I Love My CD "Burner"!
Written: Jan 09 '00 (Updated Jan 16 '00)
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Pros: Look and feel quality, quality of copies
Cons: Can't copy music over 74 minutes
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| perturber's Full Review: Philips PC Internal CDRW 400 Series |
We purchased the Philips Recordable/ReWritable CD-ROM "burner" with our Gateway computer. I just love having the ability to burn photographs, .wav sound files and music onto CDs for mailing to friends and family. The best part, however, is copying music CDs for people.
First of all, the Philips' hardware is installed in one of the tower's bays. It gives a great feel of quality finish. The drawer slides out quietly and smoothly, then just a mere touch sends it back into the mechanism. Quality look and feel are important to me and the Philips has 'em both.
The Adaptec DirectCD 2.5 software that came installed works just fine. When you insert a blank CD into the unit, the software pops up giving me 4 options:
1) Format a CD for use in a regular CD drive
2) Create a CD for use on different types of computers
3) Create an audio CD for use any CD player
4) Copy an existing data (650 Mb) or audio CD (74 minutes)
I have used all 4 options and they work as advertised. Copied music CDs, for example, sound beautiful -- exactly like the originals -- isn't that the point behind digital technology?
I have one qualification to the above praise for option 4 of the software: if your source CD is over 74 minutes, the software won't copy at all. I am forced to go to option 3 and indicate which tracks I want to copy. In other words, I must omit one track from the copy. I would rather the software just go ahead and copy, losing the final seconds as necessary. Better to lose a little material than an entire track.
In any case, I love this hardware option. If you are thinking about getting a CD "burner" you can't go wrong with Philips.
Recommended:
Yes
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