Quietest PC DVD Player?

boe · Post by **boe** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:59 pm

What are the quietest DVD players for PC's available?

Thanks

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:46 pm

LG is usually a brand to trust.

Do you just want a DVD-ROM, or DVD-Writer thing as well?

boe · Post by **boe** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 4:20 pm

Thanks for the reply. I would ideally have a quiet DVD player - I don't need the recorder but I notice my current one - a sony, is both loud and does send some noise/static when it is active to the sound card. I have the latest drivers for everything so it isn't an os/driver/patch issue. The cable I am using is pretty HQ so that isn't it either. I was thinking an SATA DVD drive might help as they become more common.

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:34 pm

About S-ATA - to be perfectly honest, don't bother.

Save your SATA connectors for speedy Hard-drives, there's no DVD-ROM out there that can beat even ATA-33 at this time, that I am aware of. Might as well do it with normal IDE and save the good stuff for where it counts

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Sizzle · Post by **Sizzle** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:19 am

Sony's 16x DVD player is considered to be quiet. Toshiba's are not too bad either.

At this point for a optical drive, SATA does not really offer any advantages. It is more effecient then PATA, but the optical drives would not take advantage of this at this point.

SATA cables allow for better airflow then PATA cables. I suppose if you went all SATA across all your drives, you could disable your PATA controller thus freeing up some resources.

I have two SATA Raptors and a Plextor 712SA SATA DVD burner on the way. My DVD drive is still PATA though.

boe · Post by **boe** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:20 am

shathal wrote:About S-ATA - to be perfectly honest, don't bother.

Save your SATA connectors for speedy Hard-drives, there's no DVD-ROM out there that can beat even ATA-33 at this time, that I am aware of. Might as well do it with normal IDE and save the good stuff for where it counts .

Thanks, I wasn't worried about speed. I was told (although I'm not sure if I believe) that SATA should help reduce feedback created by drives. Right now I get a tiny bit of electrical feedback on my sound card when my DVD is in high speed.

mjolson · Post by **mjolson** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:42 am

The Toshiba M1712 is often recommended on the HTPC forum at AVS. I have one and find DVD playback to be very quiet - much more so than my old Pioneer 104s.

POLIST8 · Post by **POLIST8** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:50 am

FYI - LITE-Ons are NOT quiet. They are great drives, but their ball-bearing motors are loud as F%$#.

MagusG · Post by **MagusG** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:02 am

Isnt that Samsung SM-352 supposed to be pretty quiet? 8mb cache... 52x read/write and 16x dvd. Thats what I plan on getting one of these days.
-Mag

davidstone28 · Post by **davidstone28** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:01 am

Surely, all optical drives by nature are noisy?

I've had everything from Pioneer, TEAC, Mitsumi to Lite-On, and they've all been noisy when they spin up.

The only thing you can do is to Nero Drive speed them down to x1 or x2 when viewing DVDs which is fine for viewing movies.

MagusG · Post by **MagusG** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:20 pm

Surely, all optical drives by nature are noisy?

Not necessisarily, that samsung drive I mentioned has 3 technologies that are geared towards dampening the sound. Check out the review at the SPCR main site.
-Mag

BTW Thanks for the Nero CDspeed check thought, I had never really considered it, I dropped my Jet Engine Pioneer Slot drive(1st gen) down to 2x and I cant even tell its running when I watch a DVD, beautiful....

prof99 · Post by **prof99** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:34 pm

The only thing I don't like about the Samsung 352B is that it has different levels of cache for oem and retail versions. Unfortunately, the black version, which is the version I want, is only available in oem, with a 2mb cache. It probably doesn't make that much of a difference, but due to this fact, I'm going to go with the LG 4521B intead, which should be just as quiet. At least I'll get a faster rewrite speed out of it...

windmiller · Post by **windmiller** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:09 am

Samsung 616 are pretty quiet. There are few different variations, I have a 616T and its quiet. Many of the 616 come with Dells and Compaqs but can be bought separate.

SebRad · Post by **SebRad** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:49 am

Hi, my solution to playing DVDs quietly is to rip them to the hard disc and then use the "DVD Files on hard disc" mode of Power DVD to play them. Like this you get exactly the same functionality (all the menus/sound tracks/extras etc) with none of the noise of the DVD drive. The down side is I need to be organised and rip the movie before hand as it takes up to 30 mins.
Seb

acaurora · Post by **acaurora** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:46 pm

I have Pioneer's 8x DVD burner, the L07 model, with the bright n shiny metal eject button and nice metallic front bezel. It's super quiet when playing DVDs. However it becomes slightly audible with CDs/burning CDs.

JVM · Post by **JVM** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 3:44 pm

I have a Samsung 816B DVD player that is absolutely dead silent - even when sticking in a CD. Less than 6 months and it stopped working! The CD goes in and the light flickers, and flickers, and flickers, but nothing happens.

mpteach · Post by **mpteach** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:40 pm

How are the NU TECH and NEC models?

wheredoibegin · Post by **wheredoibegin** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:46 pm

I would recomend a program called cdrom tool (free, GPL) and set your drive to a lower than maximum speed. Works wonders for watching movies and did i mention that it is free?

mystic_fm · Post by **mystic_fm** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:34 pm

I have a brand new Samsung SD-616EEPB reader. It's nice and quiet when playing back DVDs, but I think it may have to be sent back because it is giving me a LOT of errors when reading of both DVDs and CDs (starting with my Windows XP install, which should have been an early clue in retrospect). I doubt it is something simple like the IDE cable, because this is the slave on the same cable and channel which has a Pioneer DVR-107 in the master position, and that unit has worked flawlessly thus far. If the Samsung ODD is the problem, I just hope it's just a single iffy unit rather than representative of the model as a whole.

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