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Mad Dog Dominator 6 DVD Burner

Mar 3, 2004 4:35AM PST

Does anybody have any experience with this Dominator 6 DVD Burner? I am looking to get one for my desktop PC which has a Pentium III 500 Mh CPU and Win XP for the OS. I'm into digital video editing and would like to put my videos on DVD's. Most other DVD burners I have looked at recommend at least 800 MH CPU speed but the Dominator info says it works with 400 Mh or higher cpu speed.

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Re:Mad Dog Dominator 6 DVD Burner
Mar 3, 2004 5:10AM PST

The actual bottom end is rather loose, but consider my P4 2.0 GHz takes about 6 hours to render a 2 hour DVD. The simple answer is your patience may be pressed as you wait a day for your DVD to "get ready to record."

I'm not writing that this unit is better or worse, but that the others are just moving the bar up a little so the users won't complain so much about how many hours they wait.

Bob

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Re:Re:Mad Dog Dominator 6 DVD Burner
Mar 5, 2004 6:44AM PST

Thanks to you and Art for responding to my question. I am not really concerned about the waiting since I am used to the long rendering process even just recording the finished movie to tape. My concern I guess is whether the dvd burner will burn dvd's as its manufactrer says or will it produce 'coasters'
as some people have reported with other dvd burners. I have not read any review on this machine that's why I was asking. Thanks.

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Re:Mad Dog Dominator 6 DVD Burner
Mar 3, 2004 10:43AM PST

Your burner is only one part of the equation and in my opinion..problaly the least importance. I think almost all burner can do the job.

The other parts of the equations are capture device, harddrive storage, ram, computer speed, software/s and maybe the OS itself. Just my 2 cents.