PHILIPS / BENQ DVD8900 DVD+/-R/RW/RAM Writer

[dontasciime]

Anyone know anything about these drives svp are selling, eg is it philips, benq, any firmware of note, price 17.70 gbp, cheers.

 

 

info i have so far seems to point its liteons new breed since taking over benq etc.

Edited January 3, 2007 by dontasciime

[Grain]

I know there is a 20X BenQ coming out quick, although word on the street for it is Liteon rebadged. This model you mention I haven't heard of. In the past, BenQ's that were RAM ready had a Panasonic chipset I believe, and weren't widely appreciated.

[polopony]

its getting ridiculous with the rebadging and the takeovers of companies ,we here kinda know about it but I've read more than a few posts extolling the virtues of Sony and how they make blah blah blah when they haven't made any drives for a good while ,then its Sony -Nec, Lite on Sony ,LiteOn -BenQ, Optirac . Hey the new 20x drives are out ,big deal , most of the public are really misinformed or just plain dont know

[lfcrule1972]

I only ever burn at 12x for discs I want to keep anyways.......

[dontasciime]

I ended up buying the drive for a laugh, just installed it into sumvision caddy, turns out to be a Benq DW1670

 

No solidburn,overspeed, or quality scans

 

auto booktype dvd-rom on dvd+ and Dl+

 

test write enable/disable

 

Can set +rw to dl+ dvd-r etc (lol)

 

just finished burning my first disc on it, A CMC AM3, (don,t laugh aint had one fail to playback) and no the data is still readable 1yr on from previous burns.

 

 

 

 

and then scanned on 1670 (not quite right) only choices were CAV so choose 8x CAV

 

 

 

 

 

same disc scanned on liteon 160P6S

 

Edited January 10, 2007 by dontasciime

[Rhythmeister]

Hey all, just stumbled across the forum whilst trying to get my drive to stop making coasters of my new Ritek dye DVD9s. It's the drive in this thread but I'm wondering if there's any firmware available to bring it up to date!

[mmalves]

How does it identify itself to the system? (e.g. the name shown in ImgBurn's Write mode)

[Rhythmeister]

ATAPI DVD DC 16X8X5 103 AFAIK which I believe to be one of these!