Posted by pavels on 08/09/06 06:12

littlejoeflub@yahoo.com wrote:
> billanderson@my-deja.com wrote:
>> I work in a small office -- we have about 10 Dell desktop computers for
>> staff use. The computers are a few years old and there's no chance of
>> replacing them any time soon. None of the computers has even a CD
>> burner, much less a DVD burner. They do have CD drives, read-only.
>> One of the computers -- ONE -- has a DVD drive, read-only. They're P-4
>> 1.5 GHz, 512 GB RAM.
>>
>> Occasionally we receive in the mail a work-related DVD we'd like to
>> view, or we receive data on a DVD, and we end up bumping from her desk
>> the poor woman who has the only DVD drive in the office. Also,
>> occasionally, we'd like to burn a CD or DVD. Or, as happened
>> yesterday, we receive a CD burned by someone who doesn't know what he's
>> doing and we discover the CD hasn't been finalized. None of our drives
>> would read it. I had to take the disk home overnight and finalize it
>> on my personal computer.
>>
>> So I want to propose to the office manager that we invest in at least
>> one DVD burner for the office. And if the cost isn't prohibitive,
>> perhaps we can purchase five or six for key people.
>>
>> I found this deal at NewEgg:
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Category.asp?Category=10
>>
>> $28.99 is a pretty good price. I think NEC is a good brand --
>> dependable hardware. But apparently these drives don't come with
>> software -- they're OEM. If they do come with software, they don't
>> mention it in the NewEgg ad. And price really is a concern here. So
>> here's my question:
>>
>> Can anybody recommend a good deal -- drive price in the $30 range --
>> that includes decent CD/DVD burning software? Or can you recommend
>> some freeware CD/DVD burning software that would play nicely with the
>> NEC drive?
>>
>> Also, I noticed on that NewEgg page a retail LiteOn drive for $33.25.
>> It comes with Nero and PowerDVD, though I can't tell whether they are
>> full versions or stripped down. Also, I am suspicious of the LiteOn
>> brand. Are LiteOn drives dependable? Would you recommend them for
>> office use? It would be light use -- we need their capability only
>> occasionally.
>>
>> Other recommendations? Thanks.
>>
>> Bill Anderson
>
> For their cd-rw burners LiteOn are ok. DeepBurner is a good freeware
> cd/dvd burning program that I use myself. Personally I'd pick the
> LiteOn DVD burner over the NEC one.
>
I used LiteOn DVD and CD burners for years. Great product.

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