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I am thinking of buying a CD-RW and Best Buy has a Digital Research 48x12x48 for $49-30-10= $10 final cost. Is this brand going to give me problems?
For $10, local, with a good return policy I would try anything.
These two reviewers like theirs but the review is from 99.
http://www.sysopt.com/userreviews/cdrecord/reviewhtml/Digital_Research_DRCDROMRW.html
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For $10 final cost, I'd buy it !
If you buying a drive for full price, you may want to think of one that can read & write in raw mode. Necessary if you want to back-up some of your programs from a protected CD ROM.Search the following site for more info...
www.cdrinfo.com
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CD-RW drives are becoming cheaper so fast they will soon be paying you to take them off their hands [well, almost :-)] Reason? DVD-RW !!
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Rebates are a scam, you have to be REAL careful about every single line and phrase.
I like this line from the Best buy ad in reference to said CDRW-
"Not available for store pickup. "Not available for delivery at this time"
How exactly do you get one then? You better hurry the rebate runs out on Sat!!
Jimi_l
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Rac - do you know where to get a good deal on a DVD-RW? I've been waiting for them to come down in price and also work out the bugs but haven't been following their progress of late. I'd like to give one a go when the time is right....
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the dvd-rw's are going for about 179 after rebates...
but the rebates are through rebatesHQ which suck balls and don't like to give them up easily...
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johnoh -- DVD-RW still has two big problems: (1) several non-compatible standards (+R,-R,+RW,-RW,-RAM) and high price because they stil are too new. Sony is the only one that I know that handles both the + and - modes. No one except Pansonic does the RAM one. But Sony also is the most expensive. I'm biding my time until it all sorts out a bit more.
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I'd wait on any DVD writer; I bought the latest Sony. None of these burn DVDs that are playable on any set top box; some you can fiddle around and create more compatible DVDs. You may get lucky and all your friends and you own players that work - only to get another DVD player later that won't read them.
I was looking to see if my Sony at least had a third party utility to increase compatibility and as it turns out Sony is so proprietary they haven't even released specs to let people write utilties that might trigger a DVD to be usable in more set top boxes.
I've tried +/- and some DVDs play in some boxes and not in others. The software coming with it may sound great; but MyDVD isn't very flexible in options. I'm looking at buying Nero or some other burner software that may have ISO options. So the Sony bundled software is so much bloatware.
In the end: I got an overglorified CD burner and a 4.7-gig backup burner. Don't want to waste money burning DVDs if my DVD player dies and I have to get a new one that won't play the DVDs I burned.
Rip off? Oh yes: never do you hear magazine reviews telling users that chances of a burner making a completely compatible DVD are iffy at best. Magazines sell ad's; tick off advertisers with honesty and you loose ad money.
Hit and miss is the best you can hope for from current DVD burners for their intended purpose of burning a DVD that plays on set top boxes.
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