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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: bat69 on January 14, 2003, 10:18

Title: Fancy a new CD-RW?
Post by: bat69 on January 14, 2003, 10:18

HERE (http://www.soundcardcentral.com/reviews/storage/plextor/page1.htm) is a review of the Plextor 48x unit and pits it against the LiteOn equivalent

Title: Re:Fancy a new CD-RW?
Post by: DualBoy on January 17, 2003, 03:57

I dont trust that review at all. Just seems wrong. Lite-on doing better than a plextor is just pure wrong.

Title: Re:Fancy a new CD-RW?
Post by: DualBoy on January 17, 2003, 04:07

Here are some more reviews: The second one has alot of other higher end drives.
Personally I buy the cheap burners dont need a crazy yamaha or plextor. But if its
for the office we usually buy the top quality stuff when it comes to backup devices.

here (http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/Drives/plex_48x_cdr.shtml)
Another (http://www.cdrlabs.com/reviews/index.php?reviewid=148&page=Performance)

Title: Re:Fancy a new CD-RW?
Post by: bat69 on January 17, 2003, 10:36

Thanks DB

I think your logic is sound .. and most home puters will suffice with something along the lines of a LiteOn drive, they're cheap and deliver good performance for what the home user would require. And given their pricing, its not going to break the bank to replace at a later date.

Only thing I'm not happy about is the inability to make the LiteOn DVD I've got region free. I buy DVDs from Canada (hey hey DB) due to price and would like to use them on my PC .... but everything I've tried so far has failed  :-";"xx

Title: Re:Fancy a new CD-RW?
Post by: TR on January 17, 2003, 11:26

Good Morning Bat  ;D

On XP, correct me if I'm wrong and Im having trouble in putting what I want to say in words, but a picture tells a thousand words.

Hook  8)

Title: Re:Fancy a new CD-RW?
Post by: bat69 on January 17, 2003, 12:41

You are given 5 attempts to change region, after that the drive is locked. The region I want is 0 this means it isn't locked to any one region and will play all.