Philips CDD3610

For many people, the joy of copying CD`s is actually a frustrating waste of time. Volatile CD-RW drives need little excuse to play up and before you know it, you have another ruined CDR to use as a coaster for your cup of coffe! Ok so maybe they`re nopt that bad. In fact, the unassuming CD - RW drive has brought a great deal of satisfaction to PC users but even the most saintly among us have cursed their unreliablity. This new CDRWW from phillips attacks one of the main causes of bad burns with its new thermo balanced writing (TBW) technology. A CD - RW uses a laser to write data to dis and because lasers gererate heat, if it does this to quickly or ...  Read the complete review

CD-RW (Re-Writeable) drive are in my view the best way to back up data on a Pc, especially knowing how unreliable most P.C’s are. I have always wanted a CD-RW drive and was blessed with its presence when I purchased my new P.C for Gateway (That’s another opinion). Basically, for those woe haven’t got a clue what these drive are, there are a different type of CD drive, physically the same which can actually write data to a CD medium. CDRW medium is slightly, but most importantly different from the CDR medium. Both these types of CD can be bought relative cheaply from anywhere nowadays, even supermarkets. But where ...  Read the complete review

In the last few years, prices for CD recorders have dropped considerably. They have almost lost their meaning as status symbols as well. Millions of Compact Discs containing music or computer data are made by home users every day all over the world. CD recorders differ mainly in their write speed, but the interface, buffer size and the read speed are just as important. Phillips used to be the number one address for cutting edge CD recorders for a long while, but recently Sony, Teac and AOpen offer their own 12speed writers as well. Others like Asus are also close to the launch of their CDR. We took a quick look at AOpen's new model. Installing a CD-ROM ...  Read the complete review

I bought this CR-RW over a year ago now and have very mixed feelings about the drive. The drive looks quite nice with a sexy red tray button, volume control, disc in light and disc writing light. On the whole it generally seems ok but I have had some very strange experiences with it. After I had the drive about 11 months I was backing up a load of files to CDR and all of a sudden the drive froze and there was nothing I could do but reboot. When I did Windows 98 took over 20 minutes to load. The first thing I suspected was that when the drive froze it corrupted the Hard Drive but after running various checks and de-fragging the Hard Drive (twice!) it was ...  Read the complete review

I purchased this CD -RW and it installed ok and worked fine for 2 weeks then started making as many Coasters as it did CD's so I sent it back to Phillips to get it re - calibrated after some 2 months of ownership. It came back and worked ok for a time then some 11 months later it stopped working all together and my computer would not start untill I took the ide cable out of the damn thing.....Phillips said "its only Guarenteed for 12 months and you've had it for 13 so your on your own kid" or words to that effect ...  Read the complete review