Customer Reviews

Cendyne CDICD00225 Internal EIDE 4x2x12 DVD+RW Drive

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This player is actually made by NEC and it is very easy to use and get up and running. All I did was to take out my CD-RW burner in my PC and replace it with this drive. To do that, all you need to do is take out any restraining screws on the old drive and disconnect the IDE cable and power connector and then slide it out. After you slide out your old drive, look on the back of it and make a note of which "jumper" the little plastic shunt is on (mine was on CSEL). Then place the plastic shunt on this drive in the exact same place as on the drive you just took out, slide it in, connect the power and IDE cables, and you will be good to go. Put the cover back on the PC and boot it up and if you have Win XP it will automatically load the drivers and you will be all set (no need to load any additional drivers).

This unit comes with two light versions of Nero, WinDVD, and some other utilities. I ended up just using my copy of Ulead VideoStudio 6 to burn my first DVD because the light Nero versions were not capable of burning to DVD unless you upgraded them to a paid version (so keep that in mind).

But even with that, I would say this is a very capable drive for the money and I was able to play a test DVD+RW that came with the unit on my new Zenith and also on an older Pioneer unit without any trouble.

Good Value/Highly Recommended