PC Peripherals Lite On/ DVD -RW

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@Decadent_Spectre ... Your heart seems to be set on buying a LiteOn DVD writer - as was mine after having had extremely good experiences with their CD Writers for the last few years.

But I did some research on the CDFreaks forums and it was clear that there are only 2 DVD writers worth using - the BENQ 1640 and the new NEC writers. Plextors used to be the King of the Hill in Optical drives but now the latest model is a rebadgered BENQ 1640 as is the Sony 810 !!

I did feel strongly about having a LiteON so I did the next best thing - I bought a LiteOn DVD-ROM which I think was a good buy at 1500/- the model is SOHD-16P9S - GREAT DVD reader !!
 
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@Decadent_Spectre ... Your heart seems to be set on buying a LiteOn DVD writer - as was mine after having had extremely good experiences with their CD Writers for the last few years.

But I did some research on the CDFreaks forums and it was clear that there are only 2 DVD writers worth using - the BENQ 1640 and the new NEC writers. Plextors used to be the King of the Hill in Optical drives but now the latest model is a rebadgered BENQ 1640 as is the Sony 810 !!

I did feel strongly about having a LiteON so I did the next best thing - I bought a LiteOn DVD-ROM which I think was a good buy at 1500/- the model is SOHD-16P9S - GREAT DVD reader !!
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You patched it with Codeguys' FW?
http://codeguys.rpc1.org
 
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Chaos said:
Everything u get in india is well... cheapo media :P. Get a Benq... anyday better than liteon.
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lol...well some are still better than others...

anyway i didn't have time really needed one ASAP dealer had a DW1640 so i took that...

so far its ok...im not best impressed with its performance and its giving me hell trying to write AVI files to a DVD...any suggestions?
 
Decadent_Spectre said:
lol...well some are still better than others...

anyway i didn't have time really needed one ASAP dealer had a DW1640 so i took that...

so far its ok...im not best impressed with its performance and its giving me hell trying to write AVI files to a DVD...any suggestions?
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What problems exactly and what media. Also get the latest firmware from the Benq site. Personally using 1620, latest firmware and MBI media with avi's. NO problems at all.
 
Decadent_Spectre said:
lol...well some are still better than others...

anyway i didn't have time really needed one ASAP dealer had a DW1640 so i took that...

so far its ok...im not best impressed with its performance and its giving me hell trying to write AVI files to a DVD...any suggestions?
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Get the latest BSLB firmware ... and if you want this firmware with RPC1 (region free) then get it from ......

http://tdb.rpc1.org/

the Benq 1640 firmwares are near the bottom of the page.

Have you installed QSuite 2 ? I found that I need to disable Solid Burn in QSuite 2 for my setup whilst I hear other people say that SB makes their burns better. If I have Solid Burn on than my Moser Baer 8x disks would burn at 4x only - with it off I burn the same disks at 12x.

I got my drive a couple of weeks back and I must have burned about 50 disks alread - not a single coaster yet.
 
...nah i mean that somehow it wont accept AVI files if i select the output on a DVD ...it works when i try to burn it onto the same disc but with VCD selected
 
Decadent_Spectre said:
...nah i mean that somehow it wont accept AVI files if i select the output on a DVD ...it works when i try to burn it onto the same disc but with VCD selected
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You are trying to convert a DIVX/XVID to MPEG2 -> PEBKAC! You need to use an AVI-> MPEG2 converter program like DivxToDVD
 
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