$162 is a pretty good price for the DVR-106, especially in black. It could get a little better as it bottoms out around here at around £78, but roughly $20 over rock-bottom isn't a big deal for such a great burner.
Judging the market in the United Kingdom for DVD burners, I'd buy the 106 right quickly. You won't regret the loss of the packaged software. It's nothing my DVD tutorials and Nero can't mend.
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Speaking of Nero and DVD burner support; it's quite recommended that people AVOID Nero for the production of DVD videos. Rather it's better if one gets into producing the necessary IFO/BUP/VOB files and dropping them in a VIDEO_TS directory then packaging that into an ISO, and burning the ISO with DVD Decrypter's ISO-burn engine.. Which is excellent for DVDs. There's something about the way Nero writes DVD Video which many DVD players don't like, including my own. The success rate between DVD Decrypter and Nero is significant on video DVDs, so much so that I won't use anything but DVDD now.
As far as data is concerned, Nero will work. But yes, it needs nero 5x, and the newest firmware to work properly. Nero support for DVD data burning is still iffy.. And in this regard, Roxio's Easy CD creator is actually superior. Go figure.
Ooooooh look who's been looking at Scan Today Only eh????
My neighbour has one & apart from finding a version of Nero that would work with it & having to do a firmware upgrade, he really likes it.
I did see an NEC writer for about £60 somewhere but I forget where it was, (Scan, NEC 1000 oem) somebody like Komplett or something but it was only a 2x one not 4.
it was de ja vue cos i was just looking at the Today Only page and thinking about that it was a good deal. Then I just went to S-M to check for new posts and there was yours. I mean we literally talking minutes between the two.
If you don't want to burn video CDs as often, DVD+R/RW is a fine format. Cheap data archival purposes without heading into DVD-RAM territory, DVD+RW is ok. You'll get successful DVD Video burns out of a +R/RW drive, but not as many as you would out of a -R/RW drive.
I eventually managed to turn one of my AVI files into an IFO, BUP and other said files and burnt it with Nero. Worked fine, though I guess I am just lucky (makes a change).
Got the AVI file.
Stripped the Audio from it as it was an invalid VBR rate and saved it as a seperate WAV file (which is why TMPGEnc said the 110min file was 303mins) with VirtualDub.
Pulled the AVI and WAV file into TMPGEnc which turned it into a m2v and wav file.
Put those 2 into IFO... something (maker, buster, burner?) (main machine is offline, i'll check when it's back up) which gave me the respective BUP, IFO and such files.
Opened nero and specified DVD Video, dragged all the files into the VIDEO_TS folder and told it to burn.
Done.
Not that difficult when when you know the programs you need as they are all pretty much automatic, took me ages to find exactly what I needed in the first place though.
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Judging the market in the United Kingdom for DVD burners, I'd buy the 106 right quickly. You won't regret the loss of the packaged software. It's nothing my DVD tutorials and Nero can't mend.
//EDIT:
Speaking of Nero and DVD burner support; it's quite recommended that people AVOID Nero for the production of DVD videos. Rather it's better if one gets into producing the necessary IFO/BUP/VOB files and dropping them in a VIDEO_TS directory then packaging that into an ISO, and burning the ISO with DVD Decrypter's ISO-burn engine.. Which is excellent for DVDs. There's something about the way Nero writes DVD Video which many DVD players don't like, including my own. The success rate between DVD Decrypter and Nero is significant on video DVDs, so much so that I won't use anything but DVDD now.
As far as data is concerned, Nero will work. But yes, it needs nero 5x, and the newest firmware to work properly. Nero support for DVD data burning is still iffy.. And in this regard, Roxio's Easy CD creator is actually superior. Go figure.
My neighbour has one & apart from finding a version of Nero that would work with it & having to do a firmware upgrade, he really likes it.
I did see an NEC writer for about £60 somewhere but I forget where it was, (Scan, NEC 1000 oem) somebody like Komplett or something but it was only a 2x one not 4.
Regards
Jim
It comes with £15 worth of media.. hence the slightly inflated price
I just wanted to make sure it was a good burner and would do the job
Thanks for the input too Jim.. that's appreciated .. I know the latest version works with it
Thanks guys .. appreciated
.. and yes.. Scan Today only
it was de ja vue cos i was just looking at the Today Only page and thinking about that it was a good deal. Then I just went to S-M to check for new posts and there was yours. I mean we literally talking minutes between the two.
Weird nes pas?
NEC DVD recorder IDE ND-1100A, Bulk, DVD+R/+RW 4X/2,4X/16X/10X/40X/12X
That strikes me as a very good deal apart from a 5 day back order. Anybody got opinions on these as I might get one.
Jim
I just need one.. for lots of data storage.. need to back up nearly 100+gb of data
.. and Id use DD for movie production
Enverex.. how did you make your DVD-r movie?
Stripped the Audio from it as it was an invalid VBR rate and saved it as a seperate WAV file (which is why TMPGEnc said the 110min file was 303mins) with VirtualDub.
Pulled the AVI and WAV file into TMPGEnc which turned it into a m2v and wav file.
Put those 2 into IFO... something (maker, buster, burner?) (main machine is offline, i'll check when it's back up) which gave me the respective BUP, IFO and such files.
Opened nero and specified DVD Video, dragged all the files into the VIDEO_TS folder and told it to burn.
Done.
Not that difficult when when you know the programs you need as they are all pretty much automatic, took me ages to find exactly what I needed in the first place though.