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<blockquote data-quote="Lasherž" data-source="post: 8727166" data-attributes="member: 679555">Yeah Lite-on is good. They made a name for themselves with the etching laser on top for labeling CD&#039;s. They&#039;re about equivalent to Sony. With CD/DVD Drives I&#039;ve never actually had one go bad except for the opening mechanism. So long as that&#039;s still perky and it&#039;s not sluggish then there&#039;s almost no reason to go newer. As you can imagine the technology with DVD burning hasn&#039;t come very far since nobody expects it to be an instant process. The only thing they&#039;ve done in 8 years is introduce 4k blu ray readers and last I checked pioneer is the only one who did it (and released it only in Japan) because hollywood clamped down hard on encryption and seemed to really not like the idea of a computer playing their fancy high res films. It&#039;s limited to end to end encryption so you need a certain CPU/GPU/Monitor + special adapters if you use any to go from the GPU to the monitor.It looks like a lot of other brands have the speed to do 4k blu rays now but there seems to be a regulatory thing going on where the companies purposefully prevent their devices from doing it. Asus released a driver for one of theirs that disables its ability so you have to use an older firmware version.. so stupid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lasherž, post: 8727166, member: 679555"] Yeah Lite-on is good. They made a name for themselves with the etching laser on top for labeling CD's. They're about equivalent to Sony. With CD/DVD Drives I've never actually had one go bad except for the opening mechanism. So long as that's still perky and it's not sluggish then there's almost no reason to go newer. As you can imagine the technology with DVD burning hasn't come very far since nobody expects it to be an instant process. The only thing they've done in 8 years is introduce 4k blu ray readers and last I checked pioneer is the only one who did it (and released it only in Japan) because hollywood clamped down hard on encryption and seemed to really not like the idea of a computer playing their fancy high res films. It's limited to end to end encryption so you need a certain CPU/GPU/Monitor + special adapters if you use any to go from the GPU to the monitor. It looks like a lot of other brands have the speed to do 4k blu rays now but there seems to be a regulatory thing going on where the companies purposefully prevent their devices from doing it. Asus released a driver for one of theirs that disables its ability so you have to use an older firmware version.. so stupid. [/QUOTE]

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