picks it up, and you can read CDs in windows, you are probably good. The nero software can then recognize and use it.

Originally posted by: Ashwanb
Well I just got mine. Neither of the discs it comes with seem to have any drivers for it and I don't see any on there website. I put it in place of my old Cd-Rom and while it windows detects as a recorder its still labeled "Cd-ROM" Where the hell do I get drivers for this thing???

 

[TTM77]

Originally posted by: cjchaps
You probably don't need a driver specifically for the unit. If windows picks it up, and you can read CDs in windows, you are probably good. The nero software can then recognize and use it.

Originally posted by: Ashwanb
Well I just got mine. Neither of the discs it comes with seem to have any drivers for it and I don't see any on there website. I put it in place of my old Cd-Rom and while it windows detects as a recorder its still labeled "Cd-ROM" Where the hell do I get drivers for this thing???

It's nice deal if the website works. Probably their site is down right now.

Yes, you are right that you don't need driver. Nero or whatever burning software you use has the driver included. So if you have old Nero or something, you need to update it for newer drive.CD-Rom but what capacity does it display? CD can't exceed 700MB.

 

[noypi2000]

I bought this drive too and won't be getting it till next week. BTW, there is a new firmware that is posted on the website link. Hopefully this helps winxp recognize your drive. Let us know how HDBurn works. I am really interested in it. Thanks.

 

[Ashwanb]

thanks for head up noypi2000, I'll install that in just a minute. Well, even without it I did get it up and running on xp. I've tried doing a disc to disc copy of an unprotected DVD I had using the dvd+r they gave, some real cheap blank 1x dvd-r's I've had lying around that I use with my standalone Panasonic DVD recorder and some Maxell 2x DVD-r's I just bought last night. It detected the DVD+R disc and the maxell's also worked fine, but the cheap 1x dvd-r I had did not work. I'm currently trying to see how well it handles copying of a "protected" disc. I wanted to make a backup of Matrix, I used DVD decryptor to rip the movie, but what's the best app now for me to put it together and burn it on one of these maxell's?? Thanks

 

[noypi2000]

Ashwanb, you are welcome.
What cheap media did you use? Can you give the brand and maker. I will be using some Optodisc, Compusa and Verbatim datalifeplus dvd-r's that I recently bought. I hope it will work since I still have over 40 of these discs. I'll let you know if it works once I get my drive.

 

[capnswab]

Originally posted by: Merlin
I think this is a better deal:

NEC 1300A

It is a 4x DVD +/- R/W for $206 shipped made by NEC, which is a known reliable manufacturer.

Has anybody bought from Noble Computers before?

 

[headache03]

Is it me.. or isnt spending over 150$ for any burner expensive.. i guess im just waitin for Dual to go 150$

 

[unclebud]

depends if one really needs it, or is trying to ebay it
i paid $150 + tax for the 300i and i think it was worth it
wish i had seen this one coming for sho

 

[Esquire]

i've done noble 3 orders all good

 

[conehead433]

OK so I ordered one of these drives. I was sold on the HD Burn and figured it would be 6 months before anyone else was offering the same technology. And the fact that it was a multi-format drive. It was beginning to look like like Sony and others who currently had multi-format drives were not in any hurry whatsoever to come off their $300+ prices. I don't necessarily consider myself as a smart shopper buying a $200 item with no reviews or customer reports, but I guess I will find out soon enough. So thanks to the responders to some of my previous posts and hope you will excuse my lack of knowledge about Sanyo's products. I will advise to this thread as to my success and results with the drive. Although it may be some time before other DVD-RW mfg's offer Hd Burn, manufacturer's of DVD players will probably offer support pretty soon since Sanyo has said it would freely license the technology to player mfg's/ Hoping for the best.

 

[Budman69]

Well i got this drive yesterday and have yet to burn anything, the supplied software B's recorder gold does not have HDburn features and in the settings it shows HD and DDCD not enabled, also in nero i can get HDburn to show but not DDCD,when atempting to burn a HD it just gets errors and kicks the cd out, i flashed the latest firmware,nero is .31 and b's is 5.29

 

[Esquire]

nero' up to .35

 

[lungster]

Originally posted by: conehead433
"Sanyo is not synonymous with quality or leading-edge
technology, but they have been around longer than Lite-On,
which by the way used to manufacture drives for
Memorex as well."

