Testing the Benq 1650 and more

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

Can anyone speculate why the BenQ 1650/1655 OEM supply all of a sudden has dried up at the "Regular" places?

Is it possible that BenQ is planning to come up with some newer brand?

G!

[Chewy]

benq optical division was bought by liteon, european distribution is ceasing.

looks like the scan future is going liteon, they may drop it too

[gonwk]

Hi Chewey,

I am glad that I bought my 1655 few weeks back ... just as a back-up to my 1640 ...

Actually I took you guys advice and I am using my 1640 strictly for Decrypting my Originals and suing 1655 for burning. I am happily amazed at how good my 1640 is and as much as I have scanned and burned with it (~3000 dvd Burns & ~1500 cd Burns) ... it is still going ...

I should have bought me a 1650 from NE when they had them for a mere $27.99 including shipping.

Nonetheless, I will just stay with what I have for now and no more spares and see what will happen.

Chewy, what are your thoughts about my decision!?!?!

G!

[NightTran]

I still got one 55 and 40 in box ( that is why they dry out )

[gonwk]

You RAT!

[Chewy]

I am using my 1650 very sparingly

[NightTran]

I use my 55 for all - 40 for all + that is just easy for me to figure which are from which and I may put back my pioneer back to box since they can only burn good with DL ( can't rip fast either) time for my 40 back

[gonwk]

Hi guys,

@ Chewy ... I am confused what you are trying to tell me ... but may be I should stop being cheap and pay the $48 and buy me a 1650 for "Future Use" ... since I already have a 1655?

G!

[NightTran]

do you know that you can flash the firm ware 55 to 50?


BQ flasher

[Chewy]

I would baby that 1655(might even hold it back) and burn with another drive

you have 2 great scanners that are endangered species

[NightTran]

Now I think about what you said I need to put my nec back and burn the non MIJ stuff

Thanks Chewy

PS I have one question, I had 1620 that was in external box one day I try to put it internal and it does not do any thing no power can't eject disc any more, is it a way to test if it is dead or not?

[Chewy]

is it a way to test if it is dead or not?

sometime I just hook power up to open tray, if it doesn't open it's dead

[NightTran]

THanks, I will try one more time before I put my 40 back

[katzdvd]

you have 2 great scanners that are endangered species

What is on the horizon for "good scanners?" Is there any? Why are the manufactures removing the ability to do scanning?

[Chewy]

liteon's are coming out with test firmware and doing jitter measurement

hopefully we won't have to rely on verification and not being able to discriminate between a burn with 100 pif total and 10,000.