OptoRite DD0201/DD0203 DVD Writer
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OptoRite DD0201/DD0203 OEM:Accesstek Chipset:Sanyo |
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AE1) comments, 0 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Datawrite Classic Red 4xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 3 Datawrite Classic Yellow 4xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 3 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Datawrite Generation 2 2.4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR00) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Datawrite Red (V2) 4xDVD-R (AN31........) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Datawrite Red (V2) 4xDVD-R (INFOSMART01.) comments, 0 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Datawrite Yellow (V2) 4xDVD-R (RITEKG05....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Dr. Byte 4xDVD-R (SKC Co.,Ltd.) comments, 0 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 DVDPro 4xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Eagle Media 4xDVD-R (LEADDATA01..) comments, 0 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Fujifilm 8xDVD-R (ProdiscF01..) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Fujifilm 4xDVD-R (ProdiscS03) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Fujifilm 1xDVD-R (RITEKG03....) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Fujifilm 2xDVD-R (TAIYOYUDEN..) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 5 Fujifilm 4xDVD-R (TYG01.......) comments, 5 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Fujifilm 8xDVD+R (YUDEN000T02) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Generic/Unbranded 4xDVD-R (LONGTEN 001.) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 2 Generic/Unbranded 2xDVD-R (MXL RG01....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 2 Generic/Unbranded 4xDVD-R (ONIDTECH....) comments, 1 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 GQ (Great Quality) 4xDVD+R (VDSPMSAB001) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 HQ 4xDVD-R (LONGTEN 001.) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Imation 2.4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.R01) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Imation 2.4xDVD+RW (CMC MAG.W01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Imation 2.4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR00) comments, 1 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Imation 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 3 Imation 1xDVD-R (RITEKG03....) comments, 3 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Infiniti 2xDVD-R (SONY........) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 KHypermedia 2xDVD-R (CMC MAG.....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 KHypermedia 4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.F01) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 KHypermedia 2.4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.R01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 KHypermedia 2.4xDVD+RW (CMC MAG.W01) comments, 0 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 KHypermedia 1xDVD-R (CMC00RG200..) comments, 0 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 KHypermedia 1xDVD-R (TDKG02000000) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Liquid Video 2xDVD-R (OPTODISCK001) comments, 0 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 4 Matrix 4xDVD-R (LONGTEN 001.) comments, 3 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Maxell 1xDVD-RW (JVC/VictorT7) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Maxell 8xDVD+R (MAXELL..002) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 3 Maxell 4xDVD-R (MXL RG02....) comments, 3 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Maxell 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Maxell 16xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR03) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 MDA Technology 4xDVD-R (AN31........) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 MediaPro 4xDVD-R (............) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Melody 2xDVD-R (CMC MAG.....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 6 Memorex 4xDVD-R (CMC MAG. AF1) comments, 4 good, 2 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Memorex 4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.F01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Memorex 2.4xDVD+RW (INFODISCA01) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 8 Memorex 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 8 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Memorex 2.4xDVD+RW (RICOHJPNW01) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 3 Memorex 4xDVD+RW (RICOHJPNW11) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Memorex 2xDVD-RW (RITEKW01....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Memorex 2xDVD-RW (TDK502sakuM3) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Mirror Platinum 4xDVD+R (MEDIA ID001) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Mirror Platinum 4xDVD+R (VDSPMSAB001) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Optimum 2xDVD-R (CMC MAG.....