Hey Charlie......advice

[ron173]

Charlie,

you will be glad to know I followed your advice,

QUOTE 'Get a f*cking A04! Don't be different.' UNQUOTE

Its ordered and should have by mid next week. Got it here in Oz, paid equiv of bout £300, which by time you take best price I could get in uk of 269+vat, (i wouldnt get vat back), plus cost of getting here, plus poss damage in transit, reckon I've done well.

Comes with a few goodies chucked in, plus in the unlikely event of any warranty issues, I'm dealing with Pioneer Australia direct, or almost.

Spec states 'supports 9.4G double sided DVD-R Media'

..........didnt know that, but nice to know its a bit future proof!

Cant make up my mind which drive to take out to make room for it now! .......my basic LG 52x, or my ricoh mp9120 dvd player/ cd burner.

The thought of two good drives is good, plus if I just use pioneer for dvd burns alone, can use ricoh for cd burns, hopefully extending life of pioneer. (incidentally, I burned out my first cd burner, due to use!) as I'm sure you are aware, there are two lasers in them, one reads dvds, other burns cds.

So reckon that'll be the way to go, bin the basic, keep a cd burner, and dvd burner.

BTW Messiah is superb, anyone reading this considering chipping, its worth the extra, by far!!

Friday night here in Oz, pub is calling..........

Have a good one!!


Ron

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[dust2dust]

leave cdwriter in for cds

lol double side is nothing special u will have to take disk out turn it over
dont get confused with dual layer

[charlie_ps2]

Nice one Ron! Don't forget to read my post "Understanding DVD/DVD-R Issues" when deciding on your DVD-Rs.

Good luck with it.

[ron173]

I was getting confused with dual layer!!

I plan only to use Pioneer and verbatim media.


Ron

[dust2dust]

out all cheap dvdr i tried i still recomend traxdata not 1 let me down yet kids give them some shit
maybe my good m8 charlie can find refletivity figures for these ive been unable to

[BG]

Hey Dust, do you or Charlie have a list showing the reflectivity of different brand DVD-R's and CD-R's...???

No that you straightened me out (lol, should have read closer) on the Princo issue, I can get them in DVD-R but still wondering which to use in CD-R...

Thanks to YOU and CHARLIE for all you guys help.........

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[charlie_ps2]

There is no table. Most manufacturers don't publish the data but quietly imply that they conform with the 45% - 85% reflectivity range specified by the international standard for a DVD drive to be able to read.

In fact we are only guessing that cheap media falls below this range because there is evidence in the difficulty some people have with the media. It could just as well be a crap dye in the individual disk or even the batch so that the burner thinks it's done a good job but the result is either a poorly defined opaque mark or an optically poor disk as a whole.

I'll be posting some more informationon this class of topic very shortly.