decent dvd drive

[tahirti3]

can someone suggest a drive that plays everything that you throw at it,like some dvd players are better than others at reading discs.
my pc dvd drive seems to struggle with many discs.
thanks

[EndlessWaves]

I've always had good experiences with the pioneer slot-loading DVD drives but they don't seem to be doing one at the moment, perhaps their tray loading ones will be equally good?

[Jamestuk]

I would have thought any modern SATA drive would be fine...

I think mine is LG.

[mjcairney]

Originally Posted by EndlessWaves

I've always had good experiences with the pioneer slot-loading DVD drives but they don't seem to be doing one at the moment, perhaps their tray loading ones will be equally good?

My 3 year old PC has a Pioneer DVD Drive which has never failed to read any disk that I have put in it - it is a tray loading one by the way.

Cheers,

Martin.

[Naqv]

I have had a couple of Lite-on drives, and they have never failed me and seem to be able to read pretty much anything I throw at it.

I did change over to LG once and had problems with it. It wouldn't read the disks that I burnt with the Lite-on sometimes and produced much higher errors.

So Lite-on +1
LG -1

btw with Lite-on drives, you can check errors using Nero DVD-Speed. With others you can't.

[DVD-Man]

If the OP is referring to PC DVD drives being picky about some discs then the way a computer drive works is different to a DVD player in the fact that the scratched movies that play in the DVD player won't play in the PC due to the way the data is read and handled.

Liam

[awiseguy]

I have just fitted a Samsung SH S203 SATA drive to my system and got this drive locally for £26 and its amazing. Have a look what these guys say about it.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/i...?reviewid=1242