Recommendations for an External DVD Burner?

[Walter Biscardi]

Just go down to your local electronics store and pick one up. You should be able to get one around $100 or less. I have Philips I picked up at Circuit City about 6 months ago around $125 or so.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Jake Diamond]

Thanks Walter, I’ll check them out.

Jake

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I own 4 DVD recorders.
But of them, there’s one that is the most versatile, reliable and FAST I’ve ever used.

It records on DVD-R, DVD-RW,

AND

DVD+R, DVD+RW

AND

Audio CD (makes a great standard audio CD!)

AND

CD-V (video CD format)

It will FINALIZE a newly-recorded DVD in under 90 SECONDS!!
(Many other units take up to 15-30 MINUTES to finalize a single DVD… that’s a LOT of time spent WAITING.)

The Lite-On records DVD’s at HQ (1-hour) SP (2-hour) LP (4-hour) and SLP (6-hour).
And the image and audio quality is superb.
(Even the SLP recordings are very “watchable” unlike other DVD burners I’ve used.)

No component inputs, but it has S-Video (almost as good as Component. looks great) and FireWire for direct input from a DV source.

I used mine constantly for months… no problems.

This little gem can be found at (of all places) COSTCO, for the unbelieveable price of
$169.00.

I read a bunch of on-line consumer “reviews” of this unit (Googled it), and it sold me.

Here’s a link to Costco and the unit:

https://www.costco.ca/en-CA/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=10289826&whse=&topnav=&cat=4477&hierPath=79*4477*

They keep lowering the prices on these set-top DVD recorders all the time.

[Jake Diamond]

Thanks Matte, this sounds great. I was expecting them to be much more expensive.

Jake