any one bought dv 1000 at costco?

hey i bought a dv 1000 at costco and was wondering if the dvd writer works fine with people who have bought it.. i have not burned any dvds as .. for some reason or the other .. i rented one from some mom and pop vedio store but did not allow me to burn and mentioned me that it was locked or something so.. does your guys dvd writer work as well as the laptop work well or?... and what am i doing wrong.. in the sence of burning dvd's.. i am using the program that came with it which is RECORD NOW... please help..

 

What are the specs and the cost for the one costco sold?

 

If you are trying to 'pirate' I mean 'back up' a DVD, the current software no longer does that. It is called copy protection to protect multimillion dollar actors and producers to ensure that they have Blue Label Scoth versus MD 20/20. Xcopy was available many months ago that allowed you to copy stuff but was taken off of the market very quickly.

DVD burners are used to back up gigabytes of information and home movies, in general.

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There's an excellent site for this with all kinds of info on what software to use.

http://www.dvdrhelp.com

 

Unless you have two DVD drives (one to read and one to write ),I don't understand how you can copy a DVD ?? [ ][ ]




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lapboy, you can just rip the DVD to your hard drive, provided you have enough space, and then burn it to a blank DVD. Why doesn't the DV1000 have a dual layer DVD burner!? [ !]

 

you don't need one, just get dvdshrink and a few other programs to do it, or dvd xcopy will just rip the movie and put it on a dvd with no menus or extras.

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<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by lapboy

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Quikster

 

no it doesn't install any spyware

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I bought a DV1000 from Costco and no problem at all in backing up DVDs. Also, rahulnirmal. The DVD inside DV1000 is actually a dual layer DVD burner but you need to flash the firmware to NE6500 ver 2.3. I did that and it is dual layer DVD writer now. [8D]

 

Check their website....www.costco.com


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What are the specs from the one from costco? Sorry it's just that the nearest one takes me 40 minutes to drive and I only go once every 3 weeks.

 

Oh yes, and what if I want a custom built one with a DVD burner from HPshopping.com? Will that have the same burner as the one in Costco?

 

HighTechFan, are you absolutly sure that it has a dual layer dvd burner? Because I heard someone on www.dv1000forums.com say that it doesn't. If it does, then I'll be getting the DV1000.

I was thinking of getting the 700m because I know for sure it can have a dual layer dvd burner. But I didn't like its small keyboard and smaller screen size. I know right now dual layer blank discs are expensive, but when they are cheap, I'd like to take advantage of the 8 gigs the dual layer discs have. Plus, I'd like to copy dvd's without DVD Shrink which reduces their quality a bit.

How do you flash the firmware?

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by titaniummd

 

rahulnirmal,

I cannot say that I definitely sure it will work with DL as I don't want to spend money on the media and try out yet. Nero tool reports it is DL write compatible.

I was reading the DV1000forum also and I don't recall anyone say that it is not a DL burner. People were talking about how to flash the DVD burner with the following link. And, no one complain yet.

http://www.cdrinfo.com/forum/tm.asp?m=84345