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It's all about being customer friendly. Unfortunately blu-ray isn't. Regioncodes all over again. This is the main reason I don't touch the format. I love HD, I love owning movies, but don't expect me to love taking DRM+restrictions in the rear.

When I pay for something I wan't to be able to do with it as I please. With blu-ray I can't.

As long as they obviously hate their customers, the customers will dislike them.

On the bright side, there is a very good alternative out there. One...
26 Feb 2008 18:51

This has been done before. One of the first apps to rip DVDs called dvd2vcd did the same.
7 Jul 2006 13:51

Optodisc may produce a nice pi/po result at times, but I have serious doubts to their lastability. The 4x ones were horrible.
5 Oct 2005 14:37

My forum posts:

Bios settings are set to the default settings, no tweaking at all. Why would IRQ matter? I don't see how an irq conflict could cause this, especially since usb/ide would be on two completely...
20 Feb 2006 12:25

Unfortunately I have a MSI mobo and the other dude an ASUS one. Still interesting though because this proves there is actually a problem.
19 Feb 2006 17:31

Well as mentioned, every other burner works. The other guy with the same problem has a different mobo, but same chipset. I was hoping this was a problem someone could help me with instead of the...
19 Feb 2006 17:07

Its win2000 so it only shows DMA or PIO. It was set to DMA when it was internal, but I don't see how this should apply since 1. same bug in both internal and USB and 2. There was never any...
19 Feb 2006 16:45

410W psu (chieftec), and the usb2 box has its own supply. Bios is the newest version, and ive had 4 optical units in the machine before with no problems. Furthermore I dont have 2 pioburners in it...
19 Feb 2006 15:18

At the moment I have The benq and the lite-on as pri master/slave. Nec is set as sec master (HDs are on seperate s-ata controllers). The pioneer 110 is in an external USB box as I dont have to...
19 Feb 2006 14:38

I own both a pioneer 109 and 110, and they both have random lockups on my nforce4 based machine. I use normal windows IDE drivers, and other burners like the BenQ1640, nec3500 and Lite-On 1673S work...
19 Feb 2006 12:19

I guess this is part 7 of my scanspam. 4x media galore. This drive does not seem to like 4x sony at all. It even refused to burn my 4x fortis media (also sony...
5 Jan 2006 16:21

I think the problem is the price. I have both 2.4 and 8x verbatims, but they are too expensive, atleast for me, to just waste on random data.
30 Dec 2005 13:10

As requested, here is a 16x dvd+r burn done in the 1640 and scanned with the 1655. As you can see, the spikes are still there. I can do a 1620 burn too if wanted.
30 Dec 2005 12:12

Seems im back. Good to hear my scans are appreciated. So I figured out it was time to test the LightScribe capabilities of the drive. Random pic taken from google pics and burned at "best". Took...
30 Dec 2005 12:08

Right then.. I won't be posting any more scans at all then. And I was far from done. Nor will I probably bother posting scans from other drives as I get them.
29 Dec 2005 17:55

Again I make my point that I don't scan to prove that my media is better than someone elses media with the same drive. I would dare to say that since this is a followup to a great drive, namely...
29 Dec 2005 16:19

Different drives scan differently - This is true, and this is exactly WHY I use the 1640. I did not make these scans so I could see if my TY scan was better than someone elses TY scan. I made these...
29 Dec 2005 15:34

I use the 1640 for scanning because that's the drive I've scanned all my other media with from other drives (LG4167, 1640, plex 716, pio109 etc). This way I can best compare media quality between the...
29 Dec 2005 15:08

Spartane: I did a test of the 1640 when it was brand new, and I must say I find those results better than with the 1655. So in my opinion its a bit of a letdown. Still a great drive though.
29 Dec 2005 00:32

Part 6 of my "scanspam" Writer BenQ 1655 Scanner BenQ 1640/1655 Reader NEC4550 Readgraphs will only be posted when they aren't 100% good. Brand TDK 4x DVD+RW Speed 4x Media...
28 Dec 2005 19:43

Chill out. I do tests, not gfx. I actually don't even have a gfx manipulation program installed. Anyway, point taken. I was on a modem for 6 years before getting broadband, so I know all about...
28 Dec 2005 14:07

Part 5 of my "scanspam" Writer BenQ 1655 Scanner BenQ 1640 Reader NEC3500 Readgraphs will only be posted when they aren't 100% good. Brand BenQ 8x DVD+R Speed 8x Media...
28 Dec 2005 12:08

He doesn't, trust me Sorry about the size though, but since it was a dedicated princo spam, not such a bad thing afterall
28 Dec 2005 00:46

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