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Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's.
However I haven't got a DVD writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive.
Is this gift useless to me therefore ?- or can I use them in any way with my
existing drives?
Thanks.
 
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useless but you can get a good dvdrw drive for $80 or less. check out the
nec 2500a. or a dvd recorder like the lite on lvw5005 for less than $300.
personally i'm waiting for dual layer drives and recorders to come out later
this year.

"OrmesbyJohn" <NoSpamThanks@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's.
> However I haven't got a DVD writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive.
> Is this gift useless to me therefore ?- or can I use them in any way with
my
> existing drives?
> Thanks.
>
>
 
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Yes, it's useless to you.

--
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"OrmesbyJohn" <NoSpamThanks@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c9b1he$ja0$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's.
> However I haven't got a DVD writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive.
> Is this gift useless to me therefore ?- or can I use them in any way with
my
> existing drives?
> Thanks.
>
>
 
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On Sat, 29 May 2004 22:29:45 GMT As another one bit the dust
"wooducoodu" <wooducoodu@hotmail.com> wrote :

>useless but you can get a good dvdrw drive for $80 or less. check out the
>nec 2500a. or a dvd recorder like the lite on lvw5005 for less than $300.
>personally i'm waiting for dual layer drives and recorders to come out later
>this year.

What he said.Dead cheap now DVD/RW :)

>"OrmesbyJohn" <NoSpamThanks@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:c9b1he$ja0$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's.
>> However I haven't got a DVD writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive.
>> Is this gift useless to me therefore ?- or can I use them in any way with
>my
>> existing drives?
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>



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But not useless to me, if you are giving them away.

:)


the_gnome

"DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message
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> Yes, it's useless to you.
>
> --
> DaveW
>
>
>
> "OrmesbyJohn" <NoSpamThanks@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c9b1he$ja0$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's.
> > However I haven't got a DVD writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive.
> > Is this gift useless to me therefore ?- or can I use them in any way
with
> my
> > existing drives?
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
>
>
 
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On Sat, 29 May 2004 23:06:39 +0100, OrmesbyJohn while doing time wrote:

> Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's. However I haven't got a DVD
> writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive. Is this gift useless to me
> therefore ?- or can I use them in any way with my existing drives?
> Thanks.

As everyone has said DVD+RW is useless in a CDRW. I disagree with
getting cheap DVD writers. I'm in the market for a DVD writer. My 48x
CDRW (IOMagic) burns quite a few toasters and never burned anything faster
than 24x.

Check out http://www.vcdhelp.com for ratings of DVD writers and media used
by those DVD writers then wait for sale prices on the better rated models.
 
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> My 48x
>CDRW (IOMagic) burns quite a few toasters and never burned anything faster
>than 24x.

My $80 8x I/O Majic DVD RW drives burns 4x disks at 8x and none are
coasters. The disks were 10 for $10 at Staples. BTW it also burns CD's
at 40x.
 
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jaster wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2004 23:06:39 +0100, OrmesbyJohn while doing time wrote:
>
>
>>Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's. However I haven't got a DVD
>>writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive. Is this gift useless to me
>>therefore ?- or can I use them in any way with my existing drives?
>>Thanks.
>
>
> As everyone has said DVD+RW is useless in a CDRW. I disagree with
> getting cheap DVD writers. I'm in the market for a DVD writer. My 48x
> CDRW (IOMagic) burns quite a few toasters and never burned anything faster
> than 24x.
>
> Check out http://www.vcdhelp.com for ratings of DVD writers and media used
> by those DVD writers then wait for sale prices on the better rated models.
Then, depending upon the OS you have tried to use it in, you might have
the IDE set up with a hard drive, or, your resources might not be set
for the optimum in the driver setup page...

My TDK 48x-12x-24X didn't burn CD-r'sat 48x, but only 24X in Linux,
until I set it up properly in the config GUI... I run Knoppix
http://knopper.net/knoppix installed Debian on the hard drive, in about
20 minutes! Never had a coaster in Linux... but, had quite a few in the
MS environments...
 
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On Sun, 30 May 2004 16:34:55 -0400, AndrewJ while doing time wrote:

>
>
>> My 48x
>>CDRW (IOMagic) burns quite a few toasters and never burned anything faster
>>than 24x.
>
> My $80 8x I/O Majic DVD RW drives burns 4x disks at 8x and none are
> coasters. The disks were 10 for $10 at Staples. BTW it also burns CD's
> at 40x.

WinXP, XP 2000, 512 PC2700, 30Gb free and Verbatim 80 CDs burns audio
and video 24x. I might have gotten 48x a long, long time ago by accident
I'm sure.
 
