What dvd burner do you have?

[LTR12101B]

Just gone for a Liteon 1213S - not so sure I shouldn't have saved a couple of quid and gone for the better-hacked 812S instead - mind you, if the rumours are true, maybe a P-CAV mode, 16x and DL hack are around the corner ... 16x zone-CLV mode isn't really worth having, as it's a very samll zone at the end, about where many drives actully end up having to step DOWN due to increased error rate.

Liteon seen to be pushing back against the hackers, with the firmware now being encryted, and one firmware hacker being forced to remove auto-decrypt code.
This could be a mistake by Liteon, as one of the main reasons for regarding their drives is that they ARE hackable - they NEED it, as many people are getting far better results using write strategy swaps than with the supposedly "correct" strategy for the media.

Liteon DVD-RW drives: BAD drives, that can be made good - they also tend to bounce up and down with firmware, this version good, that version bad - later firmware is USUALLY better, but some media may take a real downturn in write quality.

If you need ONE drive to do DVD and CD-R, the Liteons have good CD-R write speeds, and can overburn - two things many other DVDR drives can be rather slack on - paired with a Liteon CD-R, I'd be more inclined to go for a Pioneer - a better DVD writer out of the box, with SOME firmware hack attention for riplock, RPC and speed.

[ChickenMan]

Had a Pioneer A05, gave that to my son, now have the 107D. Both can burn to any media, firmware hackable and no need for bitsetting as I just use Ritek -R's and yet to find a dvd player that cant play them.

[Poco81]

Pioneer 106D, LG GSA4120B, both RPC-1 running fine.

[slippery]

Sony DRU500A, LiteOn 411S, & a LiteOn 832S

[cogira]

Pioneer A05

[RASTABT]

Pioneer A07XLB & A07B and a (Lite-on 812) which I dont use.
The DVD's that I have backed up mainly DVD-R all play fine on the standalones PLAYERS..only media that I use are Taiyo Yuden, Prodisc, Ritek DVD-R.

[gastro]

NEC 1300A and NEC 2500 and an LG DVD-CD/RW combi all work fine, only use Ritek dye discs and not had a coaster yet (fingers crossed)

[DREEMTHEEF]

LiteOn DVD-Rom LTD163D
Region Protection removed using firmware update

LiteOn DVDRW LDW-411S
Memorex DVD+/-RW True8Xn

Both nice DVD burners. The Memorex burns certain x4 disks @ x6 speed. Not yet rich enough to afford the x8 media....also not in that big a hurry.
Use mine mainly for my business, digital slideshows. No problems and all is well so far The odd movie back up here and there as well

....Dreem

[polandro]

Just about to take delivery of a NEC ND-2510A.
I have a Liteon LTC 48161H Combo drive for cd burning, but this is my first DVD burner...

[Poco81]

Have purchased a notebook with the LG GWA-4040n DVD Burner works great shame no firmware available for it at the moment.

[PC-GUY]

Have purchased a notebook with the LG GWA-4040n DVD Burner works great shame no firmware available for it at the moment.

It would help if you said which firmware you have .

[ChickenMan]

I have just upgraded my Pioneer 107D to a Pioneer 108, its performing very well indead but yet to try any DL burning though.

[Poco81]

A1.01 if I recall correctly but more interested in a region free version, been searching for tree days but no luck, by the way LG notebook.

[fffclub]

LiteOn 812s + 832s no problems with either drive except RecordNowMax does not recognise the 832s and gives only Min/Max options to burn. ( even with the latest pxengine )

The Nero 6x that came bundled with it works surprisingly well, although I don't use it for burning movies only data.

Yet to try a DL disc, but the options are there in Nero.

[X-BoNeS-X]

Pioneer 105 and Pioneer 107D