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Optimum 2.4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.R01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 5 Optodisc 4xDVD-R (OPTODISCK001) comments, 4 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Optodisc 1xDVD-R (OPTODISCK001) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Optodisc 2.4xDVD+R (OPTODISCOP1) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Panasonic 2xDVD-R (MEI 00V001) comments, 0 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Panasonic 4xDVD-R (TYG01.......) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Pengo Professional 2xDVD-R (MCC 00RG200) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Philips 2.4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.R01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Piodata 4xDVD-R (LEADDATA01..) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Piodata 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Prime 4xDVD-R (GSC001......) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 6 Princo 4xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 6 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Princo 1xDVD-RW (PRINCO......) comments, 1 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Princo 1xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Prodisc 2xDVD-R (PRODISCG02..) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 3 Prodisc 4xDVD-R (ProdiscS03) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Ricoh 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 RiData 4xDVD+R (RITEK...R02) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 6 RiData 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 4 good, 0 mixed, 2 poor. 2 RiDisc 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 11 Ritek 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 11 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Ritek 2xDVD-RW (RITEKW01....) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 RiVision 4xDVD-R (RITEKG04....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Sandy Yang 4xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Sky 4xDVD+R (........001) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 2 Sky 4xDVD-R (AN32........) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 SmartBuy 1xDVD-RW (ProdiscDVDRW) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 2 Sonic 2xDVD-R (LONGTEN 001.) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Sonic 2xDVD-R (MUST 001....) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Sony 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Sony 2.4xDVD+RW (RICOHJPNW01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 3 Sony 1xDVD-R (SONY........) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 3 poor. 1 Sony 8xDVD+R (SONY....D11) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Staples 4xDVD+R (OPTODISCOR4) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 StarLogic 1xDVD-R (PRINCO......) comments, 1 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Sumvision 4xDVD-R (............) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 2 poor. 1 Sumvision 4xDVD-R (Dvsn........) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Supermedia 4xDVD-R (GSC002......) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 TDK 4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.F01) comments, 1 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 TDK 4xDVD+R (MCC.....002) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 TDK 2.4xDVD+RW (MCC.....A01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 TDK 2xDVD-R (MXL RG01....) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 TDK 2.4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR00) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 6 TDK 4xDVD+R (RICOHJPNR01) comments, 5 good, 1 mixed, 0 poor. 1 TDK 4xDVD-R (TTG01.......) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 5 That's 4xDVD+R (YUDEN000T01) comments, 5 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Value Disc 2.4xDVD+R (CMC MAG.R01) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Vanguard 4xDVD-R (VANGUARD....) comments, 0 good, 0 mixed, 1 poor. 1 Velocity 8xDVD+R (MCC.....003) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 2 Verbatim (DataLife) 2xDVD-R (CMC MAG.....) comments, 2 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 1 Verbatim (DataLife) 2.4xDVD+RW (CMC MAG.W01) comments, 1 good, 0 mixed, 0 poor. 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| Bought this last week for USD120. Installation was a piece of cake. Win XP instantly recognized the drive. Used Nero6 to back up some files on Memorex +R. Worked like a charm. No issues. Took about 18 minutes to write about 4.3gb of data. Then tried writing to CompUSA brand -R disc. Worked beautifully. Since then tried out about 8 dicks. Only once data back failed. I used Nero Burning ROm instead of going through the wizard. So I guess I made a mistake or the default setting on Nero was wrong. Then i switched to wizard more and everything has gone good so far. Great Drive! Comments posted by raven from Other, October 13, 2003. Rated this writer 9 of 10. |
