Rite ive been dwelling in the dvd writer realm the last 2 weeks and it has left a bit of bad taste . A local shop sold the liteon 411S for a more then reasonable price so i picked it up . Bought a 25 dvd spindle of dvd-r media to go with it . Came home tried it , wouldnt burn succesfull on them , it burned to +r’s great though . Then another shop started selling BTC’s and my m8 got one , his drive burned my -R’s and i was still in the ‘not happy get a refund’ period so i returned my 411S without really testing diff settings/media to get the best burn result . I installed the BTC and in my computer it didnt do much but burn coasters and even made my system very unstable . The unstability got fixed trying diff setups , software , firmware etc . But still the drive in my computer produced disks of very poor quality IF they did work at all (5-10% successfull , semi working disks , always some dvd-rom or standalone in my house they didnt work on + very poor Kprobe scanresults). So today i returned the BTC and going against my instinct i might try another drive , but this time i’m gonna do some proper research on em . These are a few questions i got about dvdwriters .
-DVD-r : supposedly the most compatible media when you plan on copying dvdmovies and using them in standalones . But here’s my situation . I got a philips dvd633 standalone and it plays +R disks without a glicth (well the 1 i burned using the liteon) . Ive heard this is the media type of the future so when you got a standalone which plays em and any future dvd player purchase will also play em (if what i heard is correct) why should i still want a drive that has good -r support ? Do i still need a dual format burner ?
-When looking for the most stable drive what brand is usually named , i think ive seen pioneer mentioned . I’m looking for a drive that works without having to much to worry about firmware or cheap media support and one that isnt labeled ‘works for some , doesnt for others’ like the 411s or by own experience the BTC
-Copyprotection : I use writers for either databackup or movie/series backups . Do movies have copy protection and if so does a writer need to have certain features to be able to bypass em . If so which brands/type should i concider keeping in mind the above .