- Got my A06 today
- Posted by Thomas A. Horsley on June 29th, 2003
Best Buy had a few of them and I picked one up. In very limited testing, it
works fine and the Ulead DVD Movie Factory 2 software that came with it also
works (but took a really long time to render a slideshow of random jpgs
laying around on the system).
It comes with 1 each Verbatim DVD-RW DVD-R blank media (no DVD+ media, so I
haven't tried that yet).
The DVD-RW video I whipped out for a test plays fine on a newer DVD player,
but not on my very old Sony player (didn't really expect it to work on the
old player). Haven't tried DVD-R since I don't want to eat the disc just for
a test.
The only problem I've had so far was attempting to configure Dantz
Retrospect 6.5 to work with it - while doing the hardware tests to configure
this (non certified) device, the drive got into some kind of non-responsive
hosed state. I had to shutdown and reboot to get things back (of course, I
didn't really expect it to work since it isn't in the approved hardware list
from Dantz, but it was interesting just how badly it got hung).
I'm surprised at the ease of use of the Ulead software. I remember being
utterly disgusted with the interface of the Ulead video software that came
with my ATI Radeon a few years ago. Ulead seems to have hired some new
interface design talent since then :-).
I'm off to go badger Dantz about how I'd really like support for the A06...
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- Posted by tHatDudeUK on June 29th, 2003
"Thomas A. Horsley" <tom.horsley@att.net> wrote in message
news:ullvltzsx.fsf@att.net...
And it's no different whatsoever to the A05 appart from DVD+ and increased
CD write speed. Hmmmmm. I'd only use the DVD+RW feature as DVD-RW is crap
although you couldn't stop me using DVD-R at all.
- Posted by Mike.P® on June 29th, 2003
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 03:00:34 +0100, "tHatDudeUK"
<random_charsalwaysinterestspammers@btinternet.com > wrote:
Why is DVD-RW crap?
And considering the A06 could be had for £149 yesterday I would take
one over a A05 anyday, just for the extra security.
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- Posted by Aardie on June 29th, 2003
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 08:46:34 +0100, Mike.P® <cdrw@nospam.hotmail.com>
wrote:
Where ?
Thanks
Keith
Watch out for spamtrap to reply
- Posted by Mike.P® on June 29th, 2003
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:39:43 +0100, Aardie
<keith@aardvark.karoo.FOSPAM.co.uk> wrote:
http://www.digitalpromo.co.uk/
But it was only up to 4pm yesterday...something to do with their first
birthday...back to £174 now :-(
They have now:
Datawrite "RED" Top 4x Speed.
Fully Guaranteed 4x Speed DVD-R
£14.75 inc. VAT » per 25 PACK.
WEEKEND BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OFFER !
Unbeatable price on this VERY, VERY popular 4x DVD-R !
Equates to ONLY 59p per 4x disc !
Which again is only until 4pm.
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- Posted by SimMike- on June 29th, 2003
"tHatDudeUK" <random_charsalwaysinterestspammers@btinternet.com > wrote in
message news:bdlh86$u9nkl$1@ID-158809.news.dfncis.de...
DVD+R disks have yet to come down to a reasonable cost, unlike the supposedly
inferior DVD-R disks.
For a supposedly inferior format, 90% compatibility for DVD-R as opposed 85% for
DVD+R disks with standalone DVD players looks pretty darn good to me.
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvd
