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Summary: Terrific With Kodak EasyShare Software!
Review: This page apparently has a doppelganger! But we can make this page the one with the GOOD reviews, instead of the one with the BAD reviews! :)Seriously, I love this Iomega CD burner. I wanted an external one, because I didn't want to get my 1-year-old Dell taken apart, since it works so well! So, my sister bought me one for Christmas. Neither of us knew anything about CD burners. I had never even heard of Iomega.Burning digital photos to CD-Rs was my main interest, and it does that wonderfully. The Iomega software is not the easiest to understand, and unfortunately like many things today, it comes with no printed manual. But I finally figured out how to burn ALL the photos in MY PICTURES. There were 100's of them in the highest quality, and it took less than 5 minutes to burn them on the included Verbatim DataLifePlus CD! I then played the CD with Windows Media Player on my PC to make sure they were all there. They were. (I'm glad it was a Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-R they included, too, since that seems to be the one PC Photo most recommends for storing photos. ) I still have yet to figure out to get individual photos or folders to the work area to burn, without taking all MY PICTURES folders there, and then deleting what I don't want. I'm sure there is a way; I just haven't figured it out. Mainly because I really don't need to, since I discovered my Kodak EasyShare software recognizes the burner instantly, and controls it flawlessly. Thus, I just use the Kodak software. The top burn speed you can choose with the Kodak software is 32x, but it still burns 100's of photos in less than 5 minutes. Unfortunately, although the Iomega software downloaded with no problems at all on my Dell with XP, the XP MY PICTURES wizard will not recognize the Iomega burner at all. And the Microsoft Digital Image 9 Suite software recognizes the Iomega, and goes through the whole archiving/burning process...but the Iomega drawer never opens at the end, there are no photos on the CD-R, and the CD-R is no longer writable! These CDs also locked up my PC DVD drawer when I tried to play them! I just got that software, however, and have done no troubleshooting with it, so I don't know if that is a permanent problem or not. I've not done much music burning yet. I have used the Windows Media Player software to burn songs from my music library on both a Verbatim vinyl CD-R and a DataLifePlus CD-R. My CD player, an inexpensive compact, could not play the vinyl CD-R, but a friend easily played it on her more expensive CD player. Also, had the same situation with CDs burned with the Iomega software. I obviously need to go back to components.The Iomega software also has advanced editing features for burning vinyl records to CDs, but I also have the same type of thing with the Microsoft Digital Media Plus! Thus, I'm giving the Iomega 4 stars, even though the software is a bit confusing; because it's doing a wonderful job archiving photos!
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Summary: Terrific With Kodak EasyShare Software!
Review: This page apparently has a doppelganger! But we can make this page the one with the GOOD reviews, instead of the one with the BAD reviews! :) Seriously, I love this Iomega CD burner. I wanted an external one, because I didn't want to get my 1-year-old Dell taken apart, since it works so well! So, my sister bought me one for Christmas. Neither of us knew anything about CD burners. I had never even heard of Iomega.Burning digital photos to CD-Rs was my main interest, and it does that wonderfully. The Iomega software is not the easiest to understand, and unfortunately like many things today, it comes with no printed manual. But I finally figured out how to burn ALL the photos in MY PICTURES. There were 100's of them in the highest quality, and it took less than 5 minutes to burn them on the included Verbatim DataLifePlus CD! I then played the CD with Windows Media Player on my PC to make sure they were all there. They were. (I'm glad it was a Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-R they included, too, since that seems to be the one PC Photo most recommends for storing photos. ) I still have yet to figure out to get individual photos or folders to the work area to burn, without taking all MY PICTURES folders there, and then deleting what I don't want. I'm sure there is a way; I just haven't figured it out. Mainly because I really don't need to, since I discovered my Kodak EasyShare software recognizes the burner instantly, and controls it flawlessly. Thus, I just use the Kodak software. The top burn speed you can choose with the Kodak software is 32x, but it still burns 100's of photos in less than 5 minutes. Unfortunately, although the Iomega software downloaded with no problems at all on my Dell with XP, the XP MY PICTURES wizard will not recognize the Iomega burner at all. And the Microsoft Digital Image 9 Suite software recognizes the Iomega, and goes through the whole archiving/burning process...but the Iomega drawer never opens at the end, there are no photos on the CD-R, and the CD-R is no longer writable! These CDs also locked up my PC DVD drawer when I tried to play them! I just got that software, however, and have done no troubleshooting with it, so I don't know if that is a permanent problem or not. I've not done much music burning yet. I have used the Windows Media Player software to burn songs from my music library on both a Verbatim vinyl CD-R and a DataLifePlus CD-R. My CD player, an inexpensive compact, could not play the vinyl CD-R, but a friend easily played it on her more expensive CD player. Also, had the same situation with CDs burned with the Iomega software. I obviously need to go back to components.The Iomega software also has advanced editing features for burning vinyl records to CDs, but I also have the same type of thing with the Microsoft Digital Media Plus! Thus, I'm giving the Iomega 4 stars, even though the software is a bit confusing; because it's doing a wonderful job archiving photos!
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