supported drives

[gpayne]

I have bought 3 Plextor drives from MTU. I have not had problems with the drives until MTU changed the code and made Hoster check to see if the drive had hardware decoding. In previous versions you had the option to use hardware decoding or software decoding. The reason was that some disks would import and be snowy or have flakes etc. in the displayed lyrics. With my Plextor premium and my Plextor 716A there were times when I needed to select one or the other modes to get perfect imports. I wish they had never changed that but I believe a lot of people might have been getting confused on which mode to use or even how to select it. It is easier to let their sotware dectect hardware decoding if it is available on your particular drive. However, I am not sure that you would want to use hardware or software decoding under every circumstance. I would rather have the option to choose depending upon if I have a disk that imports with snow etc. Currently all of the drives that I bought from MTU are working. The Plextor 760A is the slowest of the bunch, but still does the import. It will not do great imports unless the import speed is set to 6x. While you can help make the import go well by selecting a slower speed, I would still like the option to hardware or software decode during import.

See ya

gpayne