Has anyone tried this burner http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=615101&Sku=P67-1064 It claims that it can burn DVD+R at 8X. Can you even buy media that is certified 8X. Thanks.
My issue is this: Is it worth the premium price to not wait an additional 10mins. to write a disc? For me, it is not and I'm thinking of going to the 2X media over the 4x media for this reason. Now if you are using a duplicator and you must make alot of copies and don't have the luxury of waiting, then yes. IMHO
Well I have it in my other PC where I need to quickly burn DVD+R, so for the job I want it, it's OK. For my home I have a Pioneer 4x and does the job time, and as you say sometimes I even buy the cheaper 2x media.
4x is fast enought for me now, but Im gonna save and get a Blu Ray drive when they come out, not faster versions of DVD writer lol!
I burn at 4X too but what is wrong with 8X. The price may be more now but look what happened to CD-R's. Faster burn media will also drop the price of slower burn media. I'm more worried about buffer underrun error. That's 11,080 kb/s!
Burn Baby Burn! Go for it. The more people start buying the 8X the sooner it will come down in price for the masses. I just wish I had your available cash flow!
Whats the point as Blu Ray will be out then! Blu Ray will kick ass and DVD will then not be used for media/movie entertainment.
So you already have or are getting your HDTV? You plan on recording HDTV broadcasts while simultaneously playing back your HD recording?
Who said anything about HDTV? HDTV is just a fill in for the moment, because as soon as Blu Ray is out, recording discs which take hours will go out of the window! HDTV is good, but bad because its not on perminant storage (EG, CD or DVD), this is where Blu Ray will come into its own. No! Don't think DVD can do that either! Whats your point?
Sorry if I've misunderstood. I read on the Blu Ray site as an example of what I wrote above(recording one disc while playing back what's already recorded from a HD source). Since HDTV is still a ways away from being mainstream, this could all change again by then as those companies find something better than Blu Ray. OR/ it may go the way firewire did. Although the technology was there, they postponed it's widespread use because they discovered USB. In order for companies to perpetuate the manufacturing and selling of designs they must look for the way to milk the consumer. They will never give us the best. Meaning that unless there is something already better, they will always give us something in-between. It makes more sense this way. More profit for these companies. As an example: Intel has always maintained about 7 chip versions ahead of what they currently have on the market. Only when competition comes out with a compatible or better chip do they typically release the next one in line. This way they always stay ahead of the competition and lessen the impact that other competetors can make on their bottom line.
It will be interesting when this comes around; if it will cause a quantum leap in consumer hard drive storage capacity as well (following the Blu Ray example). Then one has to wonder..at what point does the madness stop? How much resolution is necessary, how big can programs become before they are a true hinderance to the programmer (and will they ever go back to true programming genius? /VS 'space is no longer an issue so now I can be sloppy, be less of an expert and let another program clean up my code'), how long can we bear to accept that Microsoft products are the biggest drains on our I.T. wallets (TCO? PLEASE!) Thanks for your news on Blu Ray.
As an ancient Greek proverb says "The future is common and obscure". When I bough a desktop computer it came with a TDK-100A DVD-R recording at 2X (I payed for this tose glorious days about EUR 550,00 including taxes). When this drive decided to commit suiccide I payed a difference of EUR 93,00 for a Sony DRU-510A DVD+/-R recording at 4X. Since also this device went to ment his parents as the previous one the constructor suggested me the Plextor PX-708 PX +/-R recording at 8X charging me another EUR 12,00. From the one hand I discovered that some brands of 4X DVD +R discs are able to burn at 8X speed, but on the other hand the burner doesnt like to make company with the majority of cheap DVD discs. The only real dilemma is "Do I need to purchase a DVD burner now and for what purpose?" The evolution will be always in progress and we dont know where it will be lead. I pay know a certain amount of money for a specific reason. If I'll wait for the next generation I'll never purchase nothing. E.g. DVDs with capacity of 2,70 GB, the forecoming 8,70 dual layer format (DVD-9s) or the Blue Ray technology. FYI i use the burner mainly for backup purposes and storing old 8mm Video Tapes on DVD format discs or historical TV transmissions.
This is how the companies make lots and lots of money out of us oracle. I always let everbody else buy the latest tech, then about 4 months later I buy it and save 10%. If anybody didn't buy the latest technology, then the companies would make any progress as the cost of R&D would not be worth it lol. Hopefuly in the future, computers will do all the hard work for us like simulating products. This will all lead to cheap products, but knowing how corporate companies think, the price will probs stay the same!
Oracle; What is the brand(s)of 4x name you refer to that the Plextor PX-708 will burn at 8X? This would make many of us happy on two fronts. Thanks!
Good 'ol Verbatim http://www.kensei-con.net/cetc/publish/computers_pda_acc/article_13271.shtml Can't wait. Anyone heard the buzz about the new 64-bit processor? I'm thinking old, existing software will run the same being that it was written for 32-bit.
Yes it will play the same but 64-bit of windows is coming and of course other programs will support them two. I think in 2 years we are going to be all 64-bit guys, get ready for it!
