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stubenkastl · 17-12-2005

The firmware update does not help and the Liteon drive here at my location was more expensive then the BenQ 1640. A friend of mine has the BenQ drive and it works problem free. Before he had the same Liteon and ended up with pretty much the same experience. Because for me it is a huge act to replace the drive (bought it far away) I gave it up to use it for now. And you might not even be sure that the new one is not worse. I got tired of checking every single burned disk on an other DVD drive if it can be read what worked in case of both drives with only 1 brand of DVDs!!! And here again this brand was the 8x BenQ DVD+R disk - perhaps they really care about quality. And things like stated reading speeds on the Liteon box are a joke. It reads my DVDs just with 8x and if you have VCDs it takes more than 30 minutes to copy the about 600 MB VCD file to the HD. So forget it. But I realized that this burner age will have short legs anyway...

After this Liteon experience I ask myself for what people use their drives. I have now two 250 GB external USB harddisks what are mirrored. I can store there about 50 FULL DVDs what is a lot. What did I win? I do not have to wait endless until the write of the DVD and the data check is finished. I do not have to check them on an other drive if they are readable. And this for always two identical discs since you cannot trust those DVDs completely. I do not have to find out how many files fit on a DVD - I just copy to the HD what I want. I do not have to look for the DVD with certain data - I have them ALL at my fingertips. I do not have to burn a new DVD (or 2 in my case) if anything changed. I just replace the file/s. I do not have to carry a lot of DVDs with me - just take my HD AND can it use PROBLEM FREE at any other computer with USB - AND THIS FOR SURE. And I do not have the fear that when I have to buy a new DVD burner all or many of my disks might not be readable. What would be a nightmare since a have a lot of captured videos... And I like to use my computer as DVD player - it has hardware decoding and remote control.

So for me the Liteon was the beginning and the end of my DVD burning time. Somehow a good even if not cheap experience ;-) I know in the meantime very bad stories about useless DVDs with very important data - in those cases family videos. So let's burn this idea like Nero burned Rom(e) ;-)

17-12-2005	#12 (permalink)
stubenkastl New on Forum Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 18	Re: Liteon DVDRW SOHW-1693S - My Experience The firmware update does not help and the Liteon drive here at my location was more expensive then the BenQ 1640. A friend of mine has the BenQ drive and it works problem free. Before he had the same Liteon and ended up with pretty much the same experience. Because for me it is a huge act to replace the drive (bought it far away) I gave it up to use it for now. And you might not even be sure that the new one is not worse. I got tired of checking every single burned disk on an other DVD drive if it can be read what worked in case of both drives with only 1 brand of DVDs!!! And here again this brand was the 8x BenQ DVD+R disk - perhaps they really care about quality. And things like stated reading speeds on the Liteon box are a joke. It reads my DVDs just with 8x and if you have VCDs it takes more than 30 minutes to copy the about 600 MB VCD file to the HD. So forget it. But I realized that this burner age will have short legs anyway... After this Liteon experience I ask myself for what people use their drives. I have now two 250 GB external USB harddisks what are mirrored. I can store there about 50 FULL DVDs what is a lot. What did I win? I do not have to wait endless until the write of the DVD and the data check is finished. I do not have to check them on an other drive if they are readable. And this for always two identical discs since you cannot trust those DVDs completely. I do not have to find out how many files fit on a DVD - I just copy to the HD what I want. I do not have to look for the DVD with certain data - I have them ALL at my fingertips. I do not have to burn a new DVD (or 2 in my case) if anything changed. I just replace the file/s. I do not have to carry a lot of DVDs with me - just take my HD AND can it use PROBLEM FREE at any other computer with USB - AND THIS FOR SURE. And I do not have the fear that when I have to buy a new DVD burner all or many of my disks might not be readable. What would be a nightmare since a have a lot of captured videos... And I like to use my computer as DVD player - it has hardware decoding and remote control. So for me the Liteon was the beginning and the end of my DVD burning time. Somehow a good even if not cheap experience ;-) I know in the meantime very bad stories about useless DVDs with very important data - in those cases family videos. So let's burn this idea like Nero burned Rom(e) ;-)