Date: 05/20/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

My DVD burner (an NEC 4x dual-layer DVD+/-RW) appears to have crapped out. It's more than two years old, and I tried burning several brand-new Fuji DVD-Rs with InfraBurner, Nero Ultra 7, and CDBurnerXP - every try failed.

I know that burners are pretty cheap these days - I saw a bunch on Newegg for under $40 shipped.

Soooo the question is, does anyone have any advice for what brand of burner I should get? I've used Lite-On drives before, and they're too loud to me (although that may be different now). Otherwise, I don't know what brand is better - Sony, Lite-On, NEC, Samsung, LG, etc. I don't need Blu-Ray or HD-DVD or DVD-RAM. I just need to burn the occasional backup DVD, DVD movies, and data and audio CDs.

Advice is appreciated.

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I tried burning in Ubuntu 7.xx (whatever the latest beta was a few months ago), and K3b told me that the disc was unformatted. I tried a generic DVD-R that I bought at Aldi, and so far it's working.

Does anyone know anything about Fuji DVD-Rs not working with NEC DL DVD+/-RW drives?
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