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DVD Drives
"Dimas Guardado" wrote in message
... I'm building a new computer to take up to Cal with me. I'm trying to get top of the line parts for good prices. I'm now on the hunt for a DVD drive. Any suggestions? I would also appreciate magazine and website reviews of these products. Thanks a lot. They're all much the same. Lite-on tend to be pretty cheap. Pioneer is nice too. I say just buy any old DVD, and spend your time worrying about something more important like the motherboard. Gareth |
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Cool. That's pretty much what i figured. I just needed a backup opinion.
Thanks a lot, buddy. -Dimas "Gareth Church" wrote in message ... "Dimas Guardado" wrote in message ... I'm building a new computer to take up to Cal with me. I'm trying to get top of the line parts for good prices. I'm now on the hunt for a DVD drive. Any suggestions? I would also appreciate magazine and website reviews of these products. Thanks a lot. They're all much the same. Lite-on tend to be pretty cheap. Pioneer is nice too. I say just buy any old DVD, and spend your time worrying about something more important like the motherboard. Gareth |
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Gareth Church wrote:
"Dimas Guardado" wrote in message ... I'm building a new computer to take up to Cal with me. I'm trying to get top of the line parts for good prices. I'm now on the hunt for a DVD drive. Any suggestions? I would also appreciate magazine and website reviews of these products. Thanks a lot. They're all much the same. Lite-on tend to be pretty cheap. Pioneer is nice too. I say just buy any old DVD, and spend your time worrying about something more important like the motherboard. I'd go with Lite-On - they are cheap but they certainly don't act like it. My Lite-On DVD drive happily plays rental DVDs that won't even play in my regular DVD player. |
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"BarryNL" wrote in message ... Gareth Church wrote: "Dimas Guardado" wrote in message ... I'm building a new computer to take up to Cal with me. I'm trying to get top of the line parts for good prices. I'm now on the hunt for a DVD drive. Any suggestions? I would also appreciate magazine and website reviews of these products. Thanks a lot. They're all much the same. Lite-on tend to be pretty cheap. Pioneer is nice too. I say just buy any old DVD, and spend your time worrying about something more important like the motherboard. I'd go with Lite-On - they are cheap but they certainly don't act like it. My Lite-On DVD drive happily plays rental DVDs that won't even play in my regular DVD player. Why bother when you can get an APEX regular DVD palyer from Wal-Mart for $50 ? |
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jaster wrote:
"BarryNL" wrote in message ... Gareth Church wrote: "Dimas Guardado" wrote in message . .. I'm building a new computer to take up to Cal with me. I'm trying to get top of the line parts for good prices. I'm now on the hunt for a DVD drive. Any suggestions? I would also appreciate magazine and website reviews of these products. Thanks a lot. They're all much the same. Lite-on tend to be pretty cheap. Pioneer is nice too. I say just buy any old DVD, and spend your time worrying about something more important like the motherboard. I'd go with Lite-On - they are cheap but they certainly don't act like it. My Lite-On DVD drive happily plays rental DVDs that won't even play in my regular DVD player. Why bother when you can get an APEX regular DVD palyer from Wal-Mart for $50 ? Well, my "local" Wal-Mart being a few thousand miles away for a start. |
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"rAD" wrote in message . net... "jaster" wrote in message y.com... "BarryNL" wrote in message ... Gareth Church wrote: "Dimas Guardado" wrote in message ... I'm building a new computer to take up to Cal with me. I'm trying to get top of the line parts for good prices. I'm now on the hunt for a DVD drive. Any suggestions? I would also appreciate magazine and website reviews of these products. Thanks a lot. They're all much the same. Lite-on tend to be pretty cheap. Pioneer is nice too. I say just buy any old DVD, and spend your time worrying about something more important like the motherboard. I'd go with Lite-On - they are cheap but they certainly don't act like it. My Lite-On DVD drive happily plays rental DVDs that won't even play in my regular DVD player. Why bother when you can get an APEX regular DVD palyer from Wal-Mart for $50 Ripping DVDs to SVCDs is one of the fun things you can do with a DVD drive and is very easy. All you need is this free bundle http://www.dvd2svcd.org/ and the cinemacraft exe that you can find on p2p Most movies will fit on two CDs, which you usually can get for free after rebate. You'll need PowerDVD or WinDVD to view them on your PC tho. Stand alone players all play SVCDs. rAD I tried a lot of the converting programs and this one was by far the easiest to use. Everything you need from start to finish. http://members.eezi.net.au/~phatjeff/ Choose XVCD and it will max out the bitrate so as to fill up the 2 discs. Instead of two 1150k/bs VCD's you get the most out of the discs without blank space. The quality is between VCD and SVCD. And they play with WMP as well.... |
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"LeeB18509" wrote in message ... "rAD" wrote in message . net... "jaster" wrote in message y.com... "BarryNL" wrote in message ... Gareth Church wrote: "Dimas Guardado" wrote in message ... I'm building a new computer to take up to Cal with me. I'm trying to get top of the line parts for good prices. I'm now on the hunt for a DVD drive. Any suggestions? I would also appreciate magazine and website reviews of these products. Thanks a lot. They're all much the same. Lite-on tend to be pretty cheap. Pioneer is nice too. I say just buy any old DVD, and spend your time worrying about something more important like the motherboard. I'd go with Lite-On - they are cheap but they certainly don't act like it. My Lite-On DVD drive happily plays rental DVDs that won't even play in my regular DVD player. Why bother when you can get an APEX regular DVD palyer from Wal-Mart for $50 Ripping DVDs to SVCDs is one of the fun things you can do with a DVD drive and is very easy. All you need is this free bundle http://www.dvd2svcd.org/ and the cinemacraft exe that you can find on p2p Most movies will fit on two CDs, which you usually can get for free after rebate. You'll need PowerDVD or WinDVD to view them on your PC tho. Stand alone players all play SVCDs. rAD I tried a lot of the converting programs and this one was by far the easiest to use. Everything you need from start to finish. http://members.eezi.net.au/~phatjeff/ Choose XVCD and it will max out the bitrate so as to fill up the 2 discs. Instead of two 1150k/bs VCD's you get the most out of the discs without blank space. The quality is between VCD and SVCD. And they play with WMP as well.... The quality with www.dvd2svcd.org and cinemcraft mpeg2 is nearly as good as DVD as long as you don't zoom it. It's faster than TMPGEnc too. But you do have to be a bit dishonest and swipe the small cinemacraft 2.5 exe file. BTW, this is a great test for a new computer cuz it runs the CPU and memory at maximum for several hours. rAD |
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