Recommendations for a DVD burner

Looking at adding another one to my current Pioneer 109,
mainly so I have one in each of the main PCs.

Makes sense to have more than one brand/model.

I only care about what will burn almost any media, even
cheap and nasty media. I dont care much about burn
speeds, what I care about is a reliable burn on any
media without having to fart around doing test burns.

So that basically means a brand/model that has
decent firmware support into the future, and decent
performance with the current firmware too.

I mostly burn RWs, but do care about the R performance too.

What do people like currently, particularly
those with the same criteria ?

Rod Speed

Rod Speed wrote:
> Looking at adding another one to my current Pioneer 109,
> mainly so I have one in each of the main PCs.
>
> Makes sense to have more than one brand/model.
>
> I only care about what will burn almost any media, even
> cheap and nasty media. I dont care much about burn
> speeds, what I care about is a reliable burn on any
> media without having to fart around doing test burns.
>
> So that basically means a brand/model that has
> decent firmware support into the future, and decent
> performance with the current firmware too.
>
> I mostly burn RWs, but do care about the R performance too.
>
> What do people like currently, particularly
> those with the same criteria ?
>
>
>

LG GSA 4167
Even does DVDRAM

Ian Ozenthroat <> wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Looking at adding another one to my current Pioneer 109,
>> mainly so I have one in each of the main PCs.
>>
>> Makes sense to have more than one brand/model.
>>
>> I only care about what will burn almost any media, even
>> cheap and nasty media. I dont care much about burn
>> speeds, what I care about is a reliable burn on any
>> media without having to fart around doing test burns.
>>
>> So that basically means a brand/model that has
>> decent firmware support into the future, and decent
>> performance with the current firmware too.
>>
>> I mostly burn RWs, but do care about the R performance too.
>>
>> What do people like currently, particularly
>> those with the same criteria ?
>>
>>
>>
>
> LG GSA 4167
> Even does DVDRAM

Yeah, that was at the top of my list.

What about the replacement H10A ?

Ian Ozenthroat <> wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Looking at adding another one to my current Pioneer 109,
>> mainly so I have one in each of the main PCs.
>>
>> Makes sense to have more than one brand/model.
>>
>> I only care about what will burn almost any media, even
>> cheap and nasty media. I dont care much about burn
>> speeds, what I care about is a reliable burn on any
>> media without having to fart around doing test burns.
>>
>> So that basically means a brand/model that has
>> decent firmware support into the future, and decent
>> performance with the current firmware too.
>>
>> I mostly burn RWs, but do care about the R performance too.
>>
>> What do people like currently, particularly
>> those with the same criteria ?
>>
>>
>>
>
> LG GSA 4167
> Even does DVDRAM

What do you think about the videohelp comment that
the dual layer laser burns out in a very few burns ?
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdwriters....t=2 #comments
While I dont burn DL much, that may well change if they get cheap enough.

Guess it makes some sense to go with the known 4167b rather
than the newer HA10A which is much less of a known quantity too.

IMHO, reliable burns is all about NOT burning to cheal and nasty
media....why would anyone even bother with crap media?


"Rod Speed" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Looking at adding another one to my current Pioneer 109,
> mainly so I have one in each of the main PCs.
>
> Makes sense to have more than one brand/model.
>
> I only care about what will burn almost any media, even
> cheap and nasty media. I dont care much about burn
> speeds, what I care about is a reliable burn on any
> media without having to fart around doing test burns.
>
> So that basically means a brand/model that has
> decent firmware support into the future, and decent
> performance with the current firmware too.
>
> I mostly burn RWs, but do care about the R performance too.
>
> What do people like currently, particularly
> those with the same criteria ?
>
>
>

Rod Speed committed to the eternal aether...:

> Looking at adding another one to my current Pioneer 109,
> mainly so I have one in each of the main PCs.
>
> Makes sense to have more than one brand/model.
>
> I only care about what will burn almost any media, even
> cheap and nasty media. I dont care much about burn
> speeds, what I care about is a reliable burn on any
> media without having to fart around doing test burns.
>
> So that basically means a brand/model that has
> decent firmware support into the future, and decent
> performance with the current firmware too.
>
> I mostly burn RWs, but do care about the R performance too.
>
> What do people like currently, particularly
> those with the same criteria ?

I have a sony dru-710a and a poineer (something). The sony is very noisy
when spinning, the poineer is much quieter (but still not quiet).

Biz <> wrote

> IMHO, reliable burns is all about NOT burning to cheal and nasty
> media....why would anyone even bother with crap media?

I didnt mean it like that. I meant that I want to be able to buy
the decent but cheap media and not have to fart around with
a burner thats fussy about the media it will burn reliably.


> "Rod Speed" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Looking at adding another one to my current Pioneer 109,
>> mainly so I have one in each of the main PCs.
>>
>> Makes sense to have more than one brand/model.
>>
>> I only care about what will burn almost any media, even
>> cheap and nasty media. I dont care much about burn
>> speeds, what I care about is a reliable burn on any
>> media without having to fart around doing test burns.
>>
>> So that basically means a brand/model that has
>> decent firmware support into the future, and decent
>> performance with the current firmware too.
>>
>> I mostly burn RWs, but do care about the R performance too.
>>
>> What do people like currently, particularly
>> those with the same criteria ?

Ian Ozenthroat wrote:

> LG GSA 4167
> Even does DVDRAM

Second that. Use one for backups onto DVD+RW media. Utterly reliable so
far.

>> IMHO, reliable burns is all about NOT burning to cheal and nasty
>> media....why would anyone even bother with crap media?
>
> I didnt mean it like that. I meant that I want to be able to buy
> the decent but cheap media and not have to fart around with
> a burner thats fussy about the media it will burn reliably.

That is a problem for me. Whenever I find a decent and cheap media, it
becomes nasty on a next purchase of the same brand, a few months later. I
guess, it wasn't decent enough...

Peter wrote on [Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:30:46 -0400]:
>>> IMHO, reliable burns is all about NOT burning to cheal and nasty
>>> media....why would anyone even bother with crap media?
>>
>> I didnt mean it like that. I meant that I want to be able to buy
>> the decent but cheap media and not have to fart around with
>> a burner thats fussy about the media it will burn reliably.
>
> That is a problem for me. Whenever I find a decent and cheap media, it
> becomes nasty on a next purchase of the same brand, a few months later. I
> guess, it wasn't decent enough...

It's not just the brand, but the actual manufacturer. Often the brand
buys from the manuf. on spec at bulk rates then goes to another when the
next bid process comes up.