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$35 CD Buners
Would a $35, LG 52x24x52 burner not work properly or go out on me in the
near future after I use it? Would it be better to buy a retailed burner for about $80? |
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:42:54 GMT, "Insoo"
wrote:: Would a $35, LG 52x24x52 burner not work properly or go out on me in the near future after I use it? Would it be better to buy a retailed burner for about $80? I presume you're talking about an OEM LG 52x24x52 burner. Those are quite good, and I heartily recommend them. The only thing you won't get vs the retail version a 1. Mounting screws. Gotta find small pc screws yourself. Most shops carry them. They used to give them to you free with a drive, but these days, you usually have to buy them. Most of the local stores charge a nickel a piece for the screws -- so add .20 to the price. 2. No internal audio cable. You can use digital audio extraction to play your CDs if you wish, but if you want to play the CDs via an analog connection, you'll probably want one of these. The alternative is to use the audio plug up front, but that looks horrible. Add $4 to the price. 3. A bit of confusion on the warranty situation. LG seems to have shifted their terms a bit when it comes to the warranty on the bare drives. They used to call them OEM, and back then, the warranty was with the store. With the my last couple of LG drives, the store called them "bulk" drives, and informed me that the warranty was through LG. Any problems beyond the 14 day exchange period with the store, and I had to RMA it myself with LG (same as the retail drive). Not nearly as convenient, but I get a bit longer warranty. The days of walking to the corner store and walking home with a replacement the same day are apparently over. You *DO* get software with it. Nero 5.5 or 6.0 with newer manufacture drives, and EasyCD5 with older drives. You can usually see the CD under the drive in the plastic, and can clearly make out which software you're getting. The newer drives with Nero don't come with a full printed manual. The older drives with EasyCD 5 do, but the trade off is that EasyCD5 is crippled in the older bundle. Assuming the drive's new and not a refurb, there's really no reason not to get it. ---------------------------------------- Thanks, MCheu |
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Insoo wrote: Would a $35, LG 52x24x52 burner not work properly or go out on me in the near future after I use it? Would it be better to buy a retailed burner for about $80? I agree with MCheu, LG are great burners. I have two and I have recommended them to others. All have worked just great. |
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"Insoo" wrote in
news:xGUOb.101602$na.53652@attbi_s04: Would a $35, LG 52x24x52 burner not work properly or go out on me in the near future after I use it? Would it be better to buy a retailed burner for about $80? If you wanted to get a cheap burner, I would go with a LiteOn 52x24x52 for around $45. Comes with all the mounting stuff, Nero, CD Audio cable, everything you need. -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk email: (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services |
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thanks for all the advice guys, I could just use the mounting screws and
audio cable from my existing 8x burner. I'm also looking at an LG DVD/CD RW combo, for about $70. What good or useful would a DVD burner be? "Insoo" wrote in message news:xGUOb.101602$na.53652@attbi_s04... Would a $35, LG 52x24x52 burner not work properly or go out on me in the near future after I use it? Would it be better to buy a retailed burner for about $80? |
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bet you could burn DVD's as well as CDR's
"Insoo" wrote in message news:BY2Pb.103446$I06.530528@attbi_s01... thanks for all the advice guys, I could just use the mounting screws and audio cable from my existing 8x burner. I'm also looking at an LG DVD/CD RW combo, for about $70. What good or useful would a DVD burner be? "Insoo" wrote in message news:xGUOb.101602$na.53652@attbi_s04... Would a $35, LG 52x24x52 burner not work properly or go out on me in the near future after I use it? Would it be better to buy a retailed burner for about $80? |
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"Insoo" wrote in
news:BY2Pb.103446$I06.530528@attbi_s01: thanks for all the advice guys, I could just use the mounting screws and audio cable from my existing 8x burner. I'm also looking at an LG DVD/CD RW combo, for about $70. What good or useful would a DVD burner be? It would be good for burning DVDs, but the drive you are looking at is not a DVD burner. It is a DVD/CDRW combo. That means it can: Read: CD DVD Burn CDR CDRW -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk email: (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:24:49 GMT, "Insoo" wrote:
I'm also looking at an LG DVD/CD RW combo, for about $70. What good or useful would a DVD burner be? There are DVD+/DVD-/DVD-RAM/CD-RW burners around now for about $100. If that one is not actually a DVD burner, you might want to wait. The main advantage of a DVD burner - if you're not burning movies of course - is its potential as a backup media. 4GB media is a lot more than 650-700MB CD's and makes backing up large hard disks a lot easier. -- Richard Steven Hack "Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" - and YOU have not killed me! |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:24:49 GMT, "Insoo"
wrote:: thanks for all the advice guys, I could just use the mounting screws and audio cable from my existing 8x burner. I'm also looking at an LG DVD/CD RW combo, for about $70. What good or useful would a DVD burner be? I presume by *combo* that you mean a DVD reader with CD-RW burning capability. Those aren't the same as DVD burners. The biggest drawback to going with a combo drive is the speed. They tend to have slower CD read speeds (even if the specs say otherwise) than a CD-RW drive. If you want to watch DVD movies on your computer, fine, but if you don't, I'm not sure the speed trade off is worth it for DVD read capability. As for DVD burners? With a DVD decoder card or software decoder, you'll be able to watch DVD movies. You'll also be able to burn data onto DVD writeable discs, and with the right software, design your own DVD video discs. As far as data discs go, the currently available single layer DVD-R/W, +R/W, discs can hold up to 4.7Gigabytes, which is a fair bit. You'll still be able to burn CDRs and CDRWs, but again, burn speed for the CD formats will generally be slower than achievable on the faster CDRW drives. If you do go for a DVD burner, I'd suggest looking at the LG 481S or the NEC 4x DVD+/- burner that's been making the rounds (not sure of the model number). I'd avoid the LG 4040B. I bought one of those, and while it doesn't seem to have any trouble burning DVDs or CDs, it *does* have some trouble burning DVDs at its top advertised speed -- at least in North America. I've never been able to burn any faster than 2x with any media, and I've tried a wide selection from what's available locally (TY, TDK, EMTEC, HP, Ritek, Princo, etc -- all 4x, both - and + variants, as well as RW discs from EMTEC and HP). Oddly, if you live in Europe, you may have better luck getting full speed out of the drive. Hopefully a future firmware update will fix it, but until then, consider it a 2x DVD burner. It seems to burn CDs at its rated speed without problems (but it's rated speed is a pokey 24x though). ---------------------------------------- Thanks, MCheu |
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