Sony 16x DL DVD Rewriter (black) - £24.98 inc delivery

bingsy · 12 February 2006 at 4:25PM

http://www.lowestonweb.com/products/displayinfomain.asp?e=1641CADA-7B46-4408-8647-329E97B2DBDB

Hi everyone, I'm looking to buy my first DVD-Writer and wondered if this is a good deal.

I would have put this in the "I wanna buy it/do it" forum but it looks like a good deal so it's here. It's only £24.98 including delivery which seems good value. As they don't specifically mention "Retail" I guess it's a bare drive only though.

Question 1: In the specs below it mentions "5x DVD-RAM". I can't figure out wether it writes to DVD-RAM or just reads them. Anyone know?

Question 2: Is it a uk compatible model (region) or not. I've tried Googling it for features/specs & most websites seem to be Australian. I know it will physically work in my pc but if it's an Australian model will I lose anything.

Sony BLACK DWG120AB2 Internal Dual Layer Multiformat DVD-RW Drive

8x DVD+R DL
4x DVD-R DL
16x DVD+/-R
8x DVD+RW
6x DVD-RW
5x DVD-RAM
16x DVD-ROM
48x CD-R
24x CD-RW
48x CD-ROM

bigbadgoggs · 12 February 2006 at 4:32PM

If it writes to RAM disks, it's a steal!

Sony UK website doesn't recognise the model number which is strange -

Spec for the ubiqutous Pioneer 110 quotes x5 for RAM write speed so it could be worth a punt....

BBG

irsys · 12 February 2006 at 4:50PM

Spec looks fine, price is good too... I'm presuming that at this sort of price it's an OEM (no software or cables) but that shouldn't be a problem if i't repalcing some form of cd'combo drive already...

nickydoc · 12 February 2006 at 5:54PM

bigbadgoggs wrote:

If it writes to RAM disks, it's a steal!

Sony UK website doesn't recognise the model number which is strange -

Spec for the ubiqutous Pioneer 110 quotes x5 for RAM write speed so it could be worth a punt....

BBG

i am pretty sure this is 5x ram, did a quick google and they seem popular in australia.
just ordered one,
thanks bingsy.

bingsy · 12 February 2006 at 6:12PM

nickydoc wrote:

i am pretty sure this is 5x ram, did a quick google and they seem popular in australia.

Does it write to DVD-RAM though, or just read RAM, that's what I was wondering. I'm still not having much luck confirming this. I'd rather have one that's writes to all media.

Stephen_Webber · 12 February 2006 at 6:22PM

If it quotes 5x RAM, it will write to them. Good luck finding any discs though, as most people use either DVD+R or DVD-R now. The region is set by the user and can be changed up to 5 times until it remains permanent. You can get "dodgy" hacked versions of the firmware (think of it as the drives operating software) which remove the region locking altogether.

Regards,
Stephen

bingsy · 12 February 2006 at 6:41PM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00074ERTY/qid%3D1137341652/sr%3D8-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fka%5F1/202-3085417-2415058

£11.99 for a pack of 10 (3x speed). Beauty of DVD-RAM is that you can use them like a floppy disc, drag&drop. Makes for easy PC-Backups, that's why I want RAM-writability

bingsy · 12 February 2006 at 6:45PM

Stephen_Webber wrote:

If it quotes 5x RAM, it will write to them.

Not saying that you're wrong but I read that the latest Pioneer 110 writes to DVD-RAM whereas the previous verion of the 110 only read DVD-RAM.

I just want to make absolutely sure that this Sony one will write DVD-RAM. Otherwise I'll just pay a little more & buy an NEC/Samsung/LG

nickydoc · 13 February 2006 at 5:55PM

another thread on this drive
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=150872

Sony 16x DL DVD Rewriter (black) - £24.98 inc delivery

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