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DVD burners - have you got one?


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What do you use it for?

 

What software do you use or do you just use XPs own burning app? (both my PCs aren't set up at the moment and my breezeblock lappie only runs 98, so I dunno what support XP offers)

 

Do I want one?

 

 

Basically most games now come on DVD and I haven't got a drive - trying to decide if I should just buy a cheapo £15 drive or a £35+ burner. I don't do camcording but we have 2 digital cameras that do movies, and I got a DVD recorder a few months back. Although it's got built-in editing abilties I dunno if having PC editing would be better. I guess I'm just finding out if I would actually use it or not. Any thoughts?

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I prefer Roxio CD and DVD creater to nero but just because I'm more used to it. To backup commercial DVD films you'll need DVD Decrypter (to bypass encryption, surprise surpise) and DVD shrink to fit them onto a single layered disk, both of which you can download for free.

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Ive got an old single layer NEC dvd+r burner...very accurate...havent had any coasters at all :) (a few due too crappy dvd-r's...n thats it :))

 

Always used Nero...but lately ive actually been using DVDdecrypter for all my "film-backups" :D Excellent program! :)

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Roxio EasyCD Creator makes baby Jeebus cry. I've converted a couple of folks from Roxio to Nero after they had problems with it. It's a weird bit of software in the way it tries to take over your system.

I was one of the converted. Nero is soooo much easier to use than Roxio :thumbs:

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i have 3 of them. tend to stick with pioneer as they more popular for support. had a nec and it did not seem to like certain dvdr`s

 

nero6 for music and data and making dvd backups

dvd decrytor

dvd shrink

disc jugglar pro

 

good quick way to free up hd space when downloading lots.

 

not gone with dual layer as the blanks still too expensive.

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Roxio used to be Adaptec, is that correct?

 

I used to love Adaptec but was foeced to change to Nero because back then Adaptec could write long filenames to files on CD (essential for my MP3 player in the car). Wouldn't go back now. Mind you, Nero has more than its fair share of bugs - mostly in the other applications in the suite.

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dvd shrink

 

Iiik! :D I reckon youre not using a bigscreen-tv/plasma/lcd then? :D DVDshrink is really awfall at making good quality dvd-5's out of dvd-9's :)

BUT...ill have to agree that its MUCH faster...than the ones that offer the best quality though :)

 

I use Pinnacle InstanCopy for this purpose....as i said...its MUCH slower than DVDShrink etc. BUT...the end result is really that much better...IMHO :)

 

So...if youre planning on upgrading your telly to a bigscreen pretty soon....id adwise to stay off of DVDshrink :)

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Iiik! :D I reckon youre not using a bigscreen-tv/plasma/lcd then? :D DVDshrink is really awfall at making good quality dvd-5's out of dvd-9's :)

BUT...ill have to agree that its MUCH faster...than the ones that offer the best quality though :)

 

I use Pinnacle InstanCopy for this purpose....as i said...its MUCH slower than DVDShrink etc. BUT...the end result is really that much better...IMHO :)

 

So...if youre planning on upgrading your telly to a bigscreen pretty soon....id adwise to stay off of DVDshrink :)

quite a lot of films you can get away with not compressing films if you take out all the extra languages and extras and just have the uncompressed film start without the annoying trailers that fill the dvd up. its the only the first program i have used like that. got lots of dvd software i have not tried. maybe not ideal, there is always dual layer writers but blanks still pretty expensive still. on dvd shrink if you highly compress films it will show up the compression.

brother inlaw has a SONY 60" widescreen that blows things up and makes things look crap. only have to look at cable tv to see how crap that can look.

when i used to have cable digital tv you could see the square pixels on a normal down to earth 25" tv

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quite a lot of films you can get away with not compressing films if you take out all the extra languages and extras and just have the uncompressed film start without the annoying trailers that fill the dvd up. its the only the first program i have used like that. got lots of dvd software i have not tried. maybe not ideal, there is always dual layer writers but blanks still pretty expensive still. on dvd shrink if you highly compress films it will show up the compression.

 

I totally agree :)

 

brother inlaw has a SONY 60" widescreen that blows things up and makes things look crap. only have to look at cable tv to see how crap that can look.

when i used to have cable digital tv you could see the square pixels on a normal down to earth 25" tv

 

I can really tell the difference on my 43" Pio. plasma...thats for shure :D

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When I *ahem* back up a DVD I alwaya only use the main feature with 5.1 sound - party as an incentive to one day buy the pukka item and also to limit the amount of compression that DVD Shrink has to apply. I've not made a DVD that I couldn't watch comfortably on my 42" plasma yet.

 

Don't forget that DVD Shrink has a "deep analysis" option as well...

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if you back up with no extras so you not compressing the film it should be same as original

 

if the dvd is dvd 5 you can do 100% backup on a single layer dvdr

if the dvd is dvd 9 you can chop extras out and foreign soundtracks or just buy a dual layer writer and back it up 100%

 

heard a lot of bad things with plasmas with dead pixels. is these new LCD tv`s better than plasmas.

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heard a lot of bad things with plasmas with dead pixels. is these new LCD tv`s better than plasmas.

Same as TFT monitors, they have a "tolerance level" applied by the manufacturer which you supposedly cannot get around, even if your "six maximum dead pixels" are right in the centre of the screen. It sucks, really.

 

I feel like I'm tempting fate here, but I've had mine for two years now and I don't even have one stuck or dead pixel yet. [touch wood]

 

As an aside, I had a from-new stuck pixel on my PDA and yesterday I noticed that it has un-stuck itself! :eek:

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7 day cooling off period ;)

 

Be very careful with the packaging, and if there are any dead pixels that you don't like the look of, package back up and send back under the 7 day section of the trading standards act. No reason needs to be given and no restocking fee can be charged, it just costs you the postage. Then buy another one :thumbs: Repeat until you are in pixel nirvana.

 

-Ian

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sister had a fault on her 50" sony before. she was going to get a plasma and was told sony wont fix plasma unless it has 7 or more dead pixels.

so she sent her 50" tv back and went up to a 60" looks good but cable tv is crap on it. just blows a crap signal and shows faults up more.

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