Lite-On LVW-5001 Price Drop at Costco

[JohnnyCNote]

I was in Costco today and saw that the Lite-On 5001 had dropped in price from $219 to $199. Fortunately, they'll refund the difference for up to 30 days, so now I have to make another trip to Costco and take my receipt. In any event, this is a great price for a new in the box DVD recorder....

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I was in Costco today and saw that the Lite-On 5001 had dropped in price from $219 to $199. Fortunately, they'll refund the difference for up to 30 days, so now I have to make another trip to Costco and take my receipt. In any event, this is a great price for a new in the box DVD recorder....

Great price. Soon to be $99.00....maybe. Time marches on. I've been saying it for a number of years. Michael where's that VCD player? No thank you.

[naturalzinc]

my costco doesnt sell lite-on drives, they sell TDK drives though. where do u live?

also have you bought any of the TDK media from costco lately? know the media code of the DVD+R 25 packs for 29.99?

[lordsmurf]

my costco doesnt sell lite-on drives, they sell TDK drives though. where do u live?

also have you bought any of the TDK media from costco lately? know the media code of the DVD+R 25 packs for 29.99?

R-E-C-O-R-D-E-R ... not burner

[JohnnyCNote]

have you bought any of the TDK media from costco lately? know the media code of the DVD+R 25 packs for 29.99?

In fact, I bought some today. Here's the info:

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID RICOHJPNR01
Media Product Revision Number 02h
Free Blocks 405405696
Free Capacity 4.38GB(4.70GB)
Book Type DVD+R
Media Type DVD+R
Media Id Code Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

00000000 08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 52 49 43 4F 48 4A 50 4E 52 .......RICOHJPNR
00000020 30 31 02 38 23 54 37 09 00 3C 67 00 AC 62 16 18 01.8#T7..<g..b..
00000030 0B 0B 0A 0B 01 19 1B 0B 0B 0E 0F 01 00 00 00 00 ................

I copied 2 movies in EP mode and it came out great....

[naturalzinc]

thanx c-note, big help!

and piss off smurf... u always gotta make some smart ass, unhelpful coment

[lordsmurf]

thanx c-note, big help!

and piss off smurf... u always gotta make some smart ass, unhelpful coment

I made a kind correction to what was your obvious oversight to understand we're all talking about DVD recorders. A recorder is not a writer/burner, especially when you're in the "DVD RECORDER" forum. If anything is "smart ass" here, it was your response and your lousy attitude.

[JohnnyCNote]

I just tried copying 3 movies in EP mode. The quality was acceptable - about the same as EP mode in VHS. The movies were all black & white, and the contrast wasn't as great as it could have been. Also, in some spots the motion was slightly jerky. Still, the problems weren't enough to render the movies unwatchable. They came out better than my efforts to transfer from VHS to DVD via a video capture card....

[donpedro]

and piss off smurf... u always gotta make some smart ass, unhelpful coment

kind of stupid comment from you.... I am not aware of any TDK DVD Recorders and he was just trying to make sure that you are not confusing recorders with writers.

[lordsmurf]

Costco's around here (Dallas) do not have any LiteOn drives. In fact, I got stupid looks from the stupid salesmen. I was wanting to get one for short term (may have likely returned it). The only place in stock is CompUSucks with their 15% rape return fee.

But I grabbed the JVC DR-MV1S in the meantime while I shop for the new JVC or the LiteOn 5005

FYI: I sold off my Apex recorders, they're not going to be able to handle the high volume of work I want them to do. Was starting to get some power-on issues that are the beginnings of a dead PSU.

The hunt for the perfect LSI recorder is on...

The 5005 from Ritz is what I'm eyeing right now. I'll keep the DR-MV1S until the DR-MV10S comes out (VHS-less version). I'll be adding my review of the JVC on the JVC topic elsewhere.

[JohnnyCNote]

I may have said it before, but I'm hoping the local Costco will get the 5005. If so, I'll return my 5001 and get one.....