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i intend to nbuy a dual layer dvd writer... can someone tell me which is the best dvd writer and what's the price in new delhi...

Iomega is the best DVD writer you can get...

None can beat Plextor. But may be costly. Other brands are in range of 1800 to 2200. LightOn is very impressive, supports wide spectrum of Media including local brands. Asus can be one more to look upon. Avoid Sony & Samsung, i would rather suggest.

I have three of them Pioneer, Plextor & Light ON. Light On is the newest one with me. Pioneer is about to die as it is arround 4 years old.

Can check reviews of DVD-RW at cdfreaks.com

Sry, forgot to mention about Plextor ya it's the best.. Though expensive..
Plextor & Iomega are high duty devices...

This is the reply if u ask me:

Plextor > Iomega > Liteon > Sony/HP > Benq > Samsung/LG

But if u want value for money then Liteon/HP/Sony

No confusing just go for LightOn, if looking for cheapest & best [SST], If money is no problem, then go for Plextor.

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can someone tell me what's da price of plextor in new delhi...

u can check deir site

ashisharya said:
u can check deir site

whose site? If you know their indian site, please letus know

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LOL newer plexies are rebadged benqs. Get either a benq 1650/55 or LG H10N/H12N/H42N (not 20N/22N) or Asus 1608sp3 which is a rebadged Pioneer 111D.

Ch@0s said:
LOL newer plexies are rebadged benqs. Get either a benq 1650/55 or LG H10N/H12N/H42N (not 20N/22N) or Asus 1608sp3 which is a rebadged Pioneer 111D.

and whose rebadges are sony?

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The Sony DRU-830A is rebadged a Samsung and the GW-120A or whatever is a rebadged Optiarc.

Ch@0s said:
The Sony DRU-830A is rebadged a Samsung and the GW-120A or whatever is a rebadged Optiarc.

Who are original manufactures? Like I heard Pioneer makes OEM for 2-3 companies and Light ON for another 2-3 companies including sony etc

sony and samsung having same quality. i prefer go for liteon or asus. after DRU-830 sony not making good writer i replace two writer and get a samsung writer its also low quality

NIGHTMARE said:
sony and samsung having same quality. i prefer go for liteon or asus. after DRU-830 sony not making good writer i replace two writer and get a samsung writer its also low quality

That is correct. Sony & Samsung are not favourite here amy time. I too Light ON.

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@ashishkhetriwal if u r in banglore than its ok but if stay in other state than never go for LITEON as its service center is only in banglore

Last week I bought the Liteon 165H6S Lightscribe 16x and the LG H42N 18x witers and they are both pretty good though I find the LG has the edge in writing speed and quality over the Liteon. The LG cost me 1700/- and the Liteon 2950/-. I have read that the Liteons have a slight problem with -R media. I dont use -R media so I cannot confirm this.

Eazy said:
Last week I bought the Liteon 165H6S Lightscribe 16x and the LG H42N 18x witers and they are both pretty good though I find the LG has the edge in writing speed and quality over the Liteon. The LG cost me 1700/- and the Liteon 2950/-. I have read that the Liteons have a slight problem with -R media. I dont use -R media so I cannot confirm this.

I use only -R media with lighton and no problem. Rs 2950???? or 1950. i don't think its so costly. Presently LG is also OK.

Which speed edge? Do you mean you are writing at 18X? Which media? Speeds do not make big difference as you are never going to write above 4X or 8X on local media. It won't work properly. Safe writing only at 4X. Lot of incompatibility issues with this or that media & writers are prevalent.
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Desi-Tek.com said:
@ashishkhetriwal if u r in banglore than its ok but if stay in other state than never go for LITEON as its service center is only in banglore

Only you need a service center in your place if you have samsung writers or Hard disks. they are most frequent failures.

Apart from this, todays breed of writers hardly last for a year or so. Therefore, should consider it as piece for 1 year.

How abt BENQ guys?

premsharma said:
I use only -R media with lighton and no problem. Rs 2950???? or 1950. i don't think its so costly. Presently LG is also OK.

Which speed edge? Do you mean you are writing at 18X? Which media? Speeds do not make big difference as you are never going to write above 4X or 8X on local media. It won't work properly. Safe writing only at 4X. Lot of incompatibility issues with this or that media & writers are prevalent.

The Liteon 165H6S is a LightScribe writer like I mentioned - this costs 1K more then the regular writers.

