DVD Writer Purchasing

[boosters]

I am purchasing a DVD Writer, but i am confused which one is best today. Anyone please suggest so i will quick buy that DVD Writer. I have a Benq CD Rom and Asus CD Writer.

[Choto Cheeta]

ASUS / Liton / Sony / LG they are all good, dont know about Samsung, havent used it for long time since they used to have strange Tray Open a close problem

and thread should be at Hardware section...

[bhushan05d251]

SAMSUNG is the best.
Model : SE-S184M
(LightScribe)

Features

Specifications

[Lucky_star]

Samsungs are good, but some drives face a lot of problem with the drive tray.

I suggest you to go for Sony...Lifetime...you won't face any problem.

[boosters]

what about the LG

[Choto Cheeta]

not bad at all

[hsnayvid]

go for liteon 20x if it is available in your region...
best drives in the market and a complete bang for the buck!

[Lucky_star]

I have used Sony, LG, Samsung, and Liteon Lightscribe multidrive...and from my experience, Sony is the best. LG and Samsung are good initially...you can see the perfomance yourself after 1 year.
Liteon does work fine, without any problems

[reddick]

Go for SONY DVD-RW It's damn good yaar...personal experience

[NucleusKore]

I bought a Sony DRU-170C 15 days back. Its a very good DVD writer, but apparently its not upto the mark in reading! It reads all Digit magazine DVDs, video DVDs, but has trouble reading DVDs I wrote with my acer laptop which I sold recently (5002 NWLMI). It reads some and does not read others. Mind you all these DVDs open perfectly in Samsung and LiteOn drives

[Shloeb]

Go for a lite-on 20x. Look in the digit's previous issues, where a shootout has been done.

[Aniruddh]

Stay away frm LG,Samsung drives they sux big time,get urself either sony,asus or liteon.

[Choto Cheeta]

He will only go more confuse rather than getting actual help

[wizrulz]

SEARCH first....a request...

if u say BEST ..the really best then here it goes
1>PIONEER
2>Plextor
3> NEC
4> LITEON=BENQ
5> SONY
6>LG

[ax3]

liteon & sony is good ............

[vikasg03]

Samsung is the worst Player in PC market . Its all drives having Tray Problem... Go and search for any Samsung drive either in ur frnz system or in cafes. 90+% suffers from tray problem!

[Aniruddh]

@VIKAS i really dont agree with u,u said 90% of samsung drives give prblm especially tray thats not true i wud rather say 99% of samsung drive giv loads of prblm and tray 100% it is gonna giv prblms!!

[vish786]

i would suggest u to go for LG or Liteon...

dont go for samsung they hav problems often and slow reading and writing speed... my friend has one

[mavihs]

go for Lite-On All-Write 20x.

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[mobilegeek]

using BenQ .. working awesome

[ashishkhetriwal]

sony anyday...

[indian_samosa]

wow ...got to know one thing today about samsung drives ..their tray problem.I thought it was only my drive which was having tray problem..now I know.

thanks a lot guys ..i ll stay away from samsung.

[AcceleratorX]

I don't know which is BEST, but I do know that Philips, Samsung and LG are pretty good right now, as is Sony.

1) LG's latest drives are very good speed wise. Their noise levels are slightly high though.

2) Sony's drives are OK, not bad for writing but the speed limits on CD Writing and Reading (not DVD reading and writing) ticks me off. The Sony drive I had conked out after 1 year, since then I never use Sony drives again. But overall Sony is pretty good if you can bear with the speed limits on CD reading and Writing (you can use the maximum speed by a specific function though, but you will have to do this again and again for each CD).

3) Philips drives are hard to find, but they are DAMN good. Not in terms of speed (but its still very good), but reliability is excellent, as is quality of burns.

4) Samsung's LATEST DVD writers are quite good to be honest. The SH-S182 series of 18x DVD writers (without lightscribe) have had problems, but if you get a "good" batch, then it works very damn well!

Here's how to identify:

For Samsung DVD writers, all the time I've noticed that the drives which have "Writemaster" logo on the drive itself (and on the picture of the drive on the box) are facing problems. The drives which have OCTOedge instead of writemaster on the drive itself and picture of the drive on the box, like mine, are running excellent!

The above information pertains to the non lightscribe SH-S182D drives, but keep this in mind while purchasing lightscribe models as well. My OCTOedge branded Samsung drive is doing exceptionally well!

[ax3]

liteon has 20x & has sony released its 20x model ?


which is sony`s latest drive, model name ?

[boosters]

OK Guyz,

I just Purchased a LG DVD RW 18x yesturday that the cost the 1650/ - , so that is correct cost in this DVD RW, Also i want to play PS2 Games on my PC , so there is any way to do this joke.

[karmanya]

Sony DRU-820 A (is good) otherwise opt for lite-on

[Choto Cheeta]

@karmanya

Did u read the post above u ??

as user said he has already bought a LG writer

@boosters

Price is more or less same... it certaily is not a bad buy !!!!

about running PS2 game on windows, search on the forum 100+ thread on the this PS2 games in Windows/PC topic !!!