LG GSA-5163D DVD±RW Dual Layer Burner

Pros: Quality, Consistency, Speed, Supports every DVD & CD format in existence!
Cons: None.

This review will tell you how this LG External DVD-RW model has performed for me over the last couple of months as well as how well it works with different blank disk brands and speeds that I have tried thus far. I was in the market for an EXTERNAL ...

Pros: inexpensive, easy to use, good software included, nice profile
Cons: may be slow compared to upper-tier burners

When my company produced a promotional video, the company that put it together for us said that we could make all the copies that we wanted. One problem: we did not have the ability to copy a DVD. After checking the price to have copies made, I decided ...

Pros: Easy to use, very capable DVD-CD R/W drive.
Cons: None.

I admit up front that I am not an expert on this technology. However, I was forced to learn a bit when my HP Pavilion 350n's DVD writer/reader died the very first time I tried to use it. Of course, the HP PC was out of warranty and the Indian geek on the telephone confirmed that the problem was not, as I had hoped, a driver problem. So I learned that there about a hundred possible choices for an external DVD drive and on some websites you can compare the technical features of a number of models side by side. I prefer an external DVD drive because I can transport it, and if I get another PC I know I have a spare DVD unit! This particular model reads one particular configuration of DVD that most others do not, though from what I have heard that is not a particularly important issue. The drive will do virtually anything I can imagine, and it has already read DVDs, copied CDs and always with unusually explicit and easy to use procedures. Heck, for $90 including shipping it does what a DVD-CD R/W drive should do. I recommend it.