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 | Title : QPS External DVD-R/DVD-RW/CD-RW Firewire Drive
Author : QPS
Release Date : 20011002
Binding : Electronics
Regular Price : $499.99
Amazon.com Price : $469.99
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Editorial Reviews :
The Que! external FireWire SuperDrive allows you to write DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW discs all from a single drive. Write DVD-R General discs at 2x speed and cut your wait time in half. With the ability to write 4.7 GB of data in 30 minutes, DVD-R General discs are an affordable way to create the versatile storage you need. Write DVD-RW and use the same disc up to 1,000 times for heavy-duty backup, data storage and exchange, video authoring, image archiving, and more. DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) opens the door to the large storage capacities required for video authoring, image and data archiving, etc., and it works in any of today's computer or set-top players that are DVD-R and/or DVD-RW compliant. And the Que! SuperDrive features two FireWire ports, so you can easily daisy-chain other FireWire devices like digital cameras, hard drives, and more.
The Que! DVD SuperDrive can also read and write to industry standard CD-R media at 8x and CD-RW media at 4x. Write your smaller data jobs and audio discs using this function and access or play them back in any CD-ROM or DVD-ROM with CD-R or CD-RW compatibility, including many car and home players.
The Que! SuperDrive is shipped with the MedioStream neoDVD Standard encoding/decoding and additional authoring software for PC. The complete software suite allows the capture, transcoding, pre-authoring, authoring, pre-mastering, and mastering capabilities you need to produce top-quality data and video DVDs*. Also includes Roxio Toast software for Macintosh for data authoring.
*DVD movie authoring on Macintosh requires third-party software (not included).
Buyer Reviews :
QPS-DVD Burner: Does the Job
I found this product especially difficult to buy. That is, I had to read through a lot of material both before and after my purchase to fully understand what it was I needed, who made it, and where to find it. The easiest part was finding the lowest price.
The difficulty lay in the fact that DVD standards have not yet settled down, and there are several to choose from. These include DVD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RAM, and possibly others. There are also single layer and double layer media as well as single sided and double sided media.
Here's what I needed:
· a low cost machine
· that can backup computer files
· and burn DVD's playable on home players
· with appropriate software
What I found was that QPS basically puts a plastic shell around a Pioneer burner thereby making it 'external.' They bundle it with software and sell it under their own label.
What I got was a machine that can store 4.7 Gb of data or video on a single sided, single layered media using the DVD-RW or DVD-R standard. QPS' bundled software, InCD, conflicts with DirectCD, so you must uninstall DirectCD first. However, I can read my DVD-RW disks in my other DVD-R/CD-RW drive as well as in my DVD drive on a different machine that still uses DirectCD. So I'm quite satisfied.
Software:
InCD works well enough, though you can only eject the media through the software and not through the drive's eject button. I can also create DVD-R disks playable on any of the DVD players I've tried.
On the other hand, I found the software which creates movie DVD's wholly inadequate. When one creates a movie DVD, one wants an application which helps create box covers, disk labels, navigation screens, movie chapters, etc. For an additional hundred bucks, I purchased DVD Complete Deluxe which does all that through a very easy to use interface. If you dream of making your own movie DVDs, you'll want to spend the extra hundred bucks.
Performance:
In addition, QPS' DVD-RW formatting and data copying processes are 'slow' (slow being relative). It take about an hour to format a DVD-RW disk, and longer to convert and burn a DVD movie. If you don't need speed, and you're prepared to buy your own DVD burning software (or are willing to settle for less), then this machine does a great job!
Other:
I was happily surprised to find that one can chain multiple firewire devices through this machine. However, I was disappointed that the included six pin to six pin firewire cable was not compatible with my four pin Sony VAIO port. I had to buy a four pin/six pin cable for another twenty or thirty bucks. The additional two pins simply provide power to devices that don't have their own power source. This drive, as one might expect, requires its own power source. No big deal, though. The product documentation 'prepared' me for this, and I had the appropriate cable in hand by the time UPS delivered my machine.
Now I just have to hope I bet on the right side of the 'standards' battle.
(by Robert Lawton )
Features/Technical Specs :
* Write DVD-R/DVD-RW and CD-R/CD-RW discs with the same drive
* Huge 4.7 GB capacity per DVD-R disc
* Create and edit your own DVD movies with the included MedioStream neoDVD Standard software (PC only)
* Backup your CD collection or create your own mixes with 8x CD-Recording
* Compatible with Macs and PCs
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