kirky(Competent) posted this on Thursday, 15th January 2004, 17:28
Hi,
I got me self a btc dual dvd writer and was wondering what is the best dvd-r/+r i could use in the drive for backing up my dvd collection?. Any help would be grateful.
Kirky
RE: help with BTC dual writer
6(SIC)6(Competent) posted this on Thursday, 15th January 2004, 22:27
Hi
I had one of these for about a week and had more coasters than anything else, I quickly replaced it with a Pioneer 106 and have had no problems since. I tried Bulkpaq Orange, Datawrite Red and Orange Ritek discs and had problems with all of them. My advice is take it back to where you got it from and buy yourself a 106 its worth the extra few £.
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Mike F(Harmless) posted this on Monday, 16th February 2004, 22:57
>:( I have had two of these drives and they are junk. The first one skipped like mad with CDs and I suffered endless error messages when trying to burn DVDs. Eventually I got the the store to swap it for another one. At first it seemed to work but I still ended up with dud DVDs. I thought it was because it was fussy about which media I used and so I bought several different brands and tried them. But it still works erratically. Sometimes it works - sometimes it doesn`t. I have now wasted so much money on DVD media I could have bought a Sony multiwrite drive. The strange thing is when you look on review sites people will admit it doesn`t work and still give it five stars. It is as if they are so pleased with getting a bargain that they don`t care. One guy admitted he had ended up with eight coasters and the supplied software didn`t work but gave it five stars - at around £2.50 a time that means he had wasted £20 on blank DVDs and thought it was a bargain! I think he must work for The Computer Store.Cut your losses and buy something else.
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RE: help with BTC dual writer
kbabar(Mostly Harmless) posted this on Monday, 16th February 2004, 23:54
Hi I have got sony dual writer and i picked some real bargain from pc world(dvd+rw £15 for 25) this offer has now finished sorry!!. I have nearly backed my 30 dvds using nero6, dvd shrink 3.1 and sony dual writer and i never had to rewite any disc again. so 100%. although i am using +rw where you dont have a chance to waste any disc but still a credit to shrink and sony writer, never had to rewrite any disc again. I would sugest you get dvd rw instead of dvdr so you dont have to waste any discs.
