Daewoo CMC 902D

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Unreliable, poor value for money

...these now +R (no longer +RW) discs. The others I gave them to my friends for similar usage - of course I have warned them well in advance that these discs are not for important files. Media ID (important): The media ID for this batch is CMC MAG W02 according to DVDInfo. CMC is not a reputable manufacturer for blank DVD media. That could be the reason that this batch is not reliable. Always check the media ID no matter which brand it is. Even Sony and TDK media have fakes in the market - revealed by the media ID.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap annd Reliable
Disadvantages: Spindle casing the DVDs are packaged in not suitable for storing DVDs once opened

...This 'write once' pack of DVD +R is great value. At the moment Tesco are retailing these at £14.97 which works out to be about 30p each The pack comes in as a spindle pack with no covers. They are write once only at max speed of x8 and have a storage capacity of 4.7GB each. The +R format can be used in the following DVD machines: Technika Bush Alba Daewoo Goodmans Matsui Philips The following machines are also compatible with +R as well as -R Sony LG Liteon Sharp The hardware that only caters for -R and therefore cannot use the +R format are: Hitachi JVC Panasonic Pioneer Samsung Toshiba The spindle pack the DVDs come in is very flimsy cheap plastic so once opened the original casing is not very good to store the blank DVDs. However, this is a minor quibble considering the price they retail at... Read review

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Advantages: reliable, fast, good quality, not-too-picky, handles all formats
Disadvantages: limited to 8x reading from some formats, missing some 'expert' features eg cannot do disc quality scans or report C2 errors

...I bought my LG 4166B drive because it was reccomended as being reliable and I was anxious to avoid having some of the problems that I'd been having with a Sony dvd-writer. I was also interested in its capacity to deal with all different kinds of media, including DVD-RAM. Many people might think that all DVD-writers are pretty much the same, but unfortunately that is not the case. I've found that drives vary considerably in their ability to burn without serious errors on different varieties of media. Some drives are extremely picky about the media they can burn on and are not compatible with that many discs. You might find that your back-up material burnt to DVD is pretty much useless because the drive that burned it couldn't handle the type of disc you used and produced so many errors the disc was unreadable (this happened to me... Read review

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