hi buddies,

I have 2 dvd writers at home, a philips ed16 dvd r, and a liteon 1633sx.
it seems to me the liteon is faster to decrypt. got 7x against 5x(philips)

so far I backed up 40 movies. I used the TDK8x(work only at 4x write), and the verbatin -or+DVD 8x.verbatin works perfectly at any speed.

the liteon, is smaller than the philips.I would suggest to go with liteon.

tahts was my 2 cents on this greaaaaat forum.