Phillips CD Burner

[Hoosier724]

I have a chance to get a Phillips 8x4x32 burner this weekend at a local auction. It appears that the box has been opened but none of the software has been opened nor has the seal been broken on the burner package. I was just wondering if this was worth going after due to its age...thanks again

[DutchMaster]

Depends what the price is.

[DutchMaster]

They are OK burners. If its indeed not used, it will work as new.
Watch out for those drivedoors, they tend to break. If your lucky the supportdepartment still has replacements on stock. They will send it without any costs. So no big worry there.
Also the software may be outdated. If you're lucky it's supplied with Nero 5.0+ (free webupgrade to winXP). Easy CD creator 4.0 supplied with those burners won't work with winXP, neither is there a free update.

But since its speed and its age (at least 1 1/2 year old), they can't ask much for it. A deal would be $20, a fair price should stay under $35

[consumertalks]

That was my first CD burner ever, and I think the best. I've got a much faster burner now, but after a TDK VeloCD and a Sony burner, I appreciate the Phillips. It's the only CD burner I've used that's a true "disc at once".

A few friends of mine are dj's, and when I try to track out their demos into individual tracks per song, it works, but there's a tenth of a second between tracks, which makes them not seemless.. and that doesn't sound good for a dj's demo. The Phillips burner was seamless, track to track with no interruption.

Just my experience, though, not many people need seemless track to track play.

[agathodaimon]

Phillips drives are pretty good.
i've had a 40x12x40 drive for about 8 months now, and the thing works great. It can be a little noisy though, but that's not a big deal.

I'd go with what DutchMaster says & keep it under $35 though.... wouldn't wanna pay more for a drive of that speed.

[DutchMaster]

I used to do support for Philips drives. But I'm not that fan for those new drives. I'm glad they are shipping it with Nero though these days.
Accept for the design error of the weak drive doors, the drives from 1208 and older are great drives. From those the 804 was the best drive Philips IMO those days. It could do things with cloneCD others couldn't (except Plextor offcourse)

The very old skool CDD3610 was true the best drive Philips ever made. I had customers still asking stuff about it and a friend of my still has one in use. That was the best selled drive Philips ever marketed.