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| Bought this yesterday for £108inc VAT from MicroDirect, Manchester. Came with Sonic MyDVD and B's Gold (for RW packet writing, etc). Initial firmware was V2.09. Installed all software, formatted a Verbatim DVD+RW, tried writing to it, but DVD drive froze, had to hard reset PC. This DVD+RW is now unusable. Upgraded firmware to V2.16, very easy to do in Windows, clear instructions from optorite.com. MicroDirect sold me a 25 pack spindle of Infiniti 4X DVD-R white lable disks, which at £37 was not the cheapest. However, I've already burnt 5 full films with the Sonic software, and perfect every time. I've imported movie files produced in Premiere, both analogue and DV captures, and once burnt to DVD, these play excellently on my Sony DVP-NS405 DVD player. MicroDirect told me that these Infinitis have very good compatibility with DVD set top players. Oh, and despite being white label, they are purple dye underneath. Instruction said to set to DMA, but when I checked, it was already done (maybe from the previous CD-RW that I removed). So in one evening, I've gone from 'never tried it before' to 'totally sorted'. Thanks Optowrite. I'll try another DVD+RW when I can afford to pay for another !. Hopefully it was just a firmware thing. Only gripes; Sonic MyDVD only has 'auto' write speed, you cannot select X2.4 or X4.0, so I'm not sure what speed it's choosing. I'm not bothered, as long as it never produces coasters. This DVD writer is not listed on Sonic's supported website, despite Optorite shipping the drive with their software. MyDVD instantly states drive details, firmware etc, so Sonic should update themselves a bit. I may upgrade to a better authoring software though, MyDVD is a bit limited. When you press eject, there is 4 second delay. I guess it just waits until it's ready. It runs nice and quietly, no stupid vibration noises like some drives. I've heard lots of nightmares about DVD writers. Well this was no nigtmare. I'll give it a 10 straight away. Intel 850 P4 512RDRAM C: drive = U160, D:&E drives: = Primary IDE Master and Slave, F: DD0203 DVD = Seconday IDE Master Win2K SP3 Comments posted by Ben from Other, October 13, 2003. Rated this writer 10 of 10. |
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| the writer is very good althought the cheaper brands of (a-b grade disks) only write at 2x, you pay four what you get, but i have also tried true A grade princo disks but theyt still only write at two speed all ritek dyes will write at 4x please check dye colours first as there are many brand like datasafe/datawrite who put out two or three types of dye ritek,princo and prodisk. optowrite have only recomended ritek based dye's. I must agree with the lack of supported software and the dye colour is down to crap firmware , but i have heared that a few other writers have the same problem Comments posted by fred from Other, October 13, 2003. Rated this writer 9 of 10. |
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| I bought this burner a month ago and using windows 2000, firmware 2.09, ritek medias, dvd shrink to rip, clonedvd to rip and burn 4X. No coasters and play well on two apex players and sony player. Comments posted by Rick from Other, October 12, 2003. Rated this writer No rating. |
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| DD0203 with fv 2.16 Really bad burner ! Sometimes freezing or closing windows (98 or xp) when accessing DVD Can't even read dvd he burned ! Accept most of DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW i tried Power calibration error with some disc doesn't accept SONY DMR47VDA and VIVASTAR DVD-R Huge problem of compatibility with stand-alone players (i burnt more than 30 disc before understanding the way it works on -R) If you can't read your DVD with another player, try to burn a DVD-R as an ISO Multisession not closed (it works with my LENCO DVD17) but DVD+R are still not readables (if someone can help !) The compagny support doesn't answer and if they answer (had 1 returned mail for 10 posted), they tell you that there's no problem with the burner or the firmware (ha ha ha !!!!) and you should change your dvd or your player DO NOT BUY THIS THING ! Comments posted by Ipso from Other, October 11, 2003. Rated this writer 1 of 10. |
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| This drive is particular about its media. Sony DVD-R 4x would not even recognize under Nero or any other burner program. I popped in Verbatim DVD-R and it burned with no problem. I haven't tried any other DVD media. This is a good dual format drive and I really enjoyed the price paid. Comments posted by MikeS from Other, October 10, 2003. Rated this writer 8 of 10. |
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| bought this drive from livewarehouse for $120 free shipping and I am very happy with it. I only seriously tried +R media from Memorex and that works perfectly fine (4x) both data and video. Comments posted by fracture_x from Other, October 09, 2003. Rated this writer 9 of 10. |
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| I bought this product for it's Multi-write features. It replaced my Pioneer A04. I primarily buy TDK media, and my drive will not even initialize upon inserting a TDK DVD-R. The same goes for SONY DVD-R. TDK +R media works fine, but it is not as compatible with my standalone player. I find it upsetting that I will have to special order media, and I can't just go to my local STAPLES store to buy what they have in stock on the shelves. This drive has lots of promise, i really like the HDBURN feature. I'd like to know what the plans are to support more "top brand" media. Oh, also - i cannot seem to re-format a DVD-RW and be able to burn to it. It seems to me that only about 1/2 of the promised features. It works great as a +R/+RW burner, but really lacks -R/-RW support. Waiting for the next firmware revision, so that i may be able to use the TDK and SONY DVD-Rs that are sitting here. The update was the beginning of August. I started confident about this drive, and now i'm getting concerned. By the way, i have NO eject button problems. Comments posted by Mole from Other, October 09, 2003. Rated this writer 7 of 10. |
