Advantages: Extremely fast, Dual Layer, multi formats Disadvantages: Needs firmware upgrade for some DL discs
I have used a NEC 1100, then a NEC 1300, and now have the NEC 3500, and have found them all to offer excellent value for money and good reliability. I paid only £41 at www.ebuyer.co.uk and have found the drive to burn to all formats (plus and minus, r and rw : once and re-writeable).
It burns some discs faster than what it says on the disc, for example some 8x discs will burn at 16x. However I have had some discs that are 8x that only burn at 4x ... ...searching, I found that the NEC is rebadged for TDK and I flashed my drive with this firmware (2.78), and then the Datawrite DL discs worked OK. Please note that this invalidates your warranty but until NEC release firmware that supports Ritek based discs, it was the only way around it for me.
The DL discs give excellent results, but the cost is high at the moment for blank media. As mentioned, Nero was used to burn the discs, it recognises the ...
thevicar 29.11.2004
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Advantages: Very fast, very stable, well priced. Disadvantages: None which come to mind
As drives go, the NEC 3500a is nothing special to look at, a bit of a plain Jane with it's utilitarian beige facia, no headphone sockets and volume control (but who ever used these anyway?)
I needed one to convert some movie footage of my granddaughters first Christmas nativity play at her school for my daughter. Previously I had tried to convert it to VCD on a normal CD but the results were, shall we say, less than dissapointing.
So I had a look ... ...things) as they concluded that NEC had imposed something called a "rip lock" on the system in order to minimise the occurance of pirate DVD copying, or at least to make the process less easy. What the rip lock does is to slow the drive to about 1/2 it's capable speed when burning, this apparently is easy to over come by simply downloading a firmware update (not official of course which invallidates the drives warrantee) which allows the drive to ...
jimmymack007 02.01.2005
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