Besides Plextor?

[Azkaraoke4]

Ok I need help if anyone can. All my local stores are out of plextor burners. Does anyone here use or have another brand that seems to work fine. I need it for a show tonight. It's saturday the 13th.
Thanks in advance.

[CochrellGary]

Do a Google for CD+G burners on the internet You will find some sites that list what they think are valid CD+G burners, buyer beware . When you have more time buy one from MTU, their burners are certified.

Gary

[DJYale]

Most any burner which supports RAW 96 DAO will work ...

I have an HP desktop that came with an ASUS burner, plus I installed a second LG burner and both work fine...


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[Azkaraoke4]

Thanks for the info.

[DJYale]

I did a little research and came up with a competitive site that lists a range of drives and also lists if they are CD+G compatible.

It leaves some out, but it's a good starting refference.

[MTUSUPPORT]

This list doesn't seem correct to me, as it lists the Plextor PX-504A model, which on Plextor's site, this drive doesn't support CD+G in there specs. I know for a fact that this drive will not work also, as we tried it.

The Only brand that will work correctly with any of our software for CD+G are the Plextor drives, other than the 504 model listed above, most other drives will NOT work.

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hello All,
Don't mess about with anything but Plextor.
I've never bought a drive independantly certified by MTU, but as I've stated many times before, every single Plextor drive (6) I've bought has worked perfectly first time, and has always been recognized by all the MTU programmes.
You can always get some money back for other drives if you sell them on Ebay, but stick to Plextor for use with MTU.
Regards from across the pond.
Garry

[George]

Anybody wanting to go by that list better clean their glasses because very few other that Plextor actual say their burner SUPPORTS CDG. Most only say POSSIBLE.

George

[Azkaraoke4]

Ok Ok everyone, I didn't mean to start a mess hehe but the town was out of plextor at the time. Actually I was just wondering if anyone already had something in use with hoster that I could run down and get real quick. I will add this so that it may help some of you with the confusion. There is no doubt that plextor is the best and cleanest karaoke burner I have found. And it is true that mtu does recommend them.

However there are absolutley many burners that do burn karaoke, however the problem is that hoster just does not support them. If anyone recalls though that hoster said after release 2.213 that they did add support back in for some of the others, I just couldn't remember which ones they said. Model numbers are also ver important when you are buying though. Anyway thanks for all the great feedback. Forums are a great thing!

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hello,
Just a footnote.
Beware of firms that say their burners support CDG.
I bought a Toshiba (Long before I bought Plextor).
Its documentation said it supported CDG, it didn't!!!!
Goldenhawk is only telling you the burners that it's software recognizes.
I'm sure they would unequivocally deny they are saying the same burners would recognize other software such as MTU.
I don't know if even Plextor would admit their burners are TESTED to read CDG's, sorry to pontificate, but they are undoubtedly the star performer's in this arena.
One of my local opposition has a cheap DVD player from ASDA (Part of the Wal-Mart chain over here) that plays CDG's brilliantly but doesn't even mention this in it's documentation.
Regards from across the pond.
Garry.

[quaizywabbit]

my AMD Athlon homebuilt has a dvd-rom drive that will READ(and rip) CDG disks, (using a beta (but Free) cdg conversion utility)

It isn't so much the Hardware that presents the problem....its the FIRMWARE and ASPI layer.

Plextor drives simply are the most CDG friendly

[admin]

Originally Posted by Azkaraoke4

However there are absolutley many burners that do burn karaoke, however the problem is that hoster just does not support them.

Hoster 3.2 will allow importing with any CDROM, CDR, DVDR drives that supports RAW DAO96 format. We have totally rewritten our CD reading code. We hope to start beta testing this section of code next week. It will take a LONG TIME to test this before we feel comfortable to releas it.

Even after that, we expect to hear LOTS of complaints from folks who think ANY CDROM/CDR/DVDR is JUST AS GOOD AS PLEXTOR!!!! Not so. Plex is the ultimate drive. PERIOD!!

I KNOW.... folks will go buy the cheapest darn junk drive they can find, then blame the poor results on MTU's Hoster, when reality is their drive is reading in garbage data and telling our software it is "good data".

If I'm wrong, I'll be a VERY happy camper....

I know... don't get my hopes up too much.

[George]

Originally Posted by Azkaraoke4

However there are absolutley many burners that do burn karaoke....

That hit my pet peeve right on the button. The use of the word Karaoke automatically signals CDG to most of us in the Karaoke world, but not necessarily so with the burner manufacturers.

I first bought an Acer drive that was advertised to handle KARAOKE . I guess there was an angel on my shoulder, because I didn't buy direct, but went to my pc guru and specified I was looking for a burner that was CDG compatable. He came up with Acer, and ordered it.

After a month of not being able to get it to work, with the Acer support team scratching their heads( really up a tree and trying to help me) I got to talk to an engineer who informed me that they never supported CDG, and never would. They supported VCD.When I suggested to him that they were using false advertising by not being specific in their claims, he said they were technically correct and would do nothing.

Here's where that angel came in. In the meantime I found MTU and ordered a Plextor and Microstudio. MTU lucked out there, as had I bought Microstufdio initially, like any normal customer I would have been blaming the software

I was also able to give the Acer back to the shop, as they admitted I'd specified CDG, not just Karaoke.

Moral of the story...make sure it will support CDG, not just Karaoke.

George