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Summary: A year later and dead
Review: I bought my dvd burner about a year ago. Until now, it had performed beatifully. I only occasionally used it as a dvd burner, and cd burner. Now it won't even read a cd. I expect a longer life from my drives, and will be switching to a different brand.
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Summary: re: Mary Anne Bingham's
Review: I don't believe Mary's review
Cable select is used in very few computers..Only the Name Brands Compaq,HP,Dell,Gateway use cable seclect to make there customers buy their upgrade items. I build and repair computers for a living and if you don't know to check the master, slave and cable select settings of all the drives in your system before adding a drive to make sure everything is set up correctly you should not be upgrading your computer yourself.
I know people with this drive and it works great..
as a side note if your cable is a cable select cable replace it with a standard drive cable and set the drives to master and slave.. it gets rid of all the problems.
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Summary: Great dvd burner!!
Review: I havent bought a writer yet, so take this for what it is worth. but I have been doing a lot of research. The cendynes are white box (OEM) Pioneer units...and pioneers get great ratings from the hardcore video editing crowd. go to the forum at canopus.com if you dont believe me. those guys dont have old machines...they are running the fastest and the best so that they can manipulate video realtime. Some of them have even bought the cendynes because they are private labelled Pioneers and they are giving them good marks. On top of this, they are dvd-r as opposed to dvd+r, which apparently means the burned dvds work on a larger range of different dvd/tv machines. If you are going to use it for just data and not video, this of course makes no difference. (warning, this is only a 2x burner...there is a new 4x burner already out.
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Summary: not so fast
Review: I havent bought a writer yet, so take this for what it is worth. but I have been doing a lot of research. The cendynes are white box (OEM) Pioneer units...and pioneers get great ratings from the hardcore video editing crowd. go to the forum at canopus.com if you dont believe me. those guys dont have old machines...they are running the fastest and the best so that they can manipulate video realtime. Some of them have even bought the cendynes because they are private labelled Pioneers and they are giving them good marks. On top of this, they are dvd-r as opposed to dvd+r, which apparently means the burned dvds work on a larger range of different dvd/tv machines. If you are going to use it for just data and not video, this of course makes no difference. (warning, this is only a 2x burner...there is a new 4x burner already out.
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Summary: Great dvd burner!!
Review: It's a rebadge pioneer drive, it even says pioneer corp. on the drive itself. No problems burning back-up's of all my dvd movies with it using my pc, and so as burning home movies into dvd. Pioneer always makes good drive. For a cheaper media solution and better compatibility with standalone dvd players, I recommend this drive, especially the newer 4x that just came out.
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Summary: What system is the drive designed for???
Review: My guess is this drive and its positive reviews are
based on use on Macs - because neither I nor the TS
support people at Cendyne or Dell could get it to burn
a single DVD disc. We barely rescued my hard drive.
.
It caused my PC fits.
.
Unless you have an older computer, forget Cendynes
"ancient" intallation manual - "hello, is anyone
listening?" Cendyne, you forgot to include "cable
select" as an option over the old "slave versus master" dichotomy.
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I should have received more than a refund for my little
bundle of nightmares - ugh!MAB
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Summary: What system is the drive designed for???
Review: My guess is this drive and its positive reviews are
based on use on Macs - because neither I nor the TS
support people at Cendyne or Dell could get it to burn
a single DVD disc. We barely rescued my hard drive.
.
It caused my PC fits.
.
Unless you have an older computer, forget Cendynes
"ancient" intallation manual - "hello, is anyone
listening?" Cendyne, you forgot to include "cable
select" as an option over the old "slave versus master" dichotomy.
.
I should have received more than a refund for my little
bundle of nightmares - ugh! MAB
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Summary: Stay away from CenDyne DVD drives.
Review: These are great if you want to burn CD's but as a DVD burner they are the best if your looking to create a coster. Check out their website aka Pioneer, the support is equally poor. Be especially weary of the DVR-104 drives.
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Summary: Stay away from CenDyne DVD drives.
Review: These are great if you want to burn CD's but as a DVD burner they are the best if your looking to create a coster. Check out their website aka Pioneer, the support is equally poor. Be especially weary of the DVR-104 drives.
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