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Summary: Excellent value
Review: After a little shopping around, I purchased this product based on its positive reviews and high sales rank. I am very satisfied. The drive comes with a large software and mp3 bundle, which includes trial versions of various video, sound, and image editing programs. As far as I can tell, the only worthwhile (i.e. non-trial) program included is InterVideo WinDVD 3.1. The drive also comes with a one-year warranty for RMA service.Installation is the same as any other 5.25 inch drive - set the jumpers and plug everything in. If you use Windows, make sure to enable DMA mode on the IDE controller in the Device Manager; playback was extremely choppy before I did this. I have also found that playback is little smoother with CyberLink PowerDVD 4.0 than with the included software. Overall I have no complaints and highly recommend this drive.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY PACIFIC DIGITAL PRODUCTS!!!
Review: For the price I paid (got for a very low price after rebates), I think this DVD-ROM is great. During installation I had hickups. The drive was identified but would not open when the eject button is pressed. I had to use the eject option from Windows 2000. After that it has been a breeze. Eject button started to work fine after ejecting from PC once. It works fine with CD, CD-R, DVD single layer and dual layer. I have not tried CD-RW yet. I think its worth upgrade on the PC.
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Summary: 16x DVD - ROM
Review: For the price I paid (got for a very low price after rebates), I think this DVD-ROM is great. During installation I had hickups. The drive was identified but would not open when the eject button is pressed. I had to use the eject option from Windows 2000. After that it has been a breeze. Eject button started to work fine after ejecting from PC once. It works fine with CD, CD-R, DVD single layer and dual layer. I have not tried CD-RW yet. I think its worth upgrade on the PC.
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Summary: Top notch quality with affordable price
Review: I am running Win2K. I just replaced my existing CD-ROM, installed the included software and that's it. This product let you do the ff:
1. Capture DVD frames into clipboard or file. If captured frame is redirected into file, filenames automatically created sequencially in BMP format. This case, I used ACDSee to convert all captured files into JPEG at 65% compression in few clicks. Capture Image size could also be configured.
2. Forward and Backward at various speed or traverse frame by frame.
3. Enable/Disable sub-title
4. and more...
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Summary: DO NOT BUY PACIFIC DIGITAL PRODUCTS!!!
Review: I BOUGHT A PACIFIC DIGITAL EXTERNAL CD BURNER FROM AN INTERNET SELLER. IT CAME BRAND NEW IN A SEALED BOX WITH ALL THE WARRANTY CARDS AND EVERYTHING. I AM HAVING TROUBLE INSTALLING IT SO I CALLED PACIFIC DIGITAL SEVERAL TIMES FOR HELP ONLY TO GET VOICEMAIL. MY EMAILS WERE NEVER ANSWERED EITHER. WHEN I FINALLY GOT THROUGH SOME INDIAN SOUNDING GUY TOLD ME I COULDN'T GET SUPPORT BECAUSE I BOUGHT IT FROM AN "UNAUTHORIZED SELLER"!!THAT IS UNCONSCIONABLE!!! THIS COMPANY WILL BE OUT OF BUSINESS SOON BECAUSE THEY DO NOT STAND BY WHAT THEY SELL.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY PACIFIC DIGITAL PRODUCTS!!!
Review: I BOUGHT AN EXTERNAL CD BURNER FROM AN INTERNET SELLER. IT CAME BRAND NEW IN A SEALED BOX WITH ALL THE WARRANTY CARDS AND EVERYTHING. I AM HAVING TROUBLE INSTALLING IT SO I CALLED PACIFIC DIGITAL SEVERAL TIMES FOR HELP ONLY TO GET VOICEMAIL. MY EMAILS WERE NEVER ANSWERED EITHER. WHEN I FINALLY GOT THROUGH THEY TOLD ME I COULDN'T GET SUPPORT BECAUSE I BOUGHT FROM AN "UNAUTHORIZED SELLER" THAT IS UNCONSCIONABLE!!! THIS COMPANY WILL BE OUT OF BUSINESS SOON BECAUSE THEY DO NOT STAND BY WHAT THEY SELL.
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Summary: Five stars all the way, best buy DVD rom
Review: I bought this DVD and installed it the other day. Installation was a breeze, and software was easy to use. This is a real good product for its price and quality. If you are looking for a DVD rom for your computer, this is the best buy. :)
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Summary: decent...for a while
Review: I bought this to play DVDs--nothing else. That it does. However, it's a little slow extracting audio and recently the tray started getting stuck when opening and closing.
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Summary: Stay away from this one if you own a Dell 4550 Desktop
Review: I consider myself Windows XP saavy. I tried to upgrade/replace my existing Samsung CD-ROM drive with this DVD-ROM Drive. Despite all my efforts (fiddling with Cable Select (CS) jumpers, changing CS to Master, changing out the IDE Cable to a non-cable select cable), this DVD-ROM drive simply would not work. I even checked out the BIOS of the Dell 4550 Desktop to ensure the drive was enabled and set to "auto". As soon as I purchased another DVD-ROM drive (BTC Brand) it worked.. out of the box...
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Summary: Great DVD drive
Review: I had no trouble installing this drive and the software that it came with. It works well out of the box. I did have some frame drop problems due to having too many programs running in my system tray - but this is not due to the drive itself. If you are having frame drops try closing all other running application. Also I was able to configure this drive very easily under Linux with no major issues (had to learn about all the DVD options are out there!) I found that it works natively under mplayer and I was extremely happy. In summary this is a great drive and I'm very happy with it -- well worth the price.
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