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| I got the drive yesterday, and backed up a copy of a DVD movie using DVDDEcryptor, and Nero 5.5. I used 2x Memorex DVD-RW media. My first DVD burning experience. The main hiccup was that after installing the drive, I installed Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD, and this rendered my DVD drive useless. Wondows would no longer recognize the drive, I believe because the Pinnacle installs some phantom SCSI CD drive emulator, and this was preventing my Optorite from being usable. Anybody else have this problem? I'd like to use the Pinnacle SW, but am stuck. Thanks. Comments posted by Shawn from Other, October 09, 2003. Rated this writer No rating. |
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| You can get a windows interfaced flash tool from optorite.com. Also, for those who flashed to the mistaken 2.17 firmware and couldn't flash back to 2.16, try flasing from a bootable floppy. Worked like a charm for mr. All in all this has been a great writer for me. Got it from Newegg.com at an awesome $134! Comments posted by usandthem from Other, October 07, 2003. Rated this writer 9 of 10. |
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| Is there a way to update the firmware on this device without using a boot disk? My A drive is busted, and i didn't want to buy the drive and not be able to update the firmware. Any suggestions? Comments posted by jg from Other, October 07, 2003. Rated this writer No rating. |
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| Got the DD0201 for $122+tax from a FatWallet deal. It is a great burner except for the fact that it is really picky on the brand of media. Burned 3 DVDs tonite with 3 different softwares. All worked fine, no coaster. All the DVDs played fine on DVD-Rom and DVD players. Comments posted by Abarth from Other, October 03, 2003. Rated this writer 8 of 10. |
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| I've been using this drive for a week now. Gone through 50 4X DVD-R blanks from Bigpockets (own brand, apparently made by datasafe), and every one plays fine on PC and PS2, and so far on every other machine encountered. bigpockets.co.uk Comments posted by Jackson from Other, October 01, 2003. Rated this writer No rating. |
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| Got this the other day for a nice £100. I ripped and burnt two films which both worked fine, or at least it seemed so. After getting about 60% through the disc on playback. It just locks up both of my DVD Players. Both discs were burnt at 4x on "BulkPaq 4x ORANGE" DVD-Rs. I'm trying again at 2x this time, hope things work, or i'll be pissed with 50 blank un-usable DVDr's. Anyone got some cheap Media recommendations for a UK buyer? Comments posted by Jon from Other, October 01, 2003. Rated this writer No rating. |
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| Excellent burner. I've had no problems. The button thing is soo freakin silly. I can't believe people complain about this. Its so petty. I use firmware 2.16 with no issues in Nero 6 at all. I was even able to burn a CD for the Toshiba SD1600 with Memorex DVD-R. I got mine at Newegg for a great price. Comments posted by J.P. from Other, September 30, 2003. Rated this writer 10 of 10. |
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| For those getting the "Power Calibration Error" attempting to burn a DVD with this writer, you need to set the DMA access mode OFF and use the PIO Mode 4. This has no effect on read/write speeds but it prevent a few coasters. Comments posted by Stephen J Land from Other, September 30, 2003. Rated this writer 8 of 10. |
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| DVD-Rs burned with Nero 5 do no play on my Norcent DP300. Others are also having problems with DVD-Rs on some players. Comments posted by Navaneet Kumar from Other, September 30, 2003. Rated this writer 7 of 10. |
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| While dvdrhelp was down I have solved a puzzle (with some help from google)which has been plaguing many Optorite users. There is some kind of small bug (which we must hope will be solved with a future firmware update after 2.16) in the way the drive handles single session finalizing. The result, even with Nero 6, is DVD-R discs that cannot be read by many players, both DVD-ROM and standalones. (No problem with DVD+R.)Here is a workaround. In Nero, choose UFO/ISO mode to write the video. (Drag all the needed content to a VIDEO_TS folder you create. Include an empty AUDIO_TS folder for good measure.) The important step is to choose the Multisession option and ignore the warning message that Nero 6 generates. Many folks say that standalone players can't read movies made in multisession mode, but my Sony (3rd highest rated presently on this site)has no problem. And my Panasonic RV32 also plays discs made this way even though it is very fussy! Neither can handle Ritek discs produced by the Optorite in standard DVD-VIDEO mode. Hope this helps some folks out there. Comments posted by David Griffeath from Other, September 30, 2003. Rated this writer 8 of 10. |
