Posted by John C on 08/09/06 18:45

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:12:19 GMT, pavels <user@example.com> wrote:

>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.
Lite-on makes nice equipment.
If you are running Windows XP, it has built-in burning software that
works fine. As for playing DVD movies I believe Windows Media player
will with some plug-ins.

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