Posted by Rod Speed on 04/26/06 22:42

Ian Ozenthroat <ianozenthroat@ent.com> wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Looking at adding another one to my current Pioneer 109,
>> mainly so I have one in each of the main PCs.
>>
>> Makes sense to have more than one brand/model.
>>
>> I only care about what will burn almost any media, even
>> cheap and nasty media. I dont care much about burn
>> speeds, what I care about is a reliable burn on any
>> media without having to fart around doing test burns.
>>
>> So that basically means a brand/model that has
>> decent firmware support into the future, and decent
>> performance with the current firmware too.
>>
>> I mostly burn RWs, but do care about the R performance too.
>>
>> What do people like currently, particularly
>> those with the same criteria ?
>>
>>
>>
>
> LG GSA 4167
> Even does DVDRAM

What do you think about the videohelp comment that
the dual layer laser burns out in a very few burns ?
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdwriters.php?DVDnameid=1187&Search=Search&list=2#comments
While I dont burn DL much, that may well change if they get cheap enough.

Guess it makes some sense to go with the known 4167b rather
than the newer HA10A which is much less of a known quantity too.

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