Burners Compatible with DVD-A

kdi001 wrote on 5/9/2006, 9:55 AM
What external dvd burners are compatible with DVD-Architect?
Can someone provide me with a link of acceptable burners or list what external burners you use successfully with quality blank dvds?
Perhaps it's a matter of listing which ones to avoid. My price range is <$200.00

--Dale, using XP Pro, Vegas 6, DVD-A 3.0

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bevross wrote on 5/9/2006, 12:27 PM

I got the Plextor PX-716UF --- has worked great so far (reading what had been problematic for my old drive, no coasters, etc.) plus, I got it half price through Plextor's official refurbished resellers. See

http://plextor.com/english/products/product_refurbished.html

Only complaint is that it is loud! Less of a problem than a loud fan ('cause I only use the drive as needed) but, I was surprised by the loudness of it. Maybe mine's defective & that's why it was sent back? Anyone else with a PX-716UF find it very noisy? This one is both firewire & USB.
kdi001 wrote on 5/12/2006, 8:54 AM
Thanks for the reply. I'd like to get more responses, if I can, before buying an external burner and then discovering DVD-Architect.doesn't like it.

Anyone else to point me in the right direction?
David Singer wrote on 5/13/2006, 7:51 AM
I'm having trouble with HP dvd640 USB. Apparently "ASPI" manager needs to be installed, but I'm having the dickens of a time trying to find out (a) who's, and (b) how. What happens to me is about every 6 minutes a whole bunch of seconds is burned as one frame, the DVD player seeking ahead to find something usable. From exactly the same file I can burn over and over, only to get different sections garbled. Moreover, the "Burn Another?" action dies when burning lead-in on the next platter. I have to shut everything down and restart the computer AND burner.

I'm not sure it's the HP burner (actually a LiteOn, same as Sony's source). I've gone through a wastepaper basket full of different brands of DVD platters - and burn as slow a 2x - all to no avail.

USB apparently needs ASPI *badly* for burning to work. I noticed that when I've got a headset plugged in, about every 6 minutes the connection is broken and re-made (asks if the "new device" is a mic or a headset). This clues me into the probability that the burning issue (no pun intended) is related to ASPI management (or lack thereof) and my inability to find ANY reference to that from DVD A3.

David