26-10-2006
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| Re: SH-S182D DVD-R Lead-In
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Originally Posted by Mr. Man I had purchased a SH-182D and returned it because it was failing to make a disc anything could read with SB03. I picked up a new one because it was on sale.... | Was it out of the $30 bin at the MicroCenter off Hwy100 in Minneapolis? Now you just *got to know* that the sales staff there knows *exactly* why those mothers were on clearance-pricing, and they *lied through their teeth* when I asked 'em why.
Long story short: I only wasted two platters (one data, other ISO-to-DVD) before I figured it out when neither would even appear at all in my laptop DVDrom drive even though they're mounting and playing fine in the Samsung drive. I bounce off Google to here, go "Huh...", pull out the platters and compare them -- and sure enough, the Samsung-burns start a millimeter farther in than everything else.
...! Riiiight....
Bloody motherhumpin' bastards....how in effin Hell do you screw something up like this? Who would release a burner into the marketplace without first testing its product on other drives? And then, when they know there's a problem, unload the things to fast-buck merchants rather than recalling, replacing or fixing them. It boggles the mind -- it's like Dilbertopia. Don't they care at all about their *image*?
Now thirty bucks plus one more for a pair of plastic coasters is no big deal, but that's only a tenth the cost of my value of the "free time" I've already wasted and have yet to waste wondering what the hell was going on, then returning the %$@$.
Please let me know what out there is reasonable and WORKS in the $50ish range (if anything). |
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