What is a good brand of DVD-ROM?

[ILC]

Title says it all. Any help out there? Thanks.

ILC

[Dputiger]

I don't own a DVD personally, but every review I've read says that Creative makes an excellent DVD player. I know their hardware decoder card is also supposed to be excellent but I'm not sure how good the software capabilities are.

Creative makes really good stuff though--so I think you could feel pretty confident with one of there drives.

[Warthog]

I'm going to get the ultra cool, very nice, Hi-Val slot drive. I've seen it shown as a Pioneer drive also, with Hi-Val written elsewhere in the description. Anyone know why?? I'm confused.
Here is a link: http://www.thebigstore.com/dept/product.asp?pid=237255

I've also heard many good things about this drive and Creative Labs'.

Warthog

[CocoPops]

I have got a 10x Pioneer Drive that I have flashed with the region free bios. I have had less problems with it, than I had with my 40x CD-ROM, and so would recommend Pioneer with out any problems.

Lee.

[jl123]

I too have a Pioneer DVD-ROM. I've never had any trouble with it. I was always using it to play my regualar program cds since i only had a burner and dvd. But now i have a 52x cd-rom. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif I still use the dvd for a program that has a program cd and a clipart cd. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif HeHe

~Joel

[Donkey]

I have a Toshiba sdm1402 12X DVD drive, and have no problems with it. Only slight niggle is that you can not flash the bios region free but i'm sure some budding hacker will figure that one out soon as well (just checked and indeed it is now region free www.firmware.com.bi (http://www.firmware.com.bi) http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif ). Never comes out very well in reviews cos it doesn't have a headphone jack and volume on front but seeing as i never use that it doesn't bother me.

[This message has been edited by Donkey (edited 07-11-2000).]

[drn]

i have had the Pioneer 6x for more than a year now and have had no problam with it and as far as dvd hardware bont bother with it unless you already have a video card with it on it as long as you got 300 mhz or faster it will run them fine with software power dvd 2.55 is about the best out there now and i have used them all even ati's dvd player cant match the quality of power dvd hopr this helps i did have CL dvd sent it back as it did not find any cdrw at all and even some of the cdr so i don't think they have changed much i the last year

[Brian48]

I happen to really like my Memorex (Toshiba OEM M-6212). Good price, fairly fast (6x/32x), supports UDMA, and been able to read all my CDRW/CDR's so far. Very reliable.