I have an internal predecessor of the DRX-710UL and have yet to burn a coaster.

There are other good drives out there but I’ve always had good luck with Sony and Plexstor.

I bought a TDK dvd internal for my desktop at home….That was back on June.  Still haven’t got around to burning anything….

I guess you can call me lazy. :ph34r:

Hmmmm!!!!!!  :cry:  :cry: 

Burnede my first DVD tonight.

I ended up trying with DVDShrink as the interface is kinda simple and I like that.

DIDN’T WORK !!!!  :cry:    :evil:  :cry:

1) I have the original DVD in the TR. It reads it into DVDShrink ok

2) I de-selected a french director’s comment to save some space.
Compression is at about 67% or so.

3) I have the blank DVD in the Sony burner (it’s a Memorex DVD +RW, 4x).

4) I chose ‘Backup’ and for about 45 minutes or so it reads and reads and reads and I am assuming that it now reads from the original DVD down to the laptop and saves the folder there.

5) Everything now happens without me doing anything - as soon as it’s read the DVD content to the laptop it starts writing to the burner for about 25 minutes.

6) Says it successfully finished writing.

But here is the problem - I CANT READ THE NEW DVD…..

I have tried in my TR and in my roomie’s Toshiba laptop - but neither laptop recognizes the DVD. I tried loading it but nothing.

When browing to the DVD with Windows Explorer it doesn’t display any files on it.

What’s wrong? Am I doomed to have spent 200 dollars on a burner that I cant read the output from? And it’s a SONY!  :-(

I’m soo sad it’s not even funny. I had planned to burn 10- DVDs tonight (yeah, pathetic way to spend a Saturday I know).

If anyone out there can help me…..please….....

Weird.

If you’re not in a hurry…I’ll write a little step by step tutorial in the next day or so and post it for you. Hopefully, you’re not in too much of a rush.

:D

[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]Weird.

If you’re not in a hurry…I’ll write a little step by step tutorial in the next day or so and post it for you. Hopefully, you’re not in too much of a rush.

:D

That would be great….

That would be super!!

:D

Dang…those two last ones were from moi

I decided to go with this ... I am slowly building desk top (rack) and instead of buying a bunch of external stuff i got one of these ... saves me like $120 off the dvd burner and also works for hds

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5129646672&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT

u had mentioned dvd+rw’s…may be those drives in the laptop’s have problems with +rw’s

Rahul, maybe…

I just tried burning the SAME DVD but this time using DVDXCOPY…and now I can play the DVD copy in my Sony TR!!

Now..the odd thing NOW is that…the subtitles are messed up…in every new chapter it only shows the FIRST subtitle sentence..then nothing as the movie plays on..until the NEXT chapter when ONE sentence is displayed again in the subtitle.

Aaaarrgggghhhhhh!!!

Re-burning AGAIN with the same DVD and the same DVD R+ disk but this time selecting ‘simple’ option is DVDXCOPY….

Will also see if I can get some R- disks this afternoon…..

SIGH…...

Wonder why the DVDshrink copy refuses to play in any drive but the burner…and why my DVDXCOPY copy only displays one subtitle-sentence per chapter…

If anyone knows…please…let me know…

the copy that you burnt using dvdxcopy was that on a +rw or a +r?

It was a +RW (Memorex brand).

Now I’m burning on a Sony -RW DVD.

And swear I’m jinxed…the damn Sony DVD disc I got was a 1x speed DVD. Aaarrghhh!!! That explains why there were NO xX on the cover.

Damn Sony! 

We’ll see in ughh…1.5 hours…

Ok…it took a long time to chug through it..BUT…in the end I got a FULLY working COPY!!!

Next I’ll try with a 4x -RW DVD to see if that works (I hope I am not doomed to only being able to work with 1x DVDs…).

So what IS the difference between + and -

It now appears that - doesn’t work for me at all through DVDshrink - and DVDXCOPY skimped on the subtitles.

It appears that + gives me everying - and that even DVDShrink and DVDXCOPY works with +

Granted I’m basing this on 3-4 failed attempts with Memorex’s - DVDs and 1 successful attempt with a SONY + RW so not quite a statistically significant test population.

That’s odd. DVD-Rs are supposed to be more compatable with set-top DVD players than DVD+Rs. Memorex is usually a decent brand. I guess just go for what works for you…  :?

As far as dvdxcopy skimping on the subtitles is concerned, did u use advanced mode or simple mode?...I’m sure simple mode with “copy entire disc” selected would make an exact replica of the original with an annoying warning screen added at the beginning.