DVD drive suggestions

[suresh]

Dear Friends,
I am about to buy a 16x DVD Readonly drive. Please suggest me a good drive with region free support.

Sony, Lite-on, LG, ASUS and Samsung drives. These are the drives that are available in India.


Regards

 

[The-poacher]

Lite-On for me but to make em Region free needs a firmware flash I believe (or s/ware)

 

[LTR12101B]

No current drives are region-free as standard, so the solution is always either: s

Software-only - eg. http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm
Hardware-only - reflash with RPC2 autoreset firmware
Miscellaneous hacks - eg. Reset hack, button push hack (very few drives)
Hardware + Software - RPC1 reflash, plus software to prevent software regioning taking over

try www.rpc1.org

 

[RASTABT]

There all good drives and not so long ago I got a Liteon 166 and used the Windows RPC-1 utility from here to make my drive region free took 2 seconds if that. I must say Pioneers are also good.
Best thing I would do is look at a range of drives and make note of their model number. Then have a search on the above link to see if you can find a tool or firmware for the ones your looking for..Pioneers link to region free can be found here. http://www.dvdrbase.com/showthread.php?t=37008

Toshiba. liteon or pioneer for mi and some sony

 

[serjer]

i don't recommend asus,sometimes very pricky with some badly burned dvdrs...samsung is somewat good,but heats a lot 2 much,has a long life span imo due to its heating,but reads everything...

 

[aybesea]

I like my Toshiba... one quick firmware flash and voila! Fast and accurate.

 

[mojo8850]

Id go with Sony... Need to firmware the drive though

 

[PC-GUY]

Lite-On for me but to make em Region free needs a firmware flash I believe (or s/ware)

Like poacher said lite-on I believe its the only way to go. My lite-on rips anything I put in it if its scratched or not. Also the best part is its usually the cheapest.