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Discussion in 'Blu-ray players' started by haralcor, Aug 1, 2009.

  1. haralcor

    haralcor Member

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    Does anyone know where to find a reasonably priced external blu ray burner and/ or the software required to complete the process?
     
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    What do you consider reasonably priced?

    You may have been better off asking for the least expensive and start from there.

    I've seen internal as low as $99.00 USD but they're 1st gen and pretty slow. Add $50.00 or more for an external (or add your own enclosure).

    Newegg has only one and it's $194.00.

    With regard to:

    " . . software required to complete the process? "

    Most writers (all retail versions that I've ever seen) come with burning software. Anything beyond that (i.e. authoring, source file creation, etc.) is the user's responsibility.
     
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  3. rounder00

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    Don't buy the LiteOn burner. I purchased one and made only 5 BD backups and it died on me. Because I lost the receipt LiteOn would not honor the manufacturing warranty and left me to rot with it. They wouldn't even repair it if I paid for labor. They have the absolute worst customer service I've ever seen! They only have a tech support line and for all other inquiries you have to email them and they take avg 48 hrs to reply.

    UNREAL! Spend an extra couple bucks and get a Pioneer or LG.

    In regards to software - check out BD-Rebuilder made by jdobbs. It works great and all of the instructions can be found on AfterDawn (one of the first sticky threads in the blu-ray forum or search for "BD-Rebuilder")

    Cheers
     
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    dailun Active member

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    Why are you blaming Lite-On because YOU lost the receipt?

    ". . . yeah, but I know where all of my warranty receipts are!"

    Mike Myers as "Middle Aged Man"
     
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    GOOD FOR YOU!

    LiteOn has bad customer service. If you lose your receipt any other company will charge you a labor fee but LiteOn says "they do not repair any of their blu-ray writers at this time". Does that make any sense to you at all?
     
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    Second - what kind of burner dies after 5 burns? I had several other DVD writers that I used to make 2000+ backups and never had a problem.. That alone speaks for itself.
     
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    I just purchased this:

    BUFFALO MEDIA STATION (BRHC-6316U2)$199.99 HIGH DEFINITION COMBO BLU-RAY BURNER/PLAYER AND HD PLAYER (TURBO/USB). Comes with NERO 8 Essentials Suite 3. Made in JAPAN. Burns BLU-RAY @ up to 6x speeds with TURBO/USB enabled. I purchased mine from BUY.COM .
     
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