CD/DVD Burner for Small Office

I work in a small office -- we have about 10 Dell desktop computers for
staff use. The computers are a few years old and there's no chance of
replacing them any time soon. None of the computers has even a CD
burner, much less a DVD burner. They do have CD drives, read-only.
One of the computers -- ONE -- has a DVD drive, read-only. They're P-4
1.5 GHz, 512 GB RAM.

Occasionally we receive in the mail a work-related DVD we'd like to
view, or we receive data on a DVD, and we end up bumping from her desk
the poor woman who has the only DVD drive in the office. Also,
occasionally, we'd like to burn a CD or DVD. Or, as happened
yesterday, we receive a CD burned by someone who doesn't know what he's
doing and we discover the CD hasn't been finalized. None of our drives
would read it. I had to take the disk home overnight and finalize it
on my personal computer.

So I want to propose to the office manager that we invest in at least
one DVD burner for the office. And if the cost isn't prohibitive,
perhaps we can purchase five or six for key people.

I found this deal at NewEgg:

http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Ca...sp?Category=10

$28.99 is a pretty good price. I think NEC is a good brand --
dependable hardware. But apparently these drives don't come with
software -- they're OEM. If they do come with software, they don't
mention it in the NewEgg ad. And price really is a concern here. So
here's my question:

Can anybody recommend a good deal -- drive price in the $30 range --
that includes decent CD/DVD burning software? Or can you recommend
some freeware CD/DVD burning software that would play nicely with the
NEC drive?

Also, I noticed on that NewEgg page a retail LiteOn drive for $33.25.
It comes with Nero and PowerDVD, though I can't tell whether they are
full versions or stripped down. Also, I am suspicious of the LiteOn
brand. Are LiteOn drives dependable? Would you recommend them for
office use? It would be light use -- we need their capability only
occasionally.

Other recommendations? Thanks.

Bill Anderson

billanderson@my-deja.com

wrote:
> I work in a small office -- we have about 10 Dell desktop computers for
> staff use. The computers are a few years old and there's no chance of
> replacing them any time soon. None of the computers has even a CD
> burner, much less a DVD burner. They do have CD drives, read-only.
> One of the computers -- ONE -- has a DVD drive, read-only. They're P-4
> 1.5 GHz, 512 GB RAM.
>
> Occasionally we receive in the mail a work-related DVD we'd like to
> view, or we receive data on a DVD, and we end up bumping from her desk
> the poor woman who has the only DVD drive in the office. Also,
> occasionally, we'd like to burn a CD or DVD. Or, as happened
> yesterday, we receive a CD burned by someone who doesn't know what he's
> doing and we discover the CD hasn't been finalized. None of our drives
> would read it. I had to take the disk home overnight and finalize it
> on my personal computer.
>
> So I want to propose to the office manager that we invest in at least
> one DVD burner for the office. And if the cost isn't prohibitive,
> perhaps we can purchase five or six for key people.
>
> I found this deal at NewEgg:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Ca...sp?Category=10
>
> $28.99 is a pretty good price. I think NEC is a good brand --
> dependable hardware. But apparently these drives don't come with
> software -- they're OEM. If they do come with software, they don't
> mention it in the NewEgg ad. And price really is a concern here. So
> here's my question:
>
> Can anybody recommend a good deal -- drive price in the $30 range --
> that includes decent CD/DVD burning software? Or can you recommend
> some freeware CD/DVD burning software that would play nicely with the
> NEC drive?
>
> Also, I noticed on that NewEgg page a retail LiteOn drive for $33.25.
> It comes with Nero and PowerDVD, though I can't tell whether they are
> full versions or stripped down. Also, I am suspicious of the LiteOn
> brand. Are LiteOn drives dependable? Would you recommend them for
> office use? It would be light use -- we need their capability only
> occasionally.
>
> Other recommendations? Thanks.
>
> Bill Anderson

For their cd-rw burners LiteOn are ok. DeepBurner is a good freeware
cd/dvd burning program that I use myself. Personally I'd pick the
LiteOn DVD burner over the NEC one.

