I have two computers. one with a samsung dvd burner which has servied me loyally thru some 1k burns and a litey shw-16096s which, when combined with ty02s give absolutely excellent burn quality---consistent 95-100 on nero speed check. I bought a sony DRX 830U external and when I burned "A touch of frost" all I got were coasters per nero check. terrible quality. and with Ty02, sony 16x and verbatim 8x. I did the same dvd with my trusty litey 160p6x and the quality was 95. so-----I did Rome, season two, disk one on the sony 830U.(used dvd shrink again, forgot to tell you that). burned ok and when i did the nero quality test, got a 90. better than "a touch of frost, but still not as good as the litey burns I am used to. My question is: is this the best I can expect from the sony 830u external? or am I doing something wrong here? I can expect bad burning from the samsung as it has gone thru a whole lot of burns, but a new sony should burn better quality than what I have experienced, I should think. I am using Nero 7 express to burn with DVD Fab Decrypter HD to decrypt and DVD shrink to compress and then burn with nero 7. any thoughts?
I have a Sony DRU-800A burner which just plain sucks. It's actually a re-badged Lite-On burner which gives me better results now that I have cross-flashed it with Lite-On firmware. The Sony cost me about $115.00 and the comparable Lite-On burner would have cost half that at the most at that time (2 years ago). I've found that I get much better results with the $35.00 Benq burner I bought as a replacement for the $115.00 Sony DRU-800A burner. I also get better results with the 2 Lite-On burners I have purchased within the last year.
