🔥 IRiver Magic Format Double DVD±RW: Next-Level DVD Burning Quality and Speed" Review

First, let me point out that you can buy a branded DVD recorder (NEC, Toshiba, etc.) with DL built in/all formats for less than $80; try Revain and Newegg. I found and bought this I/O Magic at a local computer store. Big mistake. The drive reads the DVD slower than my 3 year old Iomega (irrelevant!), and the write speed (on DVD-R) is nowhere near as fast as advertised. Worse, about half the time it didn't recognize my DVD-Rs the first time I installed them. This is an awful product. Luckily I…

First off, let me say that I don't work for IO Magic and don't own any of their DVD drives, but I have one of their CD-R/RW drives that got me for 18 months. It was the best little machine I've hooked up to my computer. It's a 52x24x52 drive and I've had absolutely no problems with it. Actually I had more problems with my Iomega Zip drive. I bought it from Best Buy, it was actually a gift and I really loved it. I have never had to contact IO Magic about this drive and am considering purchasing…

I bought this DVD burner and installed it on my PC (HP xw4100 workstation, 2.0 GHz processor, 512 MB memory). Although I can use this DVD burner, I am disappointed for the following reasons: (1). Slow Write Speed: I can usually only get 0.4x to 0.8x speed for CD-R media, which is much slower than the advertised 16x(2). formatting issues. I have created some DVDs with Nero Express and found that some DVDs are unreadable, for example the NEC DV 5700A DVD/CD-ROM from my Dell Dimension 4100. While…