littlejoeflub@yahoo.com

wrote:
> wrote:
>> I work in a small office -- we have about 10 Dell desktop computers for
>> staff use. The computers are a few years old and there's no chance of
>> replacing them any time soon. None of the computers has even a CD
>> burner, much less a DVD burner. They do have CD drives, read-only.
>> One of the computers -- ONE -- has a DVD drive, read-only. They're P-4
>> 1.5 GHz, 512 GB RAM.
>>
>> Occasionally we receive in the mail a work-related DVD we'd like to
>> view, or we receive data on a DVD, and we end up bumping from her desk
>> the poor woman who has the only DVD drive in the office. Also,
>> occasionally, we'd like to burn a CD or DVD. Or, as happened
>> yesterday, we receive a CD burned by someone who doesn't know what he's
>> doing and we discover the CD hasn't been finalized. None of our drives
>> would read it. I had to take the disk home overnight and finalize it
>> on my personal computer.
>>
>> So I want to propose to the office manager that we invest in at least
>> one DVD burner for the office. And if the cost isn't prohibitive,
>> perhaps we can purchase five or six for key people.
>>
>> I found this deal at NewEgg:
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Ca...sp?Category=10
>>
>> $28.99 is a pretty good price. I think NEC is a good brand --
>> dependable hardware. But apparently these drives don't come with
>> software -- they're OEM. If they do come with software, they don't
>> mention it in the NewEgg ad. And price really is a concern here. So
>> here's my question:
>>
>> Can anybody recommend a good deal -- drive price in the $30 range --
>> that includes decent CD/DVD burning software? Or can you recommend
>> some freeware CD/DVD burning software that would play nicely with the
>> NEC drive?
>>
>> Also, I noticed on that NewEgg page a retail LiteOn drive for $33.25.
>> It comes with Nero and PowerDVD, though I can't tell whether they are
>> full versions or stripped down. Also, I am suspicious of the LiteOn
>> brand. Are LiteOn drives dependable? Would you recommend them for
>> office use? It would be light use -- we need their capability only
>> occasionally.
>>
>> Other recommendations? Thanks.
>>
>> Bill Anderson
>
> For their cd-rw burners LiteOn are ok. DeepBurner is a good freeware
> cd/dvd burning program that I use myself. Personally I'd pick the
> LiteOn DVD burner over the NEC one.
>
I used LiteOn DVD and CD burners for years. Great product.

pavels

I would simply suggest to your office manager that you purchase whatever
unit is on sale that week at Staples, BestBuy, CompUSA etc. And
different brands may be manufactured by different manufacturers and
relabled for sale.

Ken

wrote:
> I work in a small office -- we have about 10 Dell desktop computers for
> staff use. The computers are a few years old and there's no chance of
> replacing them any time soon. None of the computers has even a CD
> burner, much less a DVD burner. They do have CD drives, read-only.
> One of the computers -- ONE -- has a DVD drive, read-only. They're P-4
> 1.5 GHz, 512 GB RAM.
>
> Occasionally we receive in the mail a work-related DVD we'd like to
> view, or we receive data on a DVD, and we end up bumping from her desk
> the poor woman who has the only DVD drive in the office. Also,
> occasionally, we'd like to burn a CD or DVD. Or, as happened
> yesterday, we receive a CD burned by someone who doesn't know what he's
> doing and we discover the CD hasn't been finalized. None of our drives
> would read it. I had to take the disk home overnight and finalize it
> on my personal computer.
>
> So I want to propose to the office manager that we invest in at least
> one DVD burner for the office. And if the cost isn't prohibitive,
> perhaps we can purchase five or six for key people.
>
> I found this deal at NewEgg:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Ca...sp?Category=10
>
> $28.99 is a pretty good price. I think NEC is a good brand --
> dependable hardware. But apparently these drives don't come with
> software -- they're OEM. If they do come with software, they don't
> mention it in the NewEgg ad. And price really is a concern here. So
> here's my question:
>
> Can anybody recommend a good deal -- drive price in the $30 range --
> that includes decent CD/DVD burning software? Or can you recommend
> some freeware CD/DVD burning software that would play nicely with the
> NEC drive?
>
> Also, I noticed on that NewEgg page a retail LiteOn drive for $33.25.
> It comes with Nero and PowerDVD, though I can't tell whether they are
> full versions or stripped down. Also, I am suspicious of the LiteOn
> brand. Are LiteOn drives dependable? Would you recommend them for
> office use? It would be light use -- we need their capability only
> occasionally.
>
> Other recommendations? Thanks.
>
> Bill Anderson
>

Kenneth J. Harris

What about a standalone drive. USB attached. Can be moved to where ever it
is needed.
Prices are not that bad now.
My 2c

