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Summary: DRIVE IS HORRIBLE...SUPPORT IS HORRIBLE...
Review: Congratulations, Philips, you've done it again...you've made a horrible drive and offer no support for it. The drive has burned only one DVD correctly in the months that I've had it. It will only burn onto Philips DVD+RW and Philips DVD+R discs. If you buy this, don't waste your money buying non-Philips discs, they won't work. And then when something does go wrong with the drive, they shift you around the Philips support sites. If you're going to spend this much on a burner, get an HP.
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Summary: DRIVE IS HORRIBLE...SUPPORT IS HORRIBLE...
Review: Congratulations, Philips, you've done it again...you've made a horrible drive and offer no support for it. The drive has burned only one DVD correctly in the months that I've had it. It will only burn onto Philips DVD+RW and Philips DVD+R discs. If you buy this, don't waste your money buying non-Philips discs, they won't work. And then when something does go wrong with the drive, they shift you around the Philips support sites. If you're going to spend this much on a burner, get an HP.
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Summary: Much better than older Philips burner drives
Review: I had one of the first CD-R drive (CDR2600) Philips made several years ago that I had wrecked many discs in. This time I got this drive with the computer 2.8GHz Compaq Presario 8000 I bought. I have to say it's a day and night difference. So far I have only used DVD+RW and CD-R discs and it worked flawlessly every time. The speed is satisfied. It surprised me that the drive writes faster with my old SCSI Jaz drive than with the 48X CD-ROM drive on the same bus with the burner. I have yet to try burn photo CD or VCD or video DVD. But for burning data discs, it's adequate.
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Summary: The drive works great for me.
Review: I have had no problems with my drive...I've used several different brands and types of disks....good clean burns each time. The software that comes with it is pretty good, too...Nero is considered one of the best.
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Summary: can't burn dvd+r's
Review: I have probably wrecked about a 12 DVD+R discs in this burner. I have 2.4GHz computer and have tried Nero 5, 5.5 and 6. I even took the advice of the guys at Philips to turn off every program in the task bar. Half of the discs cancel burning before they finish and the other half are mostly, if not entirely, unreadable. CDs and DVD+RWs work fine, but I already had a Cde burner and RWs cost twice as much as the Rs and they can't be put in DVD players.
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Summary: Very reliable
Review: I have read other reviews about this machine. Some had problems connecting it to Master and others to Slave. It worked both way for my PC. Now I can back up all those "A Bugs life", "Ants"....and other DVDs that I keep buying for my kids and they keep damaging. At first I could not back up some DVDs because of copy protection, but I now I can do that for any DVD. The Philips dvdrw228 can copy DVD on the fly very fast, as short as 20 Minutes, unlike some other writers that will take up to 1 hour or more on the fly. Also, it burns DVD perfectly, no over burn, or soft burn. Because it has an advanced system to major the best burn for the Disc (Discs are made differently).
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Summary: Very reliable
Review: I have read other reviews about this machine. Some had problems connecting it to Master and others to Slave. It worked both way for my PC. Now I can back up all those "A Bugs life", "Ants"....and other DVDs that I keep buying for my kids and they keep damaging. At first I could not back up some DVDs because of copy protection, but I now I can do that for any DVD. The Philips dvdrw228 can copy DVD on the fly very fast, as short as 20 Minutes, unlike some other writers that will take up to 1 hour or more on the fly. Also, it burns DVD perfectly, no over burn, or soft burn. Because it has an advanced system to major the best burn for the Disc (Discs are made differently).
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Summary: The drive works great for me.
Review: This drive works great so far. I've had it for a month with no major problems. The +RW format seems to be superior with better compatibility to the -RW format for what I use it for. (I have and use all 5 DVD recordable formats.) I have a problem with installing the software disk that came with it, and it seems to stem from having multiple DVD burners installed on the system (or perhaps using it on a ATA bus add-on card--the installer can't see the drive if it does a check purely through the ATAPI interfaces). But my drive generally works with my old software with appropriate +R/+RW patches installed. My only coasters that I've generated were due to my error, not the burner.
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Summary: Works great so far
Review: This drive works great so far. I've had it for a month with no major problems. The +RW format seems to be superior with better compatibility to the -RW format for what I use it for. (I have and use all 5 DVD recordable formats.) I have a problem with installing the software disk that came with it, and it seems to stem from having multiple DVD burners installed on the system (or perhaps using it on a ATA bus add-on card--the installer can't see the drive if it does a check purely through the ATAPI interfaces). But my drive generally works with my old software with appropriate +R/+RW patches installed. My only coasters that I've generated were due to my error, not the burner.
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