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| I recently purchased this for $135 with shipping. I wasted three brand anme discs to start with before I decided to upgrade the firmware to 2.16. I think it started with 2.06. After that was done I have not had a problem yet. I have burned usxing Maxell DVD-RW without a problem. I have also burned with TDK DVD-R. Now the mission is to find good cheap media that works. I have a Panasonic RP56 and Pionner DVC505 DVD players and they both play the burned DVDS with no problem. I am using CopyToDVD and Nero to burn. I have tried DVD X Copy Express and DVD95COPY for movie ripping. They both work fine after upgrading the firmware to 2.16 as mentioned above. I love it so far. Comments posted by smeakim from Other, September 23, 2003. Rated this writer 8 of 10. |
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| Mostly very happy with this burner. Installed easily enough and worked straight off - even the notorious button seems fine on mine. After reading this forum and others you get a bit paranoid - you begin to wonder whether any item you buy will work properly. Such gripes as I have: 1) Have not yet persuaded HD-BURN to work. Apparently I need to invest in one of a small list of v high quality CD-Rs, but worryingly the supplied B's Recorder software does not identify writer as supporting HD-Burn! Nero 5 attempts to do an HD-Burn but reports "power calibration error". I'm not too bothered as I can just use DVDs for bulk data storage - even though cost per meg is higher. 2) UDF format with DVD+RW seems to work OK provided you do the long format with verify. The quick format apears to work but the disks sometimes prove troublesome to read afterwards. Comments posted by Dennis from Other, September 23, 2003. Rated this writer 8 of 10. |
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| Recently purchased. Upgraded to 2.16 firmware. Retail comes with Sonic MyDVD, which seems to work fine with my setup. No problems as of yet. Have used: Phillips DVD+RW and DVD+R Fujifilm DVD+RW That'S DVD+R47TY No problems, just needed to full format a cd once (probably my fault) Comments posted by ACCMPTR from Other, September 21, 2003. Rated this writer 10 of 10. |
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| I have gotten it to burn at full speed with no problems on Printco DVD-Rs and with Verbatim DVD+RW's The only gripes I have are the stupid eject button, and I can't figure out how to use the HD-Burn with Nero 6. Is there an option to check or is it media independant? Comments posted by Taihlo from Other, September 20, 2003. Rated this writer 8 of 10. |
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| OptoRite DD203 Recommended Media List: http://www.optorite.com/dd0203.htm Comments posted by Roger from Other, September 19, 2003. Rated this writer No rating. |
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| Everything I have thrown at it has worked. JVC +rw Thats +r Memorex -r Datasafe-r Datawrite-r So far so good Comments posted by Kwack from Other, September 19, 2003. Rated this writer 10 of 10. |
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more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Writer = New DVD Writer since your last vist. OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer. Chipset The manufacturer of the main chipset the DVD writer/recorder is based on. Write support / Read support DVD-R = Works DVD-R? = Not tested Single Layer(4.7GB) write speeds 1x (CLV) = about 58 minutes 2x (CLV) = about 29 minutes 2.4x (CLV) = about 24 minutes 4x (CLV) = about 14.5 minutes 6x (CLV/ZCLV) = about 10-12 minutes 8x (PCAV/ZCLV) = about 8-10 minutes 12x (PCAV/ZCLV) = about 6.5-7.5 minutes 16x (CAV/ZCLV) = about 6-7 minutes Dual/Double Layer(8.5GB) write speeds 1x CLV = about 105 minutes 2.4x CLV = about 44 minutes 4x CLV = about 27 minutes Single Layer (4.7GB) read speeds 1x read speed is 1.321MB/s = ~56 minutes 6x CAV (avg. ~4x) read speed is max 7.93MB/s = ~14 minutes 8x CAV (avg. ~6x) read speed is max 10.57MB/s = ~10 minutes 12x CAV (avg. ~8x) read speed is max 15.85MB/s = ~7 minutes 16x CAV (avg. ~12x) read speed is max 21.13MB/s = ~5 minutes DVD Write types CAV = Constant Angular Velocity, the DVD is written at a constantly increasing speed. CLV = Constant Linear Velocity, the DVD is written at a constant speed. ZCLV = Zone Constant Linear Velocity, the DVD is divided into zones. After each zone the write speed is increased. PCAV = Partial Constant Angular Velocity, the DVD is being written at an increasing speed until a certain speed. After this speed it will not increase anymore. Connection Desktop = Standalone desktop DVD Recorder EIDE = Computer DVD Writer with EIDE/IDE connection SCSI = Computer DVD Writer with SCSI connection USB = Computer desktop DVD Writer with USB 2.0 or/and 1.1 connection FireWire = Computer desktop DVD Writer with IEEE 1394/FireWire/i.Link connection (some standalone desktop dvd recorder supports this also but then it is usually to connect your DV camera to the recorder) Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. |
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