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Best DVD format for the NEC 2510 DVD-Burner?
Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners -
as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks |
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 01:32:06 +0100, "Gameface"
wrote: Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks Doesnt really matter. The more important thing is what quality is the specific make of DVD and how compatible it is with your burner. In the early days of CD burners there was a lot more compatibilty issues - specific makers and brand of burner. Now you run into it sometimes but in general my Liteons and even generic brands can burn almost anything. NECs are known to burn to a wide variety of media but DVD burners havent been around as long as cd burners. The optorites and other brands had lots of compatiblity problems you could see from the posts at various sites and all the brands had and probably still have some issues with some brands. My 1300 NEC had big problems with the early white vinyl top COMPUSA branded disks but not the silver top ones. They seem to have improved the quality of the COMPUSAwhite vinyls and I dont have any problems now. When I was throwing away the early white vinyl tops I bent them to crack them to throwaway in the rubbish and they came apart really easily. DVD disks are kind of a sandwich and the layers came apart really easily with those. The ones I got recenty I threw away one and it was very difficult to crack and it didnt come apart. The Khypermedias - I hate to bash them because they look physically well made in terms of not coming apart and people tend to bash them relexively because they were often given away or sold at deep discount after rebate. I dont know if its my NEC and NECs as I said are one of the better DVD burners in terms of compatiblity - they tend to produce a lot more coasters than other brands.I thought it would be another compatibility thing - like the white vinyl COMPUSAs and things would get better as NEC adjusted the firmware. I have the latest firmware and overall Id say the Khypers are just a bit spotty. Not only have I had a lot more coasters overall than COMPUSA brands, Philips, HP and some other brands --- I checked a few Khypers two nights ago and to my horror the data was all corrupted on them. Im going to recheck all my burned Khypers tonight . A real pain the ass. Ive seen a few warnings on packs Ive received - a pack of Khypers that said dont use on Pioneers unless you got the latest firmware and a spindle of some online stuff that said they wont work with the NEC 1300s - so there are still compatiblity issues going on. Also the 4x Khypers I got recently on sale - they burned OK but my two older DVD roms wont recognize them at all, all the other brands 2x stuff work on them. Overall Im kind of down on Khypers right now and sticking with the generic white COMPUSAs as my cheapo brand. |
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"Gameface" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks I have the 2500A model, and use 4x Verbatim dvd-r which can be burned at 8x - I assume that the 2510A has the same capability. But some 8x media has dropped in price below the 4x Verbatims, although I have not tried any yet. -- Doug Ramage |
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"Doug Ramage" wrote in message ... "Gameface" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks I have the 2500A model, and use 4x Verbatim dvd-r which can be burned at 8x - I assume that the 2510A has the same capability. But some 8x media has dropped in price below the 4x Verbatims, although I have not tried any yet. -- I got some samples of the grey top 8x dtatsafe "fuji" dye. Seems to be close to ritek for compatability. Going for about £8.99 for 25. |
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"Gameface" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks Get dvd-r disks with a ritek g04/g05 dye. |
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"steeler" wrote in message ... "Doug Ramage" wrote in message ... "Gameface" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks I have the 2500A model, and use 4x Verbatim dvd-r which can be burned at 8x - I assume that the 2510A has the same capability. But some 8x media has dropped in price below the 4x Verbatims, although I have not tried any yet. -- I got some samples of the grey top 8x dtatsafe "fuji" dye. Seems to be close to ritek for compatability. Going for about £8.99 for 25. I was looking at these (from SVP?). Have they performed OK? -- Doug Ramage |
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"Doug Ramage" wrote in message ... "steeler" wrote in message ... "Doug Ramage" wrote in message ... "Gameface" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks I have the 2500A model, and use 4x Verbatim dvd-r which can be burned at 8x - I assume that the 2510A has the same capability. But some 8x media has dropped in price below the 4x Verbatims, although I have not tried any yet. -- I got some samples of the grey top 8x dtatsafe "fuji" dye. Seems to be close to ritek for compatability. Going for about £8.99 for 25. I was looking at these (from SVP?). Have they performed OK? -- Sample was 10 discs. 8 burned so far (4 DVD, 2 PC data, 2 Xbox backup) - all fine no coasters, no skips, etc. and the graphs look very similar to ritek. Until ritek 8x drop in price I will be using these from now on. |
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Ref: 8x datatsafe "fuji" dye
SVP told me they would only Burn at 4x .........Anyone confirm? "Doug Ramage" wrote in message ... "steeler" wrote in message ... "Doug Ramage" wrote in message ... "Gameface" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks I have the 2500A model, and use 4x Verbatim dvd-r which can be burned at 8x - I assume that the 2510A has the same capability. But some 8x media has dropped in price below the 4x Verbatims, although I have not tried any yet. -- I got some samples of the grey top 8x dtatsafe "fuji" dye. Seems to be close to ritek for compatability. Going for about £8.99 for 25. I was looking at these (from SVP?). Have they performed OK? -- Doug Ramage |
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"Gameface" wrote in message
... Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks I guess SVP could always answer your question if you email them, maybe. Going OT here slightly but I am considering one of these drives, can anyone answer the following? 1) What is the fastest that Dual Layer drives will go to? I have been told that something like 8 or 16x is the theoretical maximum for the current non Dual Layer burners. Or is this BS? 2) The previous drive from NEC that isn't Dual Layer but can be made so via firmware upgrade - has this been done successfully without problems yet? TIA |
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"Raiden" wrote in message ... "Gameface" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me - I'm looking to buy one of the new dual-layer burners - as the new media won't be out for a few weeks I just wanted to know what is the next best format to buy (DVD-R or DVD+R) in both quality & value for money. Thanks I guess SVP could always answer your question if you email them, maybe. Going OT here slightly but I am considering one of these drives, can anyone answer the following? 1) What is the fastest that Dual Layer drives will go to? I have been told that something like 8 or 16x is the theoretical maximum for the current non Dual Layer burners. Or is this BS? 12x is the current fastest i believe (but i havent seen one available in the uk yet) 16x looks possible. 2) The previous drive from NEC that isn't Dual Layer but can be made so via firmware upgrade - has this been done successfully without problems yet? The firmware update works, only prob i know about is that on some machines when you turn your computer on the drive opens...... annoying, but hardly anything to panic about. |
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