Best dvd drive suggestion out of experience needed

[praka123]

samsung drives are now preferred by most assemblers here(latest news!).

 

[utsav]

Allmost all the dealers in my city have stopped selling samsung drives.the best selling drives here are asus and then lite-on.whenever i go to the samsung service center i find several drives kept for repair or replacement. but from the distributor from whom i purchased asus told me that asus and lite on drives rarely come for repair.

 

[The_Devil_Himself]

samsung drives are now preferred by most assemblers here(latest news!).

stop it fanboi.lol.Lite-on\sony\benq are best you can get in India.Pioneers are the best drives(but sadly not easily available in India).sansung teh sucker!(Dunno about the latest ones,but why take chances).

 

[praka123]

^^check the market for urself!a fact that samsung drives are regaining market!

 

[kalpik]

stop it fanboi.lol.Lite-on\sony\benq are best you can get in India.Pioneers are the best drives(but sadly not easily available in India).sansung teh sucker!(Dunno about the latest ones,but why take chances).

Samsung SH-S203 is the BEST DVD Writer in the market right now Check club.cdfreaks.com for more..

 

[desiibond]

^^check the market for urself!a fact that samsung drives are regaining market!

assemblers recommend products for which they get maximum profit.

 

[utsav]

Samsung may be regaining market due to their pricing coz they r selling their drives for very low price and people giv priority to cheap goods

 

[ayush_chh]

you can go for Sony or LiteOn

 

[hellgate]

any1 here knows from where to get a Pioneer drive in India (reliable online stores not a prob can buy from them).

 

[The_Devil_Himself]

Samsung SH-S203 is the BEST DVD Writer in the market right now Check club.cdfreaks.com for more..

Maybe,But I am not going to buy any samsung drive,I still remember how annoying was that self-door opening problem.

 

[zyberboy]

I have 3 samsung drives lying around one dvd,one cd drive and a cd writer, if i connect these all of them will start automatically to eject & close .
One of my friend thought it was a feature of samsung drives

 

[kalpik]

^^ I know.. Even i hated Samsung drives.. But their new ones are simply amazing.. The best writing quality.. Remember at one time even AMD had a LOT of problems.. But they are doing really good now

Check this: *club.cdfreaks.com/f61/top-5-optical-drives-january-march-2008-cast-your-vote-now-234126/

Samsungs are even leaving the Pioneers behind!

 

[praka123]

^ppl are still believeing the trio(benq-sony-samsung).and there are lot of complaints reg above brands these days

 

[zyberboy]

^^ I know.. Even i hated Samsung drives.. But their new ones are simply amazing.. The best writing quality.. Remember at one time even AMD had a LOT of problems.. But they are doing really good now

Check this: *club.cdfreaks.com/f61/top-5-optical-drives-january-march-2008-cast-your-vote-now-234126/

Samsungs are even leaving the Pioneers behind!

may be the new drives are good,but their old features may again pop up after some months usage lets wait n see

 

[praka123]

I read the link @cdfreaks and in their CD/DVD section: Asus or Pioneer that means asus drives are pioneer ones
Asus DVD Burner / Pioneer DVD Burner
similarly,*club.cdfreaks.com/clear.gif BenQ DVD Burner / Philips DVD Burner
*club.cdfreaks.com/clear.gif BTC DVD Burner / Emprex DVD Burner
*club.cdfreaks.com/clear.gif LiteOn DVD Burner / Sony DVD Burner
*club.cdfreaks.com/clear.gif NEC DVD Burner / Optiarc DVD Burner

 

[kalpik]

^^ No one has reported such problems in the newer drives so far! Anyway, i shouldn't defend it too much.. As i dont own one.. Im getting one this thursday though

I read the link @cdfreaks and in their CD/DVD section: Asus or Pioneer that means asus drives are pioneer ones
Asus DVD Burner / Pioneer DVD Burner
similarly,*club.cdfreaks.com/clear.gif BenQ DVD Burner / Philips DVD Burner
*club.cdfreaks.com/clear.gif BTC DVD Burner / Emprex DVD Burner
*club.cdfreaks.com/clear.gif LiteOn DVD Burner / Sony DVD Burner
*club.cdfreaks.com/clear.gif NEC DVD Burner / Optiarc DVD Burner

This means that the hardware is the same in some models of these drives.. The firmware differs though.. And that's what counts Anyway, you can always cross flash if the drives have identical hardware

 

[alsiladka]

I am in Pune and my dealer told me that LiteOn has a bad service. You need to send your hardware to Mumbai and a replacement takes 15 days.

 

[utsav]

Samsung has service center in my city but my drive was replaced after 28 days.thats y i got asus now.and samsung drives perform great in the begining but later they become headache

 

[ico]

My friend has just bought a Sony Optiarc DVD writer and it makes lot of noise......

 

[The Conqueror]

I have had Samsung DVD Combo,Sony DVD Combo.No bad experience with any of these but as i dont have a dvd writer i am getting LiteON (lightscribe) this saturday....