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Well said travis, unfortunately, you couldnt be more right..



"Travis Howerton" <traveyes@hot--mail.com> wrote in message
news:9g8ocg$n2f$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> Try writing to the "Image Recorder" in Nero, then write that image to your
> CDRW.
>
> I wanna comment on one thing you said:
>
> "...because Nero doesn't detect his DVD at all! I find it hard to believe
> since it's also from Creative."
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>
> I would have agreed with you 1 year ago. After all Creative makes good
> stuff, right?  Wrong. They USED TO make good stuff, namely, soundcards. I
> have an SBLive!, and I'm fairly happy with it, but try lurking on the
> soundblaster.live Newsgroup and you'll see that Creative treats its
> customers there, like they treat those of us stupid enough to be suckered
> into their product name with non sound devices. Get this straight:
Creative
> DOESN'T make CDROM's or CDRW's, or Modems or DVD players (afaik). They
send
> a group of suits (read: lawyers) out to cut deals with _real_ hardware
> manufacturers - the good ones: Plextor, etc. They buy  X quantity of
CDRW's
> from them, slap their name on the front, and into the BIOS, and give 'em
to
> all the reviewers and pundits... like ZDNet, etc. Then, when the reviews
are
> great (as they _will_ be) and the X quantity of good drives runs out, they
> pull a switcher-a-roo. They switch to 2nd rate manufacturers (I shouldn't
> say 2nd rate... but lesser quality anyway) - and slap the SAME NAME on
this
> totally different drive. Then the masses (read:us suckers) buy up the 2nd
> rate product, thinking we're getting "good creative stuff".
>
> So, don't find it "hard to believe". Creative cares only about the dollar.
> They could care less if their DVD's and CDRW's play together nicely -
> because they aren't really theirs. They're sad now cuz they've lost the
edge
> they had 8 or so years ago... when they used to innovate. Now they're just
a
> reseller with a good name.... SO FAR.... That will, and should change.
>
> anyway.. that's my $.02
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> "Gustafson Negronig" <guimo_x@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:9g797e$rfm$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> > Ok, here's something funny, but very disturbing, that happened while at
a
> > friend's house. His system works fine and his 8432 drive works well for
> > using re-writable cd's... but when it comes to actually copying a cd, he
> > can't.. why? because Nero doesn't detect his DVD at all! I find it hard
to
> > believe since it's also from Creative, but the darn thing isn't
> > "autodetected" and so my friend can do nothing more than burn stuff
that's
> > already in his drive, but cannot make any cd copies. Now my question is,
> is
> > there anyway to fix this? (something that'll make Nero read from the DVD
> > drive, maybe just skip the autodetect function that doesn't work.) Is
> there
> > some file, site or something I need to know about this? Any help with
this
> > problem will be greatly appreciate it. If you've had a similar problem,
> > please let me know about it and how you managed to solve it.. Thanks in
> > advance... <:o
> >
> >
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