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to keep or not to keep??

  • 26-06-2005 10:39pm
    #1
    wanwarlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭


    hi all,

    i just bought a sony dvd burner in the uk (DW-Q28A), oem for 36pounds. the thing is i already have 1 cd burner (philips 52x burner) + 1 dvd rom drive (samsung 12x drive). which 1 should i keep? the cd burner or the dvd drive or sell them both on boards :D and just use the new drive?? any pros & cons for this??


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  • #2
    Ianaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭Ianaldo


    lose the dvd drive id have to say, sure the dvd burner should read dvd's anyways!


  • #3
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,091 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Keep the DVD-ROM, useful for copying DVDs. Also, you should get a better price for the CD burner?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #4
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    keep the dvd rom. i had the same dilemma myself :D if you want to copy a dvd on the fly (dvd in rom, blank in rw) you cant if you get rid of the dvd rom. since you wont be using the rw part of the cdrw its essentially a cd rom and a dvd rom is more useful.

    unless you're so very efficient that you wat to copy a dvd and a cd at the same time :)


  • #5
    juliuspret
    Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭juliuspret


    Keep the DVD-Rom drive for general day-to-day CD/DVD reading and chuck the CD-RW as the DVD RW can do all its work from now on.


  • #6
    RE*AC*TOR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,482 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    ditch em both - does anybody actually copy dvds on the fly?


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  • #7
    juliuspret
    Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭juliuspret


    Keep the DVD ROM drive and use it for the donkey work so that the DVD RW lasts longer as eventually the laser/motor in the DVD RW will age and a DVD ROM drive is much cheaper to replace than a DVD RW drive!!!


  • #8
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    I'd say get rid of both. Maybe keep the DVD drive but I can't really think of a good reason to keep it. I didn't think you could copy DVDs on the fly, any software I've used takes an image first and then writes that image (Blindwrite does this, even if the original is in a separate drive). Similarly DVDShrink will image and transcode a DVD before writing.

    Bear in mind though that a DVD drive and a CD Writer aren't worth much, maybe €10-15 each, so you might be better off to hold on to them in case you want to use them in say a second computer or that.


  • #9
    wanwarlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭wanwarlock


    thanks for all the replies guys. might keep the dvd-rom like ppl said for general cd/dvd playing and use the dvdrw drive for cd/dvd burning.

    so anybody wants to buy a philips cdrw drive then??? hehehe, will post later in the shops thread.

    cheers all.


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