If I burn same lot of discs the LG burns it a bit faster than the Liteon and when I check its quality with CDSpeed the LG burned disc shows a better result. I also confirmed the superior reading capability of the LG with commercially pressed media.

I have burned over 2 hundred Moser 8x media at 12x with no coasters in my BENQ 1640. I have checked the burn quality after completion with CDSpeed and I have not seen an unacceptable loss in quality caused by the burning of the 8x MBI media at 12x.

I have flashed modded firmware for my BENQ and Liteon which allows me to increase the burn speeds over the media's rated speed - I got these from Links in the CDFreaks forums.

I dont have the patience to burn at 4x

Eazy said:
The Liteon 165H6S is a LightScribe writer like I mentioned - this costs 1K more then the regular writers.

If I burn same lot of discs the LG burns it a bit faster than the Liteon and when I check its quality with CDSpeed the LG burned disc shows a better result. I also confirmed the superior reading capability of the LG with commercially pressed media.

I have burned over 2 hundred Moser 8x media at 12x with no coasters in my BENQ 1640. I have checked the burn quality after completion with CDSpeed and I have not seen an unacceptable loss in quality caused by the burning of the 8x MBI media at 12x.

I have flashed modded firmware for my BENQ and Liteon which allows me to increase the burn speeds over the media's rated speed - I got these from Links in the CDFreaks forums.

I dont have the patience to burn at 4x

LightScribe then fine. I can't take chances of burning at higher speeds, as I use writing for games. I have no experience on BenQ. Ofcourse cdfreaks is the place where I also look for these things

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premsharma said:
Who are original manufactures? Like I heard Pioneer makes OEM for 2-3 companies and Light ON for another 2-3 companies including sony etc

Duh... there are two sony drives in the market...the 830A is made by samsung and the GW-120A(not sure of exact model no) is made by Optiarc which is a Sony-NEC consortium.

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LiteOn or Benq for me!

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Can any one please mention the model of latest DVD Writer from sony and liteon which does't have lightscribe...

navino87 said:
Can any one please mention the model of latest DVD Writer from sony and liteon which does't have lightscribe...

The newest Liteon models I think are the LiteOn 18A1P and 20A1P DVD-Writers - but I could not find them locally. What they sell here are older models. The Lightscribe models have the same name except that the "P" in the model name is exchanged with an "H"

The Liteon writer I bought last week has a manufacturing date of Feb 2006 and the unit was sealed !!!

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shantanu_webmaster said:
Sony

Do Sony make any of the writers themselves ? I have read at CDFreaks that some of the Sony writers are made by Liteon and some were by BenQ and other makers too supply to Sony.

YOU KNOW ONE THING :

SONY IS THE BEST I EVER USED.. and it makes no difference to me that who makes it, and THE PEOPLE WHO CRITISIZE Cannot make SONY DIE

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Will definitely recommend a LiteOn (i.e. if you consider yourself as a poweruser and flash modding doesn't give you angina.)
It is the best community supported drive due to its resonable costs (checkout cdfreaks.com). Thus you'll find a range of features (not possible without a great deal of trouble in other brands) like RPC1 mode (region protection circumvention : google for LtnRPC)
I myself own one - gives excellent quality burns (though i may say it is somewhat slow as compared to other brands, but then you can always use Omnipatcher to increase burn speeds by hacking the firmware/ i.e. overspeeding).You can even add fancy multi colored LEDs for burn indication in selected drives (check codegurus, chemical brothers for hacked firmwares)

CPRM circumvention strategies may be possible in the near future (They say it can be done already. Damn Sony for DRMing our drives, ooh do I hate DRM)
Stay away from lg, benq if your pocket allows it and samsung is a definite NO.
Get a plextor if you can (better write quality and features, no frills , out of the box drives that just work great ) - worthy if you have deep pockets and want a good quality product with all the latest features though Liteon is definitely recommended if you are a control freak and hacker wannabe. If you can wait a few months, liteon is gonna relese 20x dvdrws in jan2007. May be available in a couple of months in India.

@Free Radical ..... sadly Plextor have stopped produvtion of CD/DVD writers....

*wesleytech.com/plextor-exits-cd-dvd-markets/

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But then, I use a LiteOn. Plextor is (was?) good but for us budget users LiteOn is the best. It loves even those unbranded shady dvds.You can feed it almost anything I got a good deal at Lajpat Rai 50 Writex blank DVD-R for Rs.625, and the write quality is amazing. 1year passed, no flaws.
much said, I almost sound like a fanboy.

