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Summary: Consistent reburns, nary a coaster
Review: Having recently acquired a newer DVD set-top that would actually play all the DVD formats consisently (my APEX cheapies whilst reliable with pressed disks were very choosy about which burned disks they'd recognize and they wouldn't recognize the "+" formats period. My new Maganavox set-top is chock full of features, reads .wma (a mixed blessing to be sure; I think many people see with apprehension the sudden rush to make things WM compatible; I don't mind another format choice, but Micro$oft, in the opinion of many much more learned is such matters than me, is determined to make Windows Media the only standard available, not the best or another choice. Fortunately, their main competition Real, according to a majority of learned ITers, produces even worse software than the Redmonites. In fact, Real Player is little more than a badly patched together (the IT equivalent of gum and bailing wire) collection of spy and adware. Many people think it obvious that Real has little interested in building good products and every interest in datamining without your consent or even knowledge if you're not IT savvy--or so THEY tell me. THEY know a lot. Everything in fact. Anyway, got off the beaten track. The Fuji products have been excellent. I find the + formats to be slightly sharper for video purposes and faster--tho' some burners won't work with them. I don't mind a "format war"--means lower prices for us--but + is clearly marginally, but noticeably superior to -. The Fuji products--of all formulas--have been consistent and, knock on wood, I've not coasterd a single one and I've recently been archiving a lot of data. Primarily with Nero, but also with CopytoDvd which uses the "Patin-Couffin" engine--whatever that is. But I highly reccomend all Fuji DVD media.
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