Reviews of CD & DVD Drives

The beginning of this year, I was browsing the Newegg.com online store and stumbled upon this drive, the Sony DW-D22A DVD DL+/-RW. And at the time it was selling for only $65.00 plus shipping and tax. So I jumped on it and got this as soon as I could; even though I could have waited another week and saved another $10. But I was still happy with the deal I got. I mostly use this drive to copy (I think backup is the better word) my movie collection; I do this to share it with my family....

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Two weeks ago, a client of mine came to me and said that he wants a faster DVD burner, so I went to the Newegg.com online store and found this Sony DRU-810A DVD DL+/-RW burner selling for about $70. And at the time it was selling for only $65.00 plus shipping and tax. I showed it to my client and he excitedly said he wanted to get this one. So I jumped right on it and placed the order. My client said that he will mostly use this drive to backup his movie collection and documents...

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I initially bought this Sony DRU-510A DVD burner to backup my private DVD collections. But after I bought it I found out that I could not burn copyrighted DVD’s. Well I didn't return it then, just kept if for software, documents, and other backups...

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A month ago I was wondering around CompUSA and I saw this I/O Magic LightScribe DVD?RW Dual Layer Burner. And at the time it was...

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Having just bought a Toshiba HD LCD with DVI input I thought I would try one of these at this very low price from Amazon. I chose it over the similar Samsung upscaling DVD player because my Toshiba TV remote will work the DVD too.

This is a very compact and slimline model and build quality is fair at this price point. Nowhere as well made as my (£200) Panasonic DVD recorder though. Remote is cheap feeling but works well.

"With all the Dual Layer DVD drives on the market, it's hard to keep up with them. Hot on the heels of the SOHW-1633s comes LiteOn's new SOHW-1673S.

Let's have a look shall we?"

"Dual-Layer writing capabilities have been around for the past year and we are finally starting to see the price of these DVD writers decline to more affordable levels. Case in point: Samsung’s new WriteMaster TS-H552 Dual Layer DVD writer can write Dual Layer DVD’s at a blazing 5x write time, yet the drive costs under $100 dollars and comes with a very tempting software package. Sony and Plextor both offer dual layer capable drives with 4X write times, so it looks like Samsung may have the jump on the competition."

"Today we step aside from the usual motherboard or processor review and take a look at two of the latest DVD burners to emerge from two large Taiwanese companies, ASUS and Gigabyte. Both drives support DVD burning at 16x and both support Dual Layer burning. If you're on the market for a new DVD burner, one of these might be what you're looking for."

"The NEC ND-3520A also excel in 16x DVD+R and 48x CD-R writing, and it is able to overspeed most 8x & 4x media to 12x & 8x respectively. Even with such high speed writing and reading, this drive is extremely quiet and I was wondering if the disc really spins during DVD-Video playback. It is definitely one of the most quiet burner I have ever seen."