Sadly LiteOns are not ubiquitous like lg, samsung and sony. They are driven by the power user market of US and dont have a good marketing programme here in India. Thus they seem to be lacking support.
LG support is good. But then beware of duplicates when the markets abound in a certain product/brand.

Ch@0s said:
LOL newer plexies are rebadged benqs. Get either a benq 1650/55 or LG H10N/H12N/H42N (not 20N/22N) or Asus 1608sp3 which is a rebadged Pioneer 111D.

i will second chaos (pardon my wrong typing but m used to this one)

i will prefer lg / benq

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I m planning to buy a LIteon for my desktop, after reading all these posts..!! ..

but do tell me which Model number I should buy..

i hope Liteon will last for long.....how much the avg cost for it..Is Benq 1650 more expensive .? I am from trivandrum..hope service centres are tere..
initially i thght og getti a dvd/cd combo drive, but relised tat it cant burn dvds..
Will i be able to use the liteon model for my laptop ? [ i will be getti a 2 year old Toshiba laptop, which has a dvd/cd combo drive only]..hope i can fit the Liteon cd rite to the LAptop too.??

sorry , i am a Novice ..pardon for my blunder

, if any in above posts..take care & thanks everyone..

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@Torrent
No u wont b abl to fit the same drive into Laptop as it has got a totally different body and shape of interface, though what u may do is u mi8 buy an external casing for the drive and use it as an external drive(Its my idea as we do it to a HDD).
Correct me people if i m wrong

I read in a forum that the new Liteon model 20A1P is available at Lamington Road Mumbai for 1900/- .... this drive is getting good reviews.

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I can't tell you which is the best, but as far as my openion is concerned you should go for SONY.
I am using SONY DRU-820A for last nine months and I didn't face a single problem. Yes Sony is not making DVD writters but remember one thing
__________________"IT'S A SONY"._________________________
Now You can get information about various DVD burners at www.sonyindia.co.in

parimal_xp2003 said:
but remember one thing
__________________"IT'S A SONY"._________________________

.... Current Sony DVD Writers are anything BUT a Sony

bought today ..liteon 160p6s ..@1950 in agra ..cant find any other model
working good ...
just wrote two dvds of techcom .
time taken around 10 min/dvd..@8x
is the time good or it shud be less than 10 min..

shashank4u said:
bought today ..liteon 160p6s ..@1950 in agra ..cant find any other model
working good ...
just wrote two dvds of techcom .
time taken around 10 min/dvd..@8x
is the time good or it shud be less than 10 min..

Speed is ok man. [8-10 minutes].

Lite-on has bought BenQ cd/dvd unit.

Buy BenQ DW 2000 or Lite-on LH-20A1P (without Lightscribe)
BenQ DW 2010 or Lite-on Lh-20A1H (lightscribe)
(previous version of SONY were OK, but beware of Sony DRU-830A, rebagged of Samsung SH-S182D. samsung is not reliable brand in CD\DVD writer)

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digiFriend said:
Lite-on has bought BenQ cd/dvd unit.

Buy BenQ DW 2000 or Lite-on LH-20A1P (without Lightscribe)
BenQ DW 2010 or Lite-on Lh-20A1H (lightscribe)
(previous version of SONY were OK, but beware of Sony DRU-830A, rebagged of Samsung SH-S182D. samsung is not reliable brand in CD\DVD writer)

hey , i was planning to get a liteon LH-20A1P..but im wondering whts this LIGHTSCRIBE

all about!!???
what it means to a DVD Writer without and Having a LIGHTSCRIBE..

what differnce it brings..?!!

do help me out..thanks evrryone..

torrent08 said:
hey , i was planning to get a liteon LH-20A1P..but im wondering whts this LIGHTSCRIBE all about!!???
what it means to a DVD Writer without and Having a LIGHTSCRIBE.. what differnce it brings..?!!
do help me out..thanks evrryone..

LightScribe is an optical disc recording technology that utilizes specially coated recordable CD and DVD media to produce laser-etched labels.
The purpose of LightScribe is to allow users to create direct-to-disc labels (as opposed to stick-on labels), using their optical disc writer. Special discs and a compatible disc writer are required.

*Not worth spending money on-if u ask me (costs abt 1K more for this)

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe
*www.lightscribe.com/