I picked up one of these from www.aria.co.uk last week for £40 to replace the NEC 1300a drive I had had for just over a year. Installation is very easy, just a matter of connecting up a power cord and ribbon cable, only took a few minutes.
The drive will copy both -R and +R DVD's (and re-writeable) plus the usual CD's. Copy speed for a full DVD is about 9 minutes and a CD around 2. No software came with the drive, but DVD Shrink (free ware) and Copy ToDvd (£20) covers all your needs, and both programmes are easy and intuative to use. The drive copies DVD media at up to 16 speed and CD media at 48 speed. I have tried several different brand of DVD's and they have all worked without problem
This drive is quieter than my old one, and to be honest, I am amazed at the speed of recording.
This is the only drive I have in my main ...
rik_uk3 18.03.2005
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Advantages: Reads practically everything. Writes to TWO formats (+RW and -RW) Disadvantages: None so far, but disk costs make it more important not to waste any
news is that, unlike Betamax and VHS tapes, at least these things are all the same shape, so that, given a sufficiently versatile machine, it should be possible to read/play them all, even if you can only record one of them.
NECND-1300A
And this is where I FINALLY get to the point.
I?ve just bought a NECND-1300a DVD Re-Writer to put in my latest reincarnation of my PC. Not only can it read all the existing formats of DVD, but unlike the vast majority of its peers, it can actually write to TWO of them, not the more normal one. There is one other maker producing a similar machine at time of writing, Sony, but this is in such heavy demand that it is on very long delivery and/or higher priced.
At £220 for the retail version, complete with recording software bundle, the NEC doesn?t actually, when bought from www.dabs.com, cost ...
Advantages: Very Quiet Disadvantages: Somewhat prone to read errors
) which this NEC 3500 was purchased to replace can however happily extract data from this discs!
Another plus point is the noise, or rather lack of, from this drive. As it is in a PC placed under the TV in my living room, I was very pleasantly surprised by how quiet it is in operation, especially considering the relative budget price of the drive ...
Morrs 03.02.2005
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NEC introduces DVD burner with Labelflash technology. Labelflash burns custom motifs, lettering or images onto the top side of blank DVD media, giving users the chance to get creative when labeling their DVD and CD collections. The ND-4551 burner offers NEC's highest specification performance to date, plus Labelflash functionality. Innovative Labelflash technology simplifies the labeling of self-burned DVDs - e.g. for easy archiving - and also enables creative disc design. Eliminating the need for messy paper labeling systems, which are especially ineffective at high speeds and can damage the disc and drive. Labelflash offers a professional-looking, reliable alternative. Labelflash delivers high image quality, in 256 different shades. The labeling process can take as little as seven minutes, depending on the resolution selected. Both the top side and the data side of the disc can be labeled. To burn images on the top of the disc requires specialized media. Labelflash discs have a special top coating, 0.6 millimeter-thick, which ensures the image will not fade. However using Labelflash you can burn images on to the data side of any standard disc, in an area not already written with data.
