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Burned a 7.4 GB movie in ten minutes...heh

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who cares how long it took, which movie is 7.4GB LOL!?

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Reply to lonelypauly

What do you mean how long?? I care! It was Troy....

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Reply to wizoforb

7.4GB? Damn, that's a long movie.

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Reply to lonelypauly

It's like two hours or so. It's a DL DVD so that how it holds all that mem. Excellent movie!

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Reply to wizoforb

what do you think of the pioneer 109 16x burner?? I hear its supposed to have less errors than the plextor...

Reply to redaetskcod

It has been many years since my Plextor drives made a coaster out of a disc.
Can't see how much more error free they could get.

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Reply to RichPLS

What Errors? lol

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Reply to wizoforb

No really....What errors are you speaking of?

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Reply to wizoforb

I did not state they had errors, but all drives, hard drives, ect have a tolerance for read/write errors, and I suppose that is what he is reffering to.
A dirty or scratched disc may play, but will take long to read because of errors encountered, and if there are too many, it won't play.
Plextors are very high quality drives, as are Pioneers.

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Reply to RichPLS

Oh I see....opps...

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Reply to wizoforb

so what in your opinion is the best burner out there...???

Reply to redaetskcod

The Plextor 716...

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Reply to RichPLS

For the money, the NEC 3520

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one thath will go wrong first will be the one that will do the most possible damage

Reply to dunklegend

I was just reading a review here on the drive...

http://www.techspot.com/reviews/ha [...] ndex.shtml

This guy suggested the LG 4163B. I was looking at that one a while ago and then read a review somewhere that the pioneer 109 was nicer than the LG. But I was just told that the pioneer 109 wasn't that great at all. And now I'm all confused...check out the review and let me know what you think... should i spend the extra money on the plextor... is it worth it... or should I go with the LG, or NEC, or Pioneer for that matter???
THanks

Reply to redaetskcod

oh yeah... I forgot to mention that I'm going to be using the burner for ripping everything.. so its got to be able to make proper backups of protected media...etc.... So now... which do you think is the best?...thanks alot...
Luke

Reply to redaetskcod

If you're undecided read the negative reviews for each drive at newegg, you're going to get a lot of opinions from different people, and sometimes it will tell you which media doesn't work well with a particular drive.
Plextor are supposed to be the best but I haven't had one of them. NEC is great, SONY has disappointed me.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one thath will go wrong first will be the one that will do the most possible damage

Reply to dunklegend

Troy is a great movie, Achilles weakness was more than his heel wasn't it. Thats a good burn rate, my Plextor is probably the best burner I've owned yet, no complaints here at all.

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Affirmative!

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Reply to 4ryan6

I was reading some of the drive review and found this drive
Samsung TS-H552U
here's the review if you want to look at it...
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/203

it looks pretty nice... what do you think?

Reply to redaetskcod

It looks pretty good, what's the price.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one thath will go wrong first will be the one that will do the most possible damage

Reply to dunklegend

The price for the samsung burner is between $50 and $60 CAD.

Reply to redaetskcod

hmm why was my post about the plextor with it being not able to burn any sheep deleted???
FYI sheeps are the specs that is used to determine how it burnes stuff like safedisk and junk... i find the site that explains all this in a sec

here is a way to test ur drives:
http://forums.makeabackup.com/viewtopic.php?t=744

and a little list of what sheep drives are:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/45121
FYI: three sheep burners are hard to come by, it is becausse of the specifications that the industrial burners are much better than your regular destop/laptop burners

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by TheHolyLancer on 06/14/05 01:23 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

Reply to theholylancer

well the thing is, unless you test it our your self no "big" trustworthy sites and magazines will test it for you (mostly because the people use these burner in a bad way) and that the only way to find one is by googling and find like 5+ hits on a same kind of drive and then buy it and get like 3 three sheep testing programs and try it out burning the sheep files onto hte disk. this is all too much work for me lol i can say that the LiteOn series are somewhat excelles in this area as that they are ripoffs of the pioneer stuff, but with little "extras", its a good place to look and if you got the $$ to try these drivers, let me know.
hint: if you live near a major store where they sell these things then use the retuen policy of the store ^.^
sometimes these tesing programs varies and thus you might get a confirm on one program and then fail with another...


quote from cdfreaks:
"I do not believe any DVD±burners exist that are 3 sheep burners. that is hard to do, and 90% of users will not need it."

this would explain the situtation of these three sheep burners as that two sheep is motsly good enough unless of course you are burning somehthing really really really really "messy"
and i think that some of these driver making companies are getting prressure from all over to NOT make any 3 sheep burners as that this techology is EVENTUALLY be the stuff that will be for the regular cds and stuff to disencourage pirating...... i think the techologies to make a 3 sheep desktop burner is here but....<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by TheHolyLancer on 06/14/05 01:48 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

Reply to theholylancer

read the eidt :P i think i explained it pretty well :)

Reply to theholylancer

well i try tommrow right now i need to somehow get that usb key from my dad.... man i should really really really really get one for myself.....

Reply to theholylancer

btw toshiba drives sucks!! mine still don't work (not burning anything), the only benefit of this is that i learned alot by tring to fix it (the sheeps are part of my investigation, though that sheep ment how good quality a driver is because toshiba sdr5272 didn't burn any of the files......)

Reply to theholylancer

Anyone have StarForce Problems with their Plextor?

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Reply to wizoforb

I've heard a lot of people saying that Plextor drives are great, but then I also see a lot of posts of people having problems with their Plextors, so which one is it then?

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Reply to dunklegend

everyone says so much about plextor... I'll Still take LiteON over plextor... Newegg + LiteON is a lethal Combo!

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Reply to Rob423

I've had no problems yet..so far

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Reply to wizoforb

I've heard Lite-on is good, but I don't care for them.

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Reply to wizoforb

What are you talking about?

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Reply to wizoforb

lmfao

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Reply to Rob423

.

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Reply to wizoforb

Nope sorry never heard that slang ebonic crap before....

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Reply to wizoforb

no ty

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