SONY or PHILIPS....??

kaan_is

Need urgent help please...want to buy a rewriter for my nephew.
Have a choice between the philips..and sony..(DWG120AB2)
both are 16 speed dual layer..both cost around £25 inc del.
Philips sold by SVP & sony by Lowestonweb.com.Any help would be welcome..

wonderfullife_2

Hi
I personally would go for a NEC, never any problems with them and no coasters, really excellent drives, but possibly a bit dearer than you want to pay.
If I had to choose between the 2, then I would go for Sony only because I've had 1 Phillips and I sent it back, coasters all the time, I just didn't know if it was going to work or not.
But that's just my opinion.

Hope this helps

PS Been to the site found the Sony, but not the Phillips.

wolfman

NEC are very good, currently have one myself. I've always been impressed with LG's though and they score very well in any tests.

Sony have been a bit hit and miss with their recent writers, and I've not used a Philips since my cd-writer of about 5 years ago. Personally, I'd go for either an LG 4167, the NEC 4570 or the Pioneer 110. Each should cost you no more than £30 (or maybe just a pound or two over).

Bob63

I had an early Sony CD DVD writer and it was awful. I've never made so many coasters as I did with that drive. I took it back after two weeks and got my money back. So just on that one experience I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole now.

Mike

VincentVega

Purely on the basis that SVP are one of the best outfits out there and Lowestonweb are awful, I'd plump for the Philips one.

Little_John

I would go for a pioneer myself

titewad_2

VincentVega wrote:

Purely on the basis that SVP are one of the best outfits out there and Lowestonweb are awful, I'd plump for the Philips one.

In what respect are they awful?
I ordered one of the sony drives from them two weeks ago.Ordered late afternoon one day,was delivered by dinner the following day.

kaan_is

ok thankyou everyone it seems neither of these are preferred..i am left with only one question...if not these then which one? I can pay up to £35.

titewad_2

kaan_is wrote:

ok thankyou everyone it seems neither of these are preferred..i am left with only one question...if not these then which one? I can pay up to £35.

I am perfectly happy with my sony drive

intel

Youll always get a Phillips laser eye no matter what you get, but NEC are V.Good.

wolfman

Any of these are great:

- LG GSA-4167
- NEC 4570
- Pioneer DVR-110