Pros: cheap. $1.03 disc. Half way through a stack made 1 coaster. was my own doing. They play fine in both lg stand alone br players in my home. Some comment on the color of the discs. they are white on blue. A black sharpie shows up fine on it.. I Think the color scheme is a whole lot better than the verbatim's blue on white.

Cons: only burn at 4x with nero 10, dvdfab and image burn.. which is fine

Overall Review: everything is groovy with the sony optiarc br drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118050

Pros: it's a very cool design. It's heavy and solidly built, no flimsiness to it at all.

Cons: I purchased this 1.5 years ago. When doing research I saw several reviews mentioning issues with installing video and