Point taken. The fact is that Sanyo has been synonymous with junk. Let's call a spade a spade.
If you want proof look at their home DVD's that they actually put their name on. Who cares how long they have been around. They either build good products or something that falls short. ...

It's probably worth mentioning a couple of things. A company like Sanyo has many divisions, each with its own target audience. For example Sanyo manufactures lots of semiconductors and they do it very well. As a technology company, their name is often hidden from view but that doesn't make their goods and services to be of lesser quality than someone else's. Chances are that many electronic toys you own contain Sanyo parts and have worked flawlessly for years. Sanyo also makes end user consumer products that are targeted at the low end - the junk that we normally associate them with. The manufacturing, support, marketing and sales infrastructure for consumer products differs greatly from that of OEM semiconductor and assemblies. Presumably, they have their reasons for aiming at the low end (maybe it's a volume costs thing?).

Now in the context of this drive, the question to ask is whether they put forth the effort to make a good product or not - what is the target market ? what was their business plan for this drive ? I'd bet that in this space where the competition is Sony and NEC, they probably did a good job. Naturally, only time will tell. Nonetheless it's important not to get caught up on preconceived assumptions about the company. I wouldn't buy this drive only because it's a rev-1 product and so I'd rather wait for the follow-on version. But that doesn't mean this drive can't be a nice one.

 

[unclebud]

yep. i love my sanyo 19" tv(my mother gave it to me for a christmas present). withstood a psychotic girlfriend who knocked it onto hardwood floor and also successive moving to thwart the break-ins of crackeheads.
plus my family has bought several(meaning more than seven) refurbs(the above tv was one of them) from the factory.
the only ones that have conked out after a few years are the 19" that my brother(who owes me $100 from two years ago, clearly irresponsible) borrowed from my sister, and my aunt's 27" which was subjected to repeated viewings of fresh prince reruns and ghost dad.
sanyo tvs are not cutting edge(haven't seen one with component vid or hd yet -- but haven't been looking hard either), but i would say they are definitely reliable

 

[Keltron]

Here is a thread by people who bought it.

 

[htne]

My drive just came in about 3 hours ago. I installed it, and used RecordNow DX 4.60 to record a movie. I had "The Pianist" already stripped and reduced to 4.3 gigs (DvdToolBox and InstantCopy), and I recorded this to a Ritek G03 disc. The recorder ran at 2x, no errors, result plays fine on my 3 settop players (Pioneer, Apex, and Cyberhome). Next I am going to try the one 4x DVD+R disk which came with the drive.

Note that I am ignoring the B's Recorder Gold and Sonic MyDVD which came with the drive -- really low-class software, best ignored.

 

[Budman69]

I think i got a lemon i'm using ALL latest firmwares for nero and this dvd recorder when i try to burn any HDburn all i get is a TRACK FOLLOWING ERROR when i use nero FAQ it seem that you got a bad drive when you see this, i'm using winxp sp1 and even tried pio mode, still same error, i tried memorex and imation cd-r's....i'm getting pissed off with this!!

 

[latka]

Originally posted by: Keltron
Here is a thread by people who bought it.

Here's another database that has a couple of comments on this particular drive:

www.dvdrhelp.com

Looks like both have some pretty good success with it.

 

[Budman69]

well i got no succes with it, waited forever to burn a dvd, no disc errors when played in my apex's...this drive is crap

 

[Keltron]

If you burn it without HD burning enabled, i guess you can play it in any regular player. I dont think there's any compatibility issue with this drive

 

[memo]

Originally posted by: Budman69
well i got no succes with it, waited forever to burn a dvd, no disc errors when played in my apex's...this drive is crap

are you saying it did work in your dvd player? is the drive crap because HDburn doesnt work? Sorry I was just trying to see if you made a typo by saying it did or didnt work in your dvd player. and unsure why you would say the drive is crap. whats everyone else's take on this? are you guys also having problems with HDburn? anyone tried this with PS2 backups?