DVD burner recomendations

[ScoobyDoo]

Anyone recomend a good PC dvd burner? are duel layer burners worth buying and do you need special duel layer media?

thx

[Jezz_S13]

yeah you need special media (if you can find any) but it's deffo worth getting dual layer so you don't have to re-encode films etc when you copy them.

Might be worth waiting a bit or doing some serious research.

http://www.dvdplusrw.org/cgi/forum/ikonboard.cgi

[Kuddy]

the NEC 2500 has a good rep and the dual layer one (2510) is £75 at aria.co.uk. That said, I've just bought the pioneer A07XLA

[Method0ne]

the NEC 2500 has a good rep

Yup, NEC ND2500A is the dogs danglies for the price you can get it for, 8x dual format so +/-r and +/-rw, only thing it doesnt do is dual layer, works great with Bulkpaq orange media and Datawrite Red Top (v2 and v3) which are available cheaper than cd-r's in most cases (Datawrite Red Tops at ~£6 for 25 = bargain (www.svp.co.uk).

Never had a fault with it, only niggle I've got it sometimes it can be a bit iffy with reading back from a disc you've just wrote to, try and give it 5-10 minutes before trying to access what you've written and you're fine though.

Mmm.. 4.3gb in a shade under 12 mins.. lovely.

And at ~£60 delivered from Ebuyer (www.ebuyer.co.uk), you cant really fall off, imo.

Sure, there's gonna be better out there with regards to dual-layer and so, but for the cost you pay, I dont think it can be beaten as an entry into the dvd writing world.

[ScoobyDoo]

im quite tempted by this (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=62295) mainly cos of 12x burn and full nero included. Not sure on brand though

or this (http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=62680) , again 12x speed

[tomo]

i have a pionner 107. best thing for backing up movies is DVDXcopy. rips and compresses on the fly. it takes around 15mins to rip and 15mins to burn (4x). the program takes the main movie and sound track and then compresses as necessary to fit on a single layer disc. you can also tell it to copy everything, so you get all menus and extras, but then this will lose overall quality as it has to be compressed more to fit on.

i use www.121cdr.co.uk and have done for about 5 years now, they do some DVD media from 20p each :thumbs:

[PsYcHeS]

Gotta agree using SVP (http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/) ,i have known steve the owner since he started in his garage, real sucess story there, and he dont sell rubbish.

I have used the entire Pioneer range and am currently using the 107, 8 speed and stready as you like.

Almost all media and software likes it, i use a combination of Nero, Stomp, Clone DVD Decrypter etc and several ripping software, inc shrink which take the ENTIRE dvd extras inc and shrinks it onto a 4.7gb blank disk, handy eh?

[Dave_S]

Sweet, didn't know Dual layer ones were out :cool:

NICE prices as well :eek:

Dave

[Nicely]

Both a mate and I got NEC 2500s the other month. Fantastic price (from Novatech), dual format and excellent performer. :thumbs: