I'm considering buying a DVD burner now that the price is not too ridiculous. I would be using the drive primarily to burn MPEG's, for playback on a set-top DVD player, (I'm tired of watching multi-disc SVCD / CVD's).
My question is, what drive would you recommend & why? What drive would you avoid & why? Do you feel that it's important to choose a drive that supports writing in both the +RW & -RW format?
Thanks,
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as far as i know there isnt a standard for dvd recording yet. Hence the fat we have dvd+rw and dvd-rw. i would actually wait and see which one becomes standard because if you buy into the wrong one then you may have to shell out for a new dvd recorder.
the safest bet (right now) would be to go for a dvd recorder that supports both standards, dvd-rw and dvd+rw. Also there isnt any difference between the prices of the media.
I would wait for the prices to go down on the combo burners.
I know for a fact that my DVD player (non PC) will not play the +R, +RW formats, so with that knowledge in hand I am waitng for the combo burner prices to go down before I purchase one. If you have a non PC DVD player check your user manual.
I just bought myself a Lite-On CDrw despite the reviews it got. its definitely only a cdrw and NOT a dual purpose drive, because it is rather noisey. the CD tray even sounds pretty sad. OTOH, its only about $41 bucks, its NEVER *knocks on wood* burned a bad CD, and will burn a FULL CD in under 4 minutes. i can stand a little bit of noise for that price, and that performance. this thing burns 48X cdrw's at 52x, and will way overburn CDs. ive fit 740mb on a 700mb CD. after owning an iomega zipCD i would never give up my lite on.
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