Yep. It's definetely going to be a while before I make the leap. F**kin prices are outrageous.
17.3.2007 18:27 #1
Originally posted by pstamer:Yep. It's definetely going to be a while before I make the leap. F**kin prices are outrageous.Give it TIME! They just came out with this...a couple of years and they will be as common as DVD's are now.
17.3.2007 20:03 #2
Good for them I just found out my SHW-160P6S is has hardware DRM even AnyDVD cant work on it >>
18.3.2007 00:57 #3
Only 1200$? It cost nothing.I want 2 pay 12.000$
18.3.2007 03:02 #4
I wouldnt buy this just yet because its still new technology...you guys might as well save your money until the technology gets better or the drive gets cheaper
18.3.2007 03:51 #5
you think that we here in south africa are paying about 9000 zar for the brw i am immigrating
18.3.2007 03:56 #6
Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:Good for them I just found out my SHW-160P6S is has hardware DRM even AnyDVD cant work on it >>
Seems that there are serious issue's with this drive. Some say updateing the firmware ( from liteon ) made the problem worse. And some say reverting back to the original FW done the trick. There was some talk of modded firmware on CD freaks that works a charm but I cant find a link. Also it looks like the change from the SHM to the SHW was a ploy to integrate some kind of protection, although liteon are saying its more media friendly, Not.
Maybe these new format players/recorders will work the same way, Mod the firmware and release the real potential of the drive!!
18.3.2007 09:22 #7
Originally posted by ZIppyDSM:Good for them I just found out my SHW-160P6S is has hardware DRM even AnyDVD cant work on it >>
Funny thing you should happen to bring that up in this thread, you would be referring to riplock would you not? My Laptop that I got a few months ago has a 8x DVD drive, that wit riplock cripples it down to 1.8x ever try ripping 7gb at that speed? its not fun. But the funny thing is its an LG drive, I will never be buying anything LG ever just because of this. I will also never buy anything Acer because of all the problems Ive had, Laptop kept getting stuck in hibernation(even when not set to) and freezing I lost alot of data ever few days. Eventually the whole computer crapped out with stuff like internet not working, programs ending unexpectedly etc. The geniuses at Acer completely reinstalled everything claimed they couldnt find any problem and sent it back to me still broken. Somehow the freezing problem solved itself and just when I was getting over all the problems and starting to like (?) my purchase, the backlights now stuffing up randomly. And just to make it worse it was advertised incorrectly where I bought it, so I was paying for a POS computer for way more than it was worth because of missing features.
Now back on topic, I see a big market for these combo drives if the price was right. But that will be the key thing, with a pricetag of $1200 (USD?) I dont see many selling. And the fact that they dont fully support HD-DVD kinda makes them a waste of money.
18.3.2007 19:11 #8
Andrew691
this was a 80$ drive to boot...
its like reading a DVD at full speed is teh evils or soemthing....oy... I got a sony dru-820 a its amazeign and runs great 0-o
I have notieced the LG drive is fcked random coasters,cant burn at all speeds and other sht that makes me wonder why? 0_o
19.3.2007 00:04 #9
