I am leaning to a NEC, from what I have seen on CDfreaks.com speeds are faster with the NEC, not by much. But I already own a Pioneer, love it. but im feeling kind of brave and want to try something new.
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Originally Posted by Xdreamer
I will definately buy another NEC. After running some test's on it with stock firmware, i flashed it with hacked firmware to make it automaticaly set the book type to DVD-ROM on +R disc's. -
Originally Posted by tsantsa
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?p=157636#157636Still a few bugs in the system... -
Some say the 3520 is worse than the 3500. Anyone care to comment on that, or any experience theyve had with both?
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Hmmm.... well... IF the 3520A is worse than the 3500, the 3500 must have been one top burning machine!!!!!!!! 8)
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I meant anyone with an intelligent comment. No matter if its a new version its gotta be better right.
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Whoa...
Okay... well, i'll leave the little insult alone 8)
I never owned a 3500 so all i can speak of is the 3520A and the burns i have done with it play perfectly and the scans are great!!!!!!!!
All i need to know
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Originally Posted by NoahtuckI think,therefore i am a hamster.
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I know. Its also apparently hard to find a 3500 now as well. Even if the store/site says that what they are sending, people often just get the 3520.
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Originally Posted by johns0
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Noahtuck,3500 is generally regarded as a better burner than the 3520,maybe when the 3520 gets better firmware then it can be better.
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Pioneer for me everytime baught a 109 abt 3 weeks ago... my 3rd pioneer now..burns 8x at 12x and the 16x media rocks full disc in a little over 5 mins
Was a bit buggy at first but new firmware 1.40 sorted the probs used nero6 alchol 120 dvddecryypter no coasters as yet must admit i dont buy dirt cheap discs but then again i dont buy expensive ones.
Was hard decision for me pioneer v nec but i think its personal prefrence myself.
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A data burn on the 109 using Nero 6.0.11
A Movie burn on 109 using DVD Decrypter
A Movie burn on my old NEC 1100A using DVD Decrypter
All readings made using the 109 drive.
109 was flashed to 1.40 firmware.
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It says your NEC burned the RICOHJPNR01 better than your Pioneer 109 :P. The NEC 1100/1300 is a great burner (the 1300 includes -R media burning).
Transfer rate tests are also good for testing your media. You might want to do a transfer rate test of the RICOHJPNR01 discs for comparison. A relatively smooth transfer rate test almost always indicates a disc that will play back fine on a standalone, unless of course the standalone doesn't have good support of burned discs to begin with. -
In my opinion from observing disc quality scans the Pioneer DVR-109 is one heck of deal since firmware version 1.40 if you're concerned about quality over ultimate writing speed. You can even flash it with the Buffalo 8.40 firmware and have DVD+R single/dual layer bitsetting.
I currently own a Pioneer DVR-106 and DVR-108 and have been extremely pleased with both of them. -
Well, I have a Pioneer 108 and a laptop NEC 3500. The NEC will only burn some 8X media at 8X. Forget Prodiscs or Rytek, only Taiyo Yuden will burn at advertised speeds. The NEC also has issues reading some burned discs. My Pioneer will burn the 8X Prodiscs at 12X.
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Slightly out of date, but still relevant:
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20041102/index.html
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Originally Posted by mcnabb311
I have burned Ritek, Prodisc, MCC, Ricoh, and TY and they all burn at advertised speeds. In addition, they are some of the best burns I have ever seen. People with both drives feel almost as good about the 3520. The burning speed complaints come from some who do not understand that the 8-16 speed burning starts at 4X and they ratchets up as the disc is burned. Also, external enclosures that use the Oxford 911 chip will not burn above 8X while the Prolific 3507 chip will.
Burning a disc at higher than rated speed does not make it a better drive. I have a BenQ 1620 with stock firmware that will burn 8X TYG02 at 16X. I have scanned the 16X burns and I will be sticking with 8X, thank you.
Just because you can make a drive burn faster than the rated speed does not mean you will get a good burn. I can set up my Liteon to burn 4X Princo at 16X and it is pure crap.Still a few bugs in the system... -
I've got a 3520 in one of my machines and have found that it digests a wide variety of media with good results. I've had Pioneer before, a 104 I think, and it was a good piece of equipment. I stayed away from the 109 because if I have to hack the firmware to get it to work or one of the major burning suites won't work at all, I'm just not going to bother. IMHO, calling software crap because it doesn't work on your equipment, when it does work on a wide range of other equipment says more about the person than the product.
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I have both an NEC 3500 and 3520 installed with zero coasters burned on a variety of media brands. The only downside is both have trouble reading certain pressed dvds made in china but I'm able to use my laptop Toshiba drive to extract problematic discs.
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I've had a few READ problems with my 109 but i think i've traced them to a faulty "ATAPI.sys" file in WinXP Service Pack 2.
Pioneer 109 (master) with OEM firmware and Toshiba 1712 (on slave), read with DVR-109
Pioneer 109 (master) with 8.40 firmware and Toshiba 1712 (on slave), read with DVR-109
After disconnecting the Toshiba Drive from the slave position and getting a clean result i ordered a newer drive (newer firmware) - Toshiba SD-M1912
Pioneer 109 (master) with 8.40 firmware and Toshiba 1912 (on slave), read with DVR-109
Is anyone else having trouble with the 109 that also has XP SP2?
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I've got an ND3500 and an ND3520 installed on my computer. My experience with the 3520 is that it is not nearly as good as the 3500. I've relegated the 3520 to just read but never write a DVD. Some may have not had problems but I certainly have and I've tried every firmware available. Personally, I will think long and hard before I purchase another NEC for my machine. I just don't think the new ones are as good.
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Originally Posted by Captain315
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I wish my experience with the 3520 had been as good as yours YukonXL. I'm not giving up on it just yet and will keep trying the newer firmware until I feel it's just a exercise in futility. Glad you have good luck with it.
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have burned Ritek, Prodisc, MCC, Ricoh, and TY and they all burn at advertised speeds. In addition, they are some of the best burns I have ever seen. People with both drives feel almost as good about the 3520. The burning speed complaints come from some who do not understand that the 8-16 speed burning starts at 4X and they ratchets up as the disc is burned. Also, external enclosures that use the Oxford 911 chip will not burn above 8X while the Prolific 3507 chip will.
Now you can post all the graphs, quotes and reviews you want, they can be helpfull. All I know is that from personal experience, with absolutely no errors and speed compared to slow writing and poor disc recognition, the NEC is inferior to the Pioneer. I have updated the firmware on the 3500 to try to get better performance out of it, but that has been futile so far. Hey it rips super fast on the 85% of the discs it recognizes, but that's not good enough for me. -
You're using the wrong FW then mcnabb311. Go over to CDfreaks.com for info on good FWs if your primary concern is fastest burning speed.
You can write a FW that allows every disc on the planet to attempt burn speeds up to 16x. That doesn't improve the drive's performance. -
I'll try out some new FW when I get a chance (really busy these days). But I don't know how much difference there is between a laptop 3500 or a desktop 3500. I have the laptop 3500 if you didn't catch that.
I'm not too optomistic about the FW helping me out however, because over at www.notebookforums.com there is this guy who has done extensive testing with this drive. He could only get certain few discs to burn at 8X. He used multiple FW's also.
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