Which External DVD Burner should I buy?

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I bought a Samsung DVD Burner but was also looking at the Sony DVD burner.

I have including the link to these two burners below.

Has anyone used either of these burners? Can you tell me which one is better.

Both are made in Indonesia, except the power cable for the Sony Burner is made in China.

 

Also the Samsung Burner has lightscribe which I really dont care about.

 

Bottom line, which of these burners will last longer and is a better technology.

 

Here are the links to the two burners.

 

1. http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=computersperipherals&type=opticaldiscdrives&subtype=dvdwriter&model_cd=SE-S184M/AMBN

 

2. http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665200476

 

Have you used any of these?

 

Also what would you consider better blank DVD+R DL Disc? Are there better blank media?

 

Thanks, AI

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Just so you know I'm already using the Samsung Drive and it appeared to be working okay. But I just want to make sure I'm not missing on the Sony Drive.

 

AI

[Paully]

Hey AI,

 

Seems you're locked in on your product choices, but I bought an earlier version(PX-716UF) of this http://plextor.com/english/products/px-810uf.html a couple of years ago, and it works great. So far it hasn't balked at any disk brand tossed in. I can vouch for Plextor.

 

Best, Paul

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

 

I bought a Samsung DVD Burner but was also looking at the Sony DVD burner. Bottom line, which of these burners will last longer and is a better technology. 2. http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665200476 Also what would you consider better blank DVD+R DL Disc? Are there better blank media?

 

 

The SONY DVD ReWritable are better then any other brand. For example all SONY named:

 

DVD

[Paully]

 

The SONY DVD ReWritable are better then any other brand. For example all SONY named:   DVD

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

Paul

 

The playback of a DVD on the same drive it was burned is not a problem, but there can be problems when delivering DVD's to clients.

[Paully]

Angelo,

 

I'm pretty sure that if that was the case for a particular consumer-grade DVD writer, they wouldn't be in business very long :D . Unfortunately the same holds true for big name(audio) CD burners, which can work fine on 99 different players, but on number 100 it craps out. Go figure .

 

Best, Paul

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

I guess we do not talk about the same. We produce and author DVD masters here since 2002.

 

It's no problem for any DVD-ROM or DVD ReWritable to read pressed DVD's.

 

The quality of burned DVD depends on the media and the burner.

 

Delivering the master to the pressing plant is uncritical because the master gets certified first. If anything is below the specification they return the master.

 

When a DVD ReWritable or DVD-ROM shows problems, we disassemble them. We have dozens of DVD drives with reading problems in the shelf.

 

The first DVD-ROM and combi drives delivered on all Mac's couldn't read selfburned DVD's, they had to be exchanged on the cost of the owners.

 

The staple of DVD's clients returned was so big one day, that I decided to test circa 35 different DVD-Player. There where only two brands which here capable to read all critical selfburned DVD's without any problem.

 

When clients want to use selfburned DVD's, for example at industrial fair, our nerves are regularly blank until we are sure everything works.

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

This is a panorama film where nine DVD's play on nine DVD-Players in frame accurate sync, they have to stay in sync for hours.

 

 

[Paully]

Gotcha! Thanks for the explaination Angelo.

 

Best, Paul

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

That's the finished product, a large bar in the exhibition stand of the BLS railway and boat company:

 

 

 

The film is of course moving on the nine screens...

 

 

 

BLS:

http://www.bls.ch/d/schifffahrt/wissen-fotogalerie.php

http://www.bls.ch/d/schifffahrt/schifffahrt.php

[Rabid]

I've had no problems with external drives from major names like Plextor, Lacie and Iomega. The cheap internal drives still give me occasional problems with what type of media I use. Verbatim had done better for me overall than any other brand. I have a few DVD burners that refuse to write to TDK. Two months ago I lost use of an internal Samsung DVD/DL burner when Verbatium changed their media. The Verbatium DVD+R DL 20 packs suddenly started arriving in a package with a new color scheme and I wonder if they now come from a different factory.

 

For the most part, burning is more of an issue for me than reading when choosing the brand of media. In my tests over the past year, if it burns in a drive it will usually read in others. I always check my written DVD's in a second computer with a different drive, and then put them in a standard DVD player connected to my television.