Pioneer DVR-106D Review

The User Reviews

Average User Rating: 7.3

1. Good Hardware - SW Bundle STINKS

   

   By: David
   November 23, 2005 @ 10:43 AM

   I bought this external unit in early 2004 primarily for computer backup purposes – as I do a lot of client work and often need to unload Gyg’s of data when a project is over.

   My unit came with a convulted ULEAD DVD bundle that Installs every video recording product they make – no option to choose what component I wanted. I had to manually remove all the video products once installed. It did come with Nero Express – which is gawd-awful after using the Roxio products for so long. And speaking of long – it would never support super-long filename/folders. Finally found a shareware program that supported burning files on DVD media

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2. Baca

   

   By: Bren
   August 9, 2005 @ 10:44 AM

   The pre-packaged software reset my computer as well. Not just Roxio, but the drivers as well. The DVD burner is slow…has never quite gotten up to speed, and burns DVD’s that will not play in anything else. By the time I finally got the whole contraption to play DVD’s, I noticed that sound would not play on any DVD. The DVD tray also has a bad (REALLY BAD) habit of falling out, when you eject a disk. Pioneer has made another inferior DVD reading device.

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3. Good piece of kit

   

   By: Johnny
   April 25, 2005 @ 1:56 AM

   I got Pinnacle bundled with mine and it’s a nice bit of software. If Roxio is crashing your system, then it’s a system prob. Roxio is the industry standard pre-installed software for most machines.

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4. No sale

   

   By: Mike
   March 7, 2005 @ 11:42 PM

   The Roxio software supplied with it bluescreens my system – took half a day to recover. Run the other way.

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5. Support 8X DVD-R

   

   By: AKS
   February 22, 2005 @ 12:58 PM

   I never had any truble using 8X dvd-r for burning. On the contrary I never knew it can write on ‘+’ format!

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6. Dinosaur

   

   By: Andy
   August 28, 2004 @ 5:40 PM

   The drive works well, except with only 2x -RW it will soon be troublesome to find suitable -RW media on the shelf.
   I was in a large electronics department store the other day and the only brand name -RW media on the shelf was 4x, which this drive doesn’t support. At the same time they had sold out of 4x +RW media. So I was stuck.
   You would be crazy to buy this drive, when 16x units are not that much more expensive.

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7. Good drive

   

   By: ben k
   March 9, 2004 @ 9:52 PM

   Haven’t had any issues with it.

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8. dvd burner

   

   By: mullmen00
   February 9, 2004 @ 11:55 PM

   xbox psx2 does it all
   ;)

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9. Nice drive

   

   By: Yan
   February 1, 2004 @ 8:42 AM

   Fast and save burning of DVD+r, I haven’t tried the -r but I don’t expect any problems there als

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