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On Sun, 30 May 2004 19:43:03 +0000, Patrick while doing time wrote:

> jaster wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 May 2004 23:06:39 +0100, OrmesbyJohn while doing time wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's. However I haven't got a DVD
>>>writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive. Is this gift useless to me
>>>therefore ?- or can I use them in any way with my existing drives?
>>>Thanks.
>>
>>
>> As everyone has said DVD+RW is useless in a CDRW. I disagree with
>> getting cheap DVD writers. I'm in the market for a DVD writer. My 48x
>> CDRW (IOMagic) burns quite a few toasters and never burned anything faster
>> than 24x.
>>
>> Check out http://www.vcdhelp.com for ratings of DVD writers and media used
>> by those DVD writers then wait for sale prices on the better rated models.
> Then, depending upon the OS you have tried to use it in, you might have
> the IDE set up with a hard drive, or, your resources might not be set
> for the optimum in the driver setup page...
>
> My TDK 48x-12x-24X didn't burn CD-r'sat 48x, but only 24X in Linux,
> until I set it up properly in the config GUI... I run Knoppix
> http://knopper.net/knoppix installed Debian on the hard drive, in about
> 20 minutes! Never had a coaster in Linux... but, had quite a few in the
> MS environments...



WinXP 5.2600 something. I'm just set the thing for 24x or 8x and watch
TV or something for hour or two until it's done.
 
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On Sat, 29 May 2004 22:29:45 GMT, "wooducoodu"
<wooducoodu@hotmail.com> wrote:

>useless but you can get a good dvdrw drive for $80 or less. check out the
>nec 2500a. or a dvd recorder like the lite on lvw5005 for less than $300.
>personally i'm waiting for dual layer drives and recorders to come out later
>this year.
>
>"OrmesbyJohn" <NoSpamThanks@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:c9b1he$ja0$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Just been gifted a pack of DVD+RW Cd's.
>> However I haven't got a DVD writer - only a DVD drive and a CDRW drive.
>> Is this gift useless to me therefore ?- or can I use them in any way with
>my
>> existing drives?
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
dual layer drives are out a friend bought one yesterday at Best Buy,
couldn't find dual layer media thou.
 
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"jaster" <jaster@home.net> wrote in message
news😛an.2004.05.31.06.52.09.996706@home.net...
> On Sun, 30 May 2004 19:43:03 +0000, Patrick while doing time wrote:
> > jaster wrote:
> >> On Sat, 29 May 2004 23:06:39 +0100, OrmesbyJohn while doing time wrote:
> >> As everyone has said DVD+RW is useless in a CDRW. I disagree with
> >> getting cheap DVD writers. I'm in the market for a DVD writer. My
48x
> >> CDRW (IOMagic) burns quite a few toasters and never burned anything
faster
> >> than 24x.

> > My TDK 48x-12x-24X didn't burn CD-r'sat 48x, but only 24X in Linux,
> > until I set it up properly in the config GUI... I run Knoppix
> > http://knopper.net/knoppix installed Debian on the hard drive, in about
> > 20 minutes! Never had a coaster in Linux... but, had quite a few in the
> > MS environments...

> WinXP 5.2600 something. I'm just set the thing for 24x or 8x and watch
> TV or something for hour or two until it's done.

Something's drastically wrong if it takes that long to burn a cd! 8x should
be 10-13 minutes maximum, and 24 of course much less.

Chris
 
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On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:41:11 +0100, Not Me while doing time wrote:

> "jaster" <jaster@home.net> wrote in message
> news😛an.2004.05.31.06.52.09.996706@home.net...
>> On Sun, 30 May 2004 19:43:03 +0000, Patrick while doing time wrote:
>> > jaster wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 29 May 2004 23:06:39 +0100, OrmesbyJohn while doing time wrote:
>> >> As everyone has said DVD+RW is useless in a CDRW. I disagree with
>> >> getting cheap DVD writers. I'm in the market for a DVD writer. My
> 48x
>> >> CDRW (IOMagic) burns quite a few toasters and never burned anything
> faster
>> >> than 24x.
>
>> > My TDK 48x-12x-24X didn't burn CD-r'sat 48x, but only 24X in Linux,
>> > until I set it up properly in the config GUI... I run Knoppix
>> > http://knopper.net/knoppix installed Debian on the hard drive, in about
>> > 20 minutes! Never had a coaster in Linux... but, had quite a few in the
>> > MS environments...
>
>> WinXP 5.2600 something. I'm just set the thing for 24x or 8x and watch
>> TV or something for hour or two until it's done.
>
> Something's drastically wrong if it takes that long to burn a cd! 8x should
> be 10-13 minutes maximum, and 24 of course much less.
>
> Chris

Exactly. It maybe data goes faster vs SVCD where Nero spends most of
it's time transcoding the input but it's 1 - 2 for a SVCD. I'll run a
data burn and audio burn and see how that goes. Bottom line no longer
appreciate IOmagic.
 
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