Epinions Recent Content for CD and DVD Burners

Got a Netbook? You need this!

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:08:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author unheimlich - I probably never would have picked up the LG SLIM External DVD burner/player if BestBuy hadn't been offering a nice bundle discount for peripherals when I bought an eePC netbook for my wife. There are myriad uses for a portable CD/DVD player but I...

BD Recorders are Coming Down. LG is First!

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:44:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nad_masters - With BluRay recorders coming down in price, I decided to pick one up when NewEgg was offering one for $180 with free shipping. They also threw in a free Verbatim 25GB BD-R disc along with the purchase! I thought that was a nice touch. At this price,...

Very good high quality product

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:51:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cuesent - I am really amazed with the speed of Sony (DRU-190A) DVD-RAM Burner. And had adviced many to go with this product. Very reliable and very compatible...

Say Goodbye to Labels and Just Burn, Flip, Burn Baby!

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:46:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vemartin - I burn a lot of CD's, both for myself and for clients. Most of the CD's I burn for myself are personal in nature (data, and or music), but those I burn for clients are professional; e.g. patches, software updates, virus signatures, structured...

Sony DRU-190A DVD±RW Internal ATAPI/EIDE Recordable DVD Drive

Tue, 19 May 2009 09:31:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Gr8ful - A few months back I built a new gaming system based on the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor and Windows Vista Ultimate x64 operating system. I had originally purchased this drive for that system but realized afterward that there are no EIDE/ATA...

A Solid Double-Layer Burner With Nero Basic Included

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:43:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author truegenius - It's been several years since I bought an external DVD burner. My last unit, bought in 2005, was a Memorex device that was supposed to be able to hit 8X speeds on double layer discs. Unfortunately, at the time the unit was available, most of...

Initially worth trying.

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:06:35 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author ready2roll - I am in agreement with 'msarr4....Definitely clueless on which DVD Burner to choose. Sony DRU840A appeared to offer a wide array of uses, incuding the Nero 7 Essentials software.After reading 'msarr4....' review, I rechecked the box and...

Excellent Drive, Poor Software

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:33:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ginsumaster - Drive is excellent. Very fast. Compared w/ my other DVD burners: Plextor PX-850SA, PX-712SA, Sony DRU-830A, DW-G120A, LG GSA-E40L, PBDS DH-16W1S, etc., it is second only to my (expensive) Plextor PX-850SA.Reliable burns on good DVDs...

Average Quality

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:25:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ginsumaster - Drive is of good quality and only average speed. Only thing outstanding is DVD burn quality at slower (8-12x) speeds.Biggest problem w/ this drive is DVD rip speed. It is very slow, averaging 30 min/DVD. Compared w/ my 12 other...

LG Blu-Ray disc drive: Watch beautiful Blu-Ray movies on your computer

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:21:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yakkowarner - I have been having problems with my disk drives since I replaced my motherboard a year ago. My hard drives worked but my 2 CD writers did not work nor did my external DVD writer. So I decided to buy something that was internal (due to costs)...

Attractive SATA Drive, but unreliable.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:02:26 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author giri09 - I've owned four of these CD/DVD burners in the last year, and three of them have gone bad. The first two went bad within the warranty period and I was able to exchange them through newegg.com and chiefvalue.com However, out of the two replacements, one...

A handy addition for PC flexibility

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:43:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ncphototrekker - The Memorex CD-RX Burner was purchased about two years ago for an Windows XP system that did not have CD burning capabilities. To be perfectly honest, I thought that this was going to be a band-aid until I could afford to get a new...

Still have HD-DVDs?

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:13:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nad_masters - It's hard to write that title as if HD-DVD is dead. I mean they are still being sold, even though Toshiba (the major backer of HD-DVD) backed down from the format. Also, there were many people who purchased HD-DVD players during last year's holiday...

LITEON DH-4B1S-08 BD-RE: Burning in HD

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:48:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Gr8ful - I waited until the format war was over and the victor declared before choosing a side. Now that Blu-Ray is the clear and absolute winner I decided it was time to buy a burner for my PC. Aside from the huge price drop since the introduction of...

Burn, baby, burn!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:14:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aloofyouth - The specs are out there for everyone to see: this is LITE-ON's all-in-one solution to burning CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, and double-layer and/or double-sided versions thereof.But this review isn't about the specs you can see...

Good buy, great blu-ray player

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:45:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author biggb - First off let's please get this item into the correct Epinions category. This is a standard high quality Blu-ray DVD player, not a burner. If Epinions can get this model moved into the regular Blu-Ray DVD Player category, please...

Waste of time and money

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:32:00 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author oztotl - I was in a hurry to deliver a product on DVD to a client the next day (it was already 9pm), so I bought this Lightscribe burner because I wanted to be able to minimize the equipment I needed to burn and label the DVD.Installation was simple...

An Extremely Outstanding Performing Combination DVD CD Burner

Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:47:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author peterdmar - (Note: This is an old review that was reposted in the correct category because Epinions.com accidentally put it in the wrong one)This is a review of the parallel interface EIDE LG GSA-H55NK combination DVD and CD Burner. This burner turned out to...

Sophisticated Combination Dual Layered DVD and CD-RW Burner

Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:00:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author peterdmar - (Note: This is an old review that was reposted in the correct category because Epinions.com accidentally put it in the wrong one)I've purchased two of these quiet OEM Panasonic 9585 C combination DVD /CD burner drives with no burning software for...

Got a Netbook? You'll Need This...

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 02:57:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nad_masters - If you own one of those netbooks that are popular now-a-days (such as the Acer
Aspire One), you'll need some kind of optical drive. I was able to install Windows XP and Ubuntu using a desktop SATA DVD Recorder, but...

A fast burner with fast installation; now I get SATA drives

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:17:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bloodline23 - I have a Compaq Presario that is about 3-4 years old now. Although it still uses PC3200 RAM, it did come with SATA inputs and has a SATA hard drive. The installed optical drive was a standard EIDE drive, and I installed a second DVD-RW EIDE drive form my...

HP 1040i DVD install problems

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:42:20 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author lgroner - The installation instructions referred to an installation CD. The only CD found in the box was Nero 7. I did install that. Could you specify the precise file name and date of the Microsoft driver required? I could not read a commercial DVD on the...

The Most Junkiest DVD Burner Ever

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:12:21 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gccengineering - Does not work well with the SR2010NX Compaq Presario PC even with 2 GB's of RAM. I tried to burn home movies from it, but it will not playback on my home DVD player. Its only good for backing up DVD data discs, but not video DVD's. Its woefully...

Died after 7 months

Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:39:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author zerotax - Worked fine overall - for a while. I found it slow to start reading discs and to open and close the...

Software bait and switch

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:02:20 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author frankthomas - Received this Sony DVD burner as a gift. It "includes" Nero DVD authoring/burning software. Aside from an infantile interface, Nero offers only the most basic options. More importantly, it constantly nudges you to buy the "upgrade" -- which is, of...