Santilli
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I went over to the NEC 3520 burners, two in each machine, and, I thought I would go over my general impressions, aside from the usual review type stuff.
The Sony had pretty much determined how I ripped stuff around here. Since I use my extensive DVD library at school, I was not about to take an original to school, for theft, and vandalism.
Ripping With DVD Shrink had taught me with the Sony, that ANY compression meant pixelated movies, and poor playback, even when using Sony 1X-8X media. I had a stack of Memorex Made In Taiwain DVD-R's that had given me a very high coaster rate on the Sony, with, if playable, high pixelation, and gave up on them.
I flashed the firmware to 8x, as it should have been in the first place, and still had the same results.
I gave up trying to rip with any sort of compression.
Well, I just started using the Memorex disks with the NEC writers, since the supply of Sony disks has dried up, and I haven't scene a good sale on Taiyo Uden or Verbatim in my store browsing around here, for 16X disks.
To my shock, no pixelation, and so far flawless DVD's. Another shock is compression under DVDShrink seems to work, just fine, above 85%.
So, this reviewer gives the Sony a 0 star rating, using expensive media, was expensive, and burned at half the speed of the NEC. So far, the NEC is flawless, inexpensive, and burns on nearly all media.
s
I went over to the NEC 3520 burners, two in each machine, and, I thought I would go over my general impressions, aside from the usual review type stuff.
The Sony had pretty much determined how I ripped stuff around here. Since I use my extensive DVD library at school, I was not about to take an original to school, for theft, and vandalism.
Ripping With DVD Shrink had taught me with the Sony, that ANY compression meant pixelated movies, and poor playback, even when using Sony 1X-8X media. I had a stack of Memorex Made In Taiwain DVD-R's that had given me a very high coaster rate on the Sony, with, if playable, high pixelation, and gave up on them.
I flashed the firmware to 8x, as it should have been in the first place, and still had the same results.
I gave up trying to rip with any sort of compression.
Well, I just started using the Memorex disks with the NEC writers, since the supply of Sony disks has dried up, and I haven't scene a good sale on Taiyo Uden or Verbatim in my store browsing around here, for 16X disks.
To my shock, no pixelation, and so far flawless DVD's. Another shock is compression under DVDShrink seems to work, just fine, above 85%.
So, this reviewer gives the Sony a 0 star rating, using expensive media, was expensive, and burned at half the speed of the NEC. So far, the NEC is flawless, inexpensive, and burns on nearly all media.
s
