DVD burner.... at good price

[Binninn]

Hello you guys.

At some danish site I found DVD burner with all the req for Good burner

Multi-format DVD og CD-Burner. Can burn DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, CD-RW, CD-R.

Spec
4x DVD+R, 2,4 DVD+RW, 4x DVD-R, 2x DVD-RW / 16x CD-R, 10x CD-RW.

And the price is good to... only 220$

I am thinking about buying it ...Please let me know if you have any info regarding this Brand and its quality..

Thanks Guys





http://www.prc-data.dk/ProduktFrame....uktid=28542010

[DoG]

It looks like a great burner, NEC have been around for quite a while so it should be decent quality as well. The price converts to around £135 GBP wich is quite honestly dirt cheap! Around £170 GBP is the best i have seen for the OEM version of this writer

[Alpine]

Anyone can Explain what is the diffence between

DVD+R and DVD-R

What does the '' + '' or the '' - '' ??!

[billybob3]

+ and - are just different formats of the disc. Some say that one is faster then the other. Most burners are "-", but the Apple SuperDrives are "+"...I think anyways, maybe I have that back words. :-D

[DoG]

Nope, you got it the right way round

[billybob3]

OH good, and one other thing. That DVD burner that you are looking at, it's a great price! And NEC is a great brand, they're monitors are great. I would buy it...if I had a job, and money. BUT i'm only 16, and living off of the parents!

[SlickVic78]

Quote:

Originally posted by Alpine@Jun 4 2003, 06:11 PM
Anyone can Explain what is the diffence between

DVD+R and DVD-R

What does the '' + '' or the '' - '' ??!

Hey Alpine,

You may want to check out this site for some info on the difference between the 2 formats...

hxxp://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvd

A simple google search will bring up a ton of sites that go into detail.

Hope this helps,
-SlickVic78

[BearCat]

Quote:

Originally posted by DoG@Jun 5 2003, 01:39 AM
Nope, you got it the right way round

Nope....
you BOTH have it the wrong way around,
Apple Superdrive is using DVD-R,
and is "normally" based on Pioneer A04/A05 ( 2X / 4X max ).

[DoG]

So you are saying that most DVD R's are +R? DVD-R is the most comnmonly used format, until fairly recently you couldnt get a +R drive to save your life. DVD-R was the first instroduced format, hence it is still the most commonly used. The part about the superdrive may have been incorrect but the question about the difference between +R & -R was right, it's simply a difference in the format of the disks. And i honestly couldnt see the benefit of having a +R drive over a -R drive, it didnt burn any faster and the disks cost more.

[BearCat]

Quote:

Originally posted by DoG@Jun 17 2003, 03:27 PM
So you are saying that most DVD R's are +R?

Nope, the other way around
I was just correcting about the Apple one, and those are based on the Pioneer A04 ( 2x ) and the newer A05 ( 4x ).

In the market, I would say that most of the ones who *has* been sold, are -R.
In a writeup, those seems to be the "most" compatible ones, regarding stanalone equipment, like DVD players.
Something like 95% compatibillity versus 80% for the +R.

Regarding speed, the -R was introduced as a 1x in the spec's, then Pioneer offerd 2x on certain medias they verified as compatible.
The +R came as a 2,4x giving them a slightly advance in speed, but now both formats are offerd as 4x.

If you want to make _sure_ your home-movies can be played in all standalones, you might opt for a combo, that supports both + and -.
Right now, the prize of medias seems to be getting close, but the - has so far, been a bit cheaper than the +

Regarding this NEC, its a good prize, for a good burner
It did very well in a recent test, made by the norwegian magazine PWWorld ( www.pcworld.no )
And with support of both + and - it should be a safe choice.