3 ULTIMATE questions

[dead_indian_walking]

1 - Pioneer or Sony as a burner?
2 - Nero, DVD clone or RecordNow Max as the burning software
3 - What ripping porgrams?

[bottle-necked]

Sony
Record Now Max
DVD Decrypter

[FOO]

You can't have 3 ultimate questions .

I like Pioneer , they were the first

[tompika]

1. Pioneer

2. Nero 6302 or RecordNow Max/DX

3. DVD Decrypter or AnyDVD 3

[SaSi]

1 - Pioneer or Sony as a burner?
2 - Nero, DVD clone or RecordNow Max as the burning software
3 - What ripping porgrams?

1) I have a SONY burner and advise against it. Take a Pioneer or a LiteOn.

2) There were times when Nero didn't know how to burn DVD Video and I didn't know how to use Nero. I found relief in RecordNow DX (that came with the SONY). I now use Nero 5.5.10.54 and 6 . Still have RecordNow DX but no use for it.

3) Way back, I was using SmartRipper. Until it failed on me. Since then I use DVDDecrypter without a single rip or decode failure. Also, DVDDecrypter appears to be much more capable in ripping damaged disks. Still use SmartRipper for demuxing ripped disks. (Not because DVDDecrypter can't do it, just that I learned my way within SmartRipper for that).

[AarontheRipper]

1. Pioneer
2. Nero or Recordnow Max
3. DVD Decrypter

[BJ_M]

1. Pioneer
2. Nero 5 or Recordnow Max
3. DVD Decrypter

[Magua]

Plextor burner
Nero

[andkiich]

NEC 1300A burner
Nero
DVDDecrypter/DVDShrink

[Thunder In Paradise]

1. Pioneer
2. CloneDVD
3. DVD Decrypter, or DVD Shrink

[lordsmurf]

Pioneer 104 or 105 or 106
Nero, DVD Decrypter
DVDDecrypter

The #1 most problematic burner (as per lordsmurf.com questions) is the SONY burner line. Most burner hardware issues/conflicts are SONY in nature.

[jeex]

1) pioneer, its been rocking my socks for a year now. (a05 & a06)

2) recordnow max, it always works. nero, it works sometimes, use it for cd burning only.

3) dvd decrypter, its become the 'industry standard'

[vcdforme]

1.Neither, I've returned both the Phiillips and the Sony, LITE-ON all the
way.
2. Nero
3. I don't rip

[FulciLives]

1 - Pioneer or Sony as a burner?
2 - Nero, DVD clone or RecordNow Max as the burning software
3 - What ripping porgrams?

Answers:

1.) Pioneer but I also like NEC.
2.) ImgTools classic version for ISO IMAGE FILE creation. DVD Decrypter for burning.
3.) DVD Decrypter for ripping.

Good Luck !!!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
If you don't yet have a DVD burner you might want to wait just a wee bit longer as dual layer DVD burners will be comming out sometime in 2004

[Flukesy]

Pioneer

DVD Shrink

Nero 6 (late versions) have never failed me

And VERY IMPORTANT HIGH QUALITY MEDIA

[tweedledee]

1 Pioneer as burner

2 AnyDVD and CloneDVD to rip and burn.

3 Don't need anything else.

[sdsumike619]

Well I have to add my .02 here... I have just gotten started with DVDs and I loved nero for burning CDs so using DVD workshop, I would write the .iso file to the hard drive and use nero to burn the image to the DVD. Every single one has worked thus far. After reading many posts on these forums, I had put a post up asking for advice to achieve the lowert error/most compatible DVD.. Part of the advice people had given me was to use RecordNow for the burning of the DVD. I've tried two so far, and both have turned out to be coasters. When I put them in my Sony tabletop DVD player, it gives the message "disc is dirty"...so maybe someone can give me some insight into why this is happening, but until then, I think I'm going to go back to good ol' Nero!

[Hardcoreruss]

Pioneer
Nero
Dvd Shrink or Dvd Decrypter

[rhegedus]

1 - Pioneer or Sony as a burner?
2 - Nero, DVD clone or RecordNow Max as the burning software
3 - What ripping porgrams?

1) I use a Sony DRU500 and it's worked great, but don't know enough about Pioneer burners to recommend one over another.

2) Nero - I've used enough burning software to know that for burning alone, Nero is great. DVD clone is good for cutting out menus but haven't tried it's burning funcrtion.

3) DVDdecrypter or Smartripper.

[slopokey]

1 BOTH I run them at the same time
Sony 510a Pioneer 106d

2 Nero

3 Dvd Decrypter



slopokey

[Bodyslide]

Pioneer 107
Prassi
DVD Decrypter

[zworg2]

1) I wouldnt know, i use a Plextor and have had no problems.

2) Nero

3) Decrypter and or Shrink

Only coasters i have made have been my fault!!!