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Discussion in 'Nero discussion' started by cincyrob, Jul 27, 2007.

  1. cincyrob

    cincyrob Active member

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    wow its been a long time thread is dead.
    i see a MCC 003 up there those things are about extinct along with the reliable MCC004's its a shame verbs have fell so far.

    ok question. every optaric drive i have is now official dead. all 5 of them that i have had are toast. but the trusty lite-ons(true lite-ons) are still kicking.
    i havent looke at any drives in a while. is there any good ones out there that are worthy????
     
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    omegaman7 Senior member

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    Wow Rob. 5 Optiarcs dead? I have at least that many that have seen, um... A lot of discs. I have 2 7200A's. They're the oldest ones. Burning as good(if not better) as day one. If I were in the market right now, I'd be looking very closely at the 7260 drives. I have one. It's my newest least used drive. It's an excellent high speed drive. Never a coaster. It performs as good or better than the drives before it. As long as a drive has an NEC chip, I'm happy. I love NEC's drives. It's not your drive $ony, it's NEC's...

    I'm uncertain of the 7280 drives.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118067
    If I were in the market though, 19.99 with free shipping is VERY tempting. But I'm actually in a transition mode. I'm moving further and further away from DVD's, and embracing Blu-Ray :D

    Trusty Lite-ons? I lol'd. I guess you got lucky. over half of my lite-ons died. I have a BD IHES108, that's still kicking, but it may ignore read errors. And I have a LH20A1S I use for scanning. I no longer rip with it. My 7200S has proven to be be one of the best readers I've had. I used to have a $ony DRU820 that was a freak of a reader too. It's a toss up which one has been better. The 7200S has seen more discs, so I guess it's the champ.
     
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    cincyrob Active member

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    ive had 7200A&S a7220-72240and the last to die was the 7260S.
    all of my lite-ons(true liteons) but 2 are still running in one machine or another.
    of the 2 the only reason it isnt working is because i broke the little plastic clip that the sata cable plugs into. and that was my favorite drive of all time. LH-18A1P and LH-18A1S and then the LH-20A1S love those drives.
    as long as it has the mediatec chip in it im a happy camper...lol
    haven't had a BR Drive yet. still don't see a need in it for myself.
    i do agree with ya my 7200S did see alot of disc it was the second one i ever had and lasted the longest. of any of the 5 different ones.
     
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    omegaman7 Senior member

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    You're right Rob, it has been a while :)

    Verbatim 6X BD-R(VERBAT-IMe-000) burned at 4X via LG WH10LS30. Imgburn reports a max speed of 10X. Given the scan here, I wouldn't hesitate to burn at 6X. I just may for testing purposes. Better defragment my hard drives first though. 6x and beyond is pretty high speed burning ;)
    As you can see, it smokes the Digistor CMC MAG disc.
    [​IMG]
     
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    omegaman7 Senior member

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    And now one burned at 6X. Not too bad :)
    [​IMG]
     
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    greensman Regular member

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    Did a scan just for funzies.. ;)

    CMC.MAG.AM3


    Only 3GB I know but grabbed the closest thing to the burner/reader at the time. :D

    [​IMG]
     
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    omegaman7 Senior member

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    Here's another scan of a Verbatim BD-R NON LTH disc. Burned at 4X. I scanned it because there is a noticeable ring in the recording dye. I've seen them on Dvd-R's from time to time. Usually there's a discernible difference in read/burn quality. I'm not seeing much if any difference here. It had me a bit concerned, because I deleted the files directly after the burn. But, should be a good backup ;)
    [​IMG]
     
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    Ritek BD-R burned at 2X. I burned the ISO, and then had imgburn compare the ISO data to the burned disc. It passed :) And then I ran a quality scan. It exceeded my expectations. I don't believe I'll go beyond 2X on the remaining discs though. Thankfully only 3 or 4. I'd really like to come back to this disc in say 5 yrs, and see how it does. Given I store my discs very good, the surface should be in near perfect shape. The dye remains to be seen ;)
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    My LG drive has been very good. WH10LS30. My Lite-on iHES108 has been O-K. It's ignored read errors a few times, but when a disc is in reasonable condition, it does a good job. I mainly got the lite-on for scanning purposes. Though I rip with it every now and again. No read errors in quite some time. I believe it needed a good break-in. I've heard the pioneers are good burners. But I've read about quite a few quitting prematurely. The LG's seem to be pretty good. Mine certainly is :p My LG has seen a couple hundred discs. It still acts like new.
     
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    yea im looking for a player just so i can rip blu ray and then convert them, not any where interested in burning blu-ray way to costly and the disc are yet to prove reliable down the road.
     
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    Verbatims look good(of course). The only questionable media at the moment, is Ritek, and LTH(organic) dyes. I've gotten good buys on Verbs. Not much more than a dual layer verbatim dvd. The prices are dropping... THankfully!
     
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    I can go along with Omega I have 2 of the LGs with a third I just ordered from the Egg for $59.00.Using BD rebuilder putting on Blue Ray discks and DVD Tys.
     
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    so your just ripping the movie from the blue-ray disc and then burning to some nice TY's? thats what im interested in doing once i get my dream machine built...lol
     
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    YOu can convert Blu ray to dual layer dvds and have them look generally indistinguishable from the bluray. Depends on the situation/bitrate. I prefer BD-25 backups. I plan on a projector later. The less artifacting, the better!
     
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    Yes for movie only on rebuilder you can put on dvd 5 or double layer or blue ray discs. I put Public Enemy and American Gangster Movie only on my beloved Tys.I took the movie The help and did a full disc backup on a Verb +r DVD5 just to compare unless your viewing on a 55" screen the difference was virtually none. Chris
     
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    Rob,

    It means you still have to own or buy BluRay software to play or burn BD Disks!

    Best,
    Russ
     
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    I use both Nero [bought] and Power DVD 9[free] to watch on the computer.Also yes this is the burner.I should add both burners despite being oem came with cables and Power dvd software.Chris
     
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