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| Posted by | Dennis |
| Posted on | 28/06/02 18:55 |
First things first as we check out the contents of the VisionTek Xtasy 48X package. In the box VisionTek send to us we find the following things:
- The VisionTek Xtasy 48X drive itself
- Quick installation guide
- Quick start guide
- IDE 40-pins flatcable
- Audio cables
- Mounting screws
- Nero Burning Rom 5.5 disc containing;
- Ahead's Nero Burning Rom
- Ahead's NeroMediaPlayer
- Ahead's InCD
- One blank 40x 700MB Xtasy CD-R
(manufactured by Princo*)
As we see it, the package could have done with some more extra's like a CD-ReWriteable disc and perhaps some certified 48x media. The CD-Recordable disc delivered with the VisionTek drive was detected as 40x with Lite-On's SMART-BURN Media Check Program. The 40-pins IDE-cable that came with the drive only had two connections (one for the mother-board, so leaving only one connection for another device) and we prefer cables that have three since then you can attach more than one device with it.
The VisionTek Xtasy 48X is shipped with Ahead's Nero Burning Rom 5.5. This software package doesn't need an introduction anymore and it's our personal favourite. Ahead's packet writing software, InCD and NeroMediaPlayer are also part of the Nero Burning Rom 5.5 disc.
VisionTek offers a one year warranty on the Xtasy drive and, as with all Xtasy products, VisionTek provides web-based and toll-free lifetime technical support.
The Drive:
| On the front of the VisionTek drive we find the Xtasy logo (sticker), the supported speeds (48/12/48) and the 'High Speed CD ReWriteable' logo. Besides that we have the usual headphone jack, a volume control, a busy/write LED (green means the drive is powered on, detecting disc activity or reading and red means the drive is writing) and of course an eject-button. |
One the back of the drive we find the usual IDE and power connectors, the MASTER/SLAVE jumpers and the SPDIF (analog/digital) output connectors.
The Software:
As briefly mentioned when we listed the package contents, the VisionTek Xtasy drive is shipped with the popular burning software Nero Burning Rom. This software, by many people, is considered to be one of the best software packages around when it comes to your CD and DVD burning needs.
Nero Burning Rom Interface
With Nero Burning Rom you can perform many tasks varying from simple data and audio compilations to full MPEG-2 encoding (via plug-ins) and MP3pro-file creation.
Besides Nero Burning Rom we also have Ahead's packet writing software, InCD. With InCD you can turn your CD-ReWriteable discs into large floppy discs and use them as such (files can be saved, renamed and deleted). InCD now also supports the 'Mount Rainier' format which we'll get back to later on in this review.
Last but not least we find NeroMediaPlayer on the Nero Burning Rom 5.5 disc. NeroMediaPlayer is a complete player with which you can play your audio files (from hard disk or from a CD-Rom) and it even supports CD-text. You can also use it to record audio files to WAV or MP3 format:
NeroMediaPlayer
On the next page we'll take a look at the features the VisionTek Xtasy 48X...
Introduction
Seems like smartburn isn't that smart. Might want to put that down as a con.
Seems like smartburn isn't that smart. Might want to put that down as a con.
If you had read the negative points you would have noticed we did mention that:
SMART-BURN feature isn't always correct
Personnaly I think the price is a bit high and I think most freakers won't like this
Don't care that I spent $140 on it.... its the best!
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