What DVD burner brands are best?

Just want to do a quick survey on the most used DVD burner brands out there. Any replies are appreciated.

Gary Hendricks
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if you are looking at +/- R-RW drives, my friend and i both got sony dw-u12a drives about a month ago, and both of us have been pretty happy with them. haven made any coasters yet (knock on wood). using roxio easy cd/dvd creator 6 as burning software.

if you look around, you can find the pioneer dvr-106 multiformat drives for less than the sonys now. would love to hear any experience anybody has with those.

I like my LiteON (aka Sony) DVD burner. I haven't had a single coaster on it yet. It's definitely a quality drive.

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Go with Sony or Pioneer.

I've used a LiteOn LBW-401S which comes bundled with Sonic MyDVD. I found that the sub program "Sonic DLA" was causing the system to automatically reboot itself when a DVD disc (a movie or a burnt one) was placed in the drive.

The drive itself seems ok just the software. By uninstalling the DLA software everything is fine.

So just have this in mind when considering a LiteOn or a Sony as they are just LiteOn's anyway however I don't know whether they come with the same bundle.

I've also used a Pioneer DVR-106 and I think it's very good. I prefer it to the LiteOn. You just need to have Direct-X 9.0b installed to fix some playback issues with created DVD's.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Andee on 08/20/03 11:35 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

The Pioneer A06/106 and the Sony Dru are the two best dvd burners out there. I personally like the Pioneer better because it is less picky with media and it costs about $50 less than the Sony. The NEC dual format burner is EXTREMELY picky with media and it won't even burn the "less expensive" ones.

It depends on what you want to burn. It takes a lot more work when burning DVD video or *cough* backing up movies that you rented from blockbusters *cough*. Burning regular files is the same thing as burning cds. Just drag and drop,

DRU-510A. It broke and other are having the same problem. Sony is aware of the problem and is fixing them as they break. I have a post on this board about it.

maximum pc did a head to head review of the sony dru-510a vs the pioneer dvr-a06(pages 18 & 19 (september issue)). the pioneer ended up winning 9 vs 8 but the pioneer had slow cd burn times but great dvd burn times.

I think thats your problem right there. BulkPaq media is made by a company called PRINCO. If you run a program called DVDinfo, it can tell you who made your media. Anyway, Princo is probably the worst dvd media manufacturing company out there. Go out and spend some money to buy some good brand media like TDK or Maxell. Do not buy verbatim, memorex or khypermedia. Your troubles should disappear. If you insist on trying out dvd media, give Lead Data, Optodisk, or BeAll a try. These all work better than princo and they cost just slightly more.

I will be owning one in the future...