johnsykes wrote: I lined up at our local Superstore and bought a DVD player for $9.95.....now I can watch JAG - the first season. Geez, I think I done good, eh!!!
Second best price I've heard of. Visions was selling DVD players for $1 at noon today, but only 150 nation-wide, spread across all stores, so you can bet on what little chance you'd have had to pick one up.
Nice to see that Superstore actually had them in stock. I hate shopping at Superstore, but I have to admit that they are fairly reasonable about sales (actually having decent amounts of stock) and returns. A couple of weeks ago, I returned an item that had been on special, a week after the 14 day limit and got my money back, no questions asked. Guess it helped that I glued the box back closed to make it look like I never opened it.
My BenQ DQ60 DVD-RW drive died, so I bought two Mad Dog brand NEC-rebadges for $29.02 each at Office Depot. Really nice drives, but waiting for a response from Mad Dog on the latest firmware as the program you download from their site asks for a BIN file, but the site doesn't supply one. The software is pretty crippled, too. You can get Nero or Roxio, depending on the Mad Dog model number. The Nero software seems to have Dolby disabled on the player, which makes it practically useless. Dunno for sure as I haven't tried it. But I do know that the Roxio only creates VCDs, not DVDs. I don't care that much as it works fine with the BenQ DQ60's uncrippled, same version of Nero.
On the upside, these drives are the fastest for CD I've ever seen. And scored a perfect 10 on Nero's test for accuracy of Digital Audio Extraction.
Finally, I was very disappointed with BenQ telephone support. Although you get to a real technical person immediately when you call, both calls have said -- try DVD+R before we'll listen to your complaint about DVD-R. When you add up the cost of media I'd have to buy (DL and regular DVD+R), and the shipping to return the drive, it would come pretty close to the $36 I paid for the BenQ in the first place. So, it is off to the eco Station.