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>I work in a small office -- we have about 10 Dell desktop computers for
> staff use. The computers are a few years old and there's no chance of
> replacing them any time soon. None of the computers has even a CD
> burner, much less a DVD burner. They do have CD drives, read-only.
> One of the computers -- ONE -- has a DVD drive, read-only. They're P-4
> 1.5 GHz, 512 GB RAM.
>
> Occasionally we receive in the mail a work-related DVD we'd like to
> view, or we receive data on a DVD, and we end up bumping from her desk
> the poor woman who has the only DVD drive in the office. Also,
> occasionally, we'd like to burn a CD or DVD. Or, as happened
> yesterday, we receive a CD burned by someone who doesn't know what he's
> doing and we discover the CD hasn't been finalized. None of our drives
> would read it. I had to take the disk home overnight and finalize it
> on my personal computer.
>
> So I want to propose to the office manager that we invest in at least
> one DVD burner for the office. And if the cost isn't prohibitive,
> perhaps we can purchase five or six for key people.
>
> I found this deal at NewEgg:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Ca...sp?Category=10
>
> $28.99 is a pretty good price. I think NEC is a good brand --
> dependable hardware. But apparently these drives don't come with
> software -- they're OEM. If they do come with software, they don't
> mention it in the NewEgg ad. And price really is a concern here. So
> here's my question:
>
> Can anybody recommend a good deal -- drive price in the $30 range --
> that includes decent CD/DVD burning software? Or can you recommend
> some freeware CD/DVD burning software that would play nicely with the
> NEC drive?
>
> Also, I noticed on that NewEgg page a retail LiteOn drive for $33.25.
> It comes with Nero and PowerDVD, though I can't tell whether they are
> full versions or stripped down. Also, I am suspicious of the LiteOn
> brand. Are LiteOn drives dependable? Would you recommend them for
> office use? It would be light use -- we need their capability only
> occasionally.
>
> Other recommendations? Thanks.
>
> Bill Anderson
>

Bill

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:12:19 GMT, pavels <> wrote:

> wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> I work in a small office -- we have about 10 Dell desktop computers for
>>> staff use. The computers are a few years old and there's no chance of
>>> replacing them any time soon. None of the computers has even a CD
>>> burner, much less a DVD burner. They do have CD drives, read-only.
>>> One of the computers -- ONE -- has a DVD drive, read-only. They're P-4
>>> 1.5 GHz, 512 GB RAM.
>>>
>>> Occasionally we receive in the mail a work-related DVD we'd like to
>>> view, or we receive data on a DVD, and we end up bumping from her desk
>>> the poor woman who has the only DVD drive in the office. Also,
>>> occasionally, we'd like to burn a CD or DVD. Or, as happened
>>> yesterday, we receive a CD burned by someone who doesn't know what he's
>>> doing and we discover the CD hasn't been finalized. None of our drives
>>> would read it. I had to take the disk home overnight and finalize it
>>> on my personal computer.
>>>
>>> So I want to propose to the office manager that we invest in at least
>>> one DVD burner for the office. And if the cost isn't prohibitive,
>>> perhaps we can purchase five or six for key people.
>>>
>>> I found this deal at NewEgg:
>>>
>>> http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Ca...sp?Category=10
>>>
>>> $28.99 is a pretty good price. I think NEC is a good brand --
>>> dependable hardware. But apparently these drives don't come with
>>> software -- they're OEM. If they do come with software, they don't
>>> mention it in the NewEgg ad. And price really is a concern here. So
>>> here's my question:
>>>
>>> Can anybody recommend a good deal -- drive price in the $30 range --
>>> that includes decent CD/DVD burning software? Or can you recommend
>>> some freeware CD/DVD burning software that would play nicely with the
>>> NEC drive?
>>>
>>> Also, I noticed on that NewEgg page a retail LiteOn drive for $33.25.
>>> It comes with Nero and PowerDVD, though I can't tell whether they are
>>> full versions or stripped down. Also, I am suspicious of the LiteOn
>>> brand. Are LiteOn drives dependable? Would you recommend them for
>>> office use? It would be light use -- we need their capability only
>>> occasionally.
>>>
>>> Other recommendations? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Bill Anderson
>>
>> For their cd-rw burners LiteOn are ok. DeepBurner is a good freeware
>> cd/dvd burning program that I use myself. Personally I'd pick the
>> LiteOn DVD burner over the NEC one.
>>
>I used LiteOn DVD and CD burners for years. Great product.
Lite-on makes nice equipment.
If you are running Windows XP, it has built-in burning software that
works fine. As for playing DVD movies I believe Windows Media player
will with some plug-ins.

John C