DVD Burners

[drfsupercenter]

I saw that Micro Center has a Sony DVD burner for $35, is that any good or not? My TSST one is dying, anyone know of cheap ones that are good?

[dazuk1972]

I saw that Micro Center has a Sony DVD burner for $35, is that any good or not? My TSST one is dying, anyone know of cheap ones that are good?

I've had the same thing with dying DVD burners but it's said to update your Firmware. If you decide to, be so very careful you download and install the correct one otherwise if you don't, you'll ruin your drivers. I've had problems getting the correct one for Freecom so it's best for you to ask the experts here for further information.

I got so cheesed off trying and trying to get the correct Firmware I bought another DVD burner in the end to cut out the middleman. However, you might have better luck with the Firmware for your DVD burner simply because Freecom are lousy. I've only bought Freecom DVD burners.

When you meantioned about buying a cheap DVD burner, I hope you meant cheap as in a discount sale and not a cheap make. Cheap makes will die out a lot quicker. I wonder if Freecom is a cheap make because not only do they die out quick, their Firmware sucks; big time. Their Firmware as I mentioned never either downloads or installs.

I hope you fix things out soon.

Darren.

[drfsupercenter]

Sony is not a cheap brand, it's an OEM drive. Micro Center purchases thousands of brand-name optical drives for use in their "home made" PCs (Power Spec is their brand name). When the corporate agreement is done, they put what is left up on clearance. That's where I got the Samsung drive I have now, and they now have Sonys.

[dazuk1972]

Sony is not a cheap brand, it's an OEM drive. Micro Center purchases thousands of brand-name optical drives for use in their "home made" PCs (Power Spec is their brand name). When the corporate agreement is done, they put what is left up on clearance. That's where I got the Samsung drive I have now, and they now have Sonys.

I never meant Sony was a cheap brand and I know they are not, they are the best in the market. I mentioned what I did in my other post encase you were deciding to buy a different brand and chose for a cheap one.

Darren.

[Chewy]

sony buys their drives from someone else and then supports them for a while with firmware upgrades and then forgets about them, always better to just buy whatever drive you want from the company that makes it

right now sony is using nec's for their newer models

nec will usually have better support

course after a year if you haven't used it up, you might be able to crossflash it over to the manufacturer's firmware

[drfsupercenter]

So what are you saying, go for it?

Or does newegg have any good ones for under $35? And by good I mean Chewy-reccomended LOL, this TSST one doesn't bitset well... I know NEC does... and heck this doesn't even support disc quality scan.

Would that firmware upgrade thing fix my locked drive problem I ranted on earlier about?

[katzdvd]

drf,

I say sign up for the "back in stock" alert for the Benq DW1650. I purchased 2 of them when chewy first posted the link the other week. I have 2 of these drives from several months ago, & I am very pleased with them!

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=173835

regards, katz