I curently have a NEC ND-2510A. wont rip dvd in dvd shrink over 4x and can not read over small scratches. (thanks 2 family) my xbox v1.0 can read most the scratched dvds but to ftp is a pain. Heres the Drives i May get please help with the folowing questions: Drives i am thinking about getting NEC ND-3520A BK Sony DW-D26A BLK Pioneer DVR-109 BK Questions: 1.Can it read scratched DVDS and how bad are the scratched DVDs. 2.How fast can DVD Shink Read it? 3.Does it like Princo A Grade 4x dvd media (i have 150 dvd-rs setting here cant throw em out lol) 4.Whats the burn time at 16x? please help
It won't matter the drive or program if the dvd is badly scratched. Most DVD Burners rip at 2x, you can always look to unlock the drive to rip faster (doing this will void your warranty) That media sucks. It will burn to it, problem isn't the burner. Will your players like Princo? Ummm ... yea you can I threw out 100 of them. WHY!!!! You shouldn't burn at 16x. But if you must, I believe it's around 8-10 minutes for a single layer blank.
My xbox and PS2 are good with Princos. I mean light little scratches i mean my xbox can read em but i need a dvd burner that can
princo's have to the worse cd/dvd's humanly made i am very suprised you have not had coasters by the dozen trying to do finiky backups like xbox and ps2 <-they are the worst to copy at the very least you would errors galore. Ritec or verbatim no errors, no coasters peace of mind they are really cheap so for the difference in price pay the extra few cents did you ever consider adding plextor px-716a to your writer list?
Hey all, A quick heads up I just bought a Memorex DL external burner and love it. It's fast, burns well at 8x no coasters at all. Plus it comes with Nero 6 wich rocks. I know that lots of you don't believe in external drives but it's lightening fast, portable, and includes nero 6. Also it has the fastest burning at 16x although I don't have the media for more than 8x. Also Dual layer burning at 4x wow. Hope this helps, Dissones4u
@ dustin378: The nec3520 is an excellent burner. You can get a good price at Newegg for $50 or so. NEC has an official firmware site and there is an unofficial Liggy and Dees firmware that will unlock the rip. @ ou814me: I've read good reviews on the external memorex burner. I believe it is a rebadged NEC 3500 which are excellent. By the way, how fast does it rip?
The ripping/encoding is done on the fly so I'd say that the software (Nero 6) way lags down the burn speed due to the burning from temp files rather then from saved files. Since I don't save to HD it's hard to guesstimate burn times but it burns DL media at a speed of 4x which is top rate; it burns SL media at a rate of 16x which again is top rate. I stay with 8x for SL media since the 16x media was considerably more expensive. Just guessing I'd say that it would burn a 4.7 GB disk in roughly 6 minutes. Later, Dissones4u
