Hi Everyone,

I'm a 22 year old white male. My birthday is April 13th 1983, and I live in Vancouver BC Canada. I am a media tester by hobby, and have direct and frequent contact with Optodisc America, and Maxell Canada. I also have contacts with Daxon Taiwan, and BenQ Taiwan. In the past I've worked closely with Ritek USA as well.

As for personally, I work within the media industry, doing many various things. I spend probably 12 hours a day on my computer. I don't sleep much, and my only guilty pleasure (other then my girlfriend) is my interests in Japanese Animation (aka Anime). My obsession with anime is the only thing that can compare with my obsession with optical media.... although it still takes a noticable second place.

Over the last year or so, I've gained a much larger web presence, and can now be found on sites such as this one, as well as CDRlabs.com, redflagdeals.com, blankmedia.ca, and was recently quoted as a source for an article on canoe.ca (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/Gazin/2005/05/12/1036856.html).

Currently I own 8 DVD burners, and 2 CD burners, but my collection is often growing and changing with the industry.

Well, that's everything I can think of... any questions?

LOL your interests are similar as mine.. we're also about the same age. =)

(in reply to Dolphinius_Rex)

I don't suppose you live in Canada though?

(in reply to Quikee)

8 dvd burners? do you have any spare?

(in reply to Dolphinius_Rex)

I use all the burners I own... yes, I use BOTH of my BenQ DW1620's even

And for the first time ever, I'm about to break my "rule of 8" about DVD burners. I'm going to finally own 9 DVD burners at the same time (my total in life will then be 11). That will be a BenQ DW1640, which I will ALSO use

(in reply to Iggy)

How about 10? The new NEC 3540 will be a challenge for your collection, don't you think?

(in reply to Dolphinius_Rex)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Iggy

How about 10? The new NEC 3540 will be a challenge for your collection, don't you think?

Well, whether or not I get one will depend largely on whether or not NEC announces a new drive before I have the oppurtunity to pick one up! I've been a little cheesed at how quickly NEC drops drive production and makes new burners. I have an NEC 3500a, after which came the NEC 3520, NEC 3530, and now NEC 3540... and I've had it for less time then my BenQ DW1620 which is just JUST now being replaced with the BenQ DW1640 (which will arrive today in my office!). But if NEC can hold their horses and start making drives to last longer then 2-3 months at most, I'll start looking at getting them again.

(in reply to Iggy)

Yes, this with NEC, every month a new drive sucks.

I got a 3520 and I think I won't change it.

(in reply to Dolphinius_Rex)

i have  a  phillups  4801  cdrw   drive   and  it cam out of  a  compaq  presario    2001  model   i  just  got  a  new  mother board  and  cpu  and 512  memeory      it is an elitegroup   kt600-a  board  with  a sempron   cpu         evrything  seems  to be  working  fine   when i llok at  device  mngr  says  this device is  working properly    all driver are   the best ones  it can  find  for it   but  when i look at  the  system devices  it  says  it  sees  a  cd rw   as  the  name   but  really  when it says its  capabilitys   it says   cdrom    does not  say it  is  an rw     works  great as  a cd rom   but  i can get  it to do everything when i try to  burnn a disc  but  burn  it 
    its greyed out  our  says  that   there is  no disc  in drive      i tried all different  ones  to        can  you  even   make any sence  of wehat i am trying to say   ?   very sorry for all the spell and  typos   in kinda  a rush    thanks   a ton

(in reply to Iggy)

Did you install the drivers for your new mobo?

(in reply to damon)

yes  i  used the  disk that  came with it 
as far as i know they  all went to where they are suppose to

(in reply to Iggy)

yes  i used  the disc that came with m/b   i assume  it  all went to where it was  intended    to go

(in reply to damon)

Can you burn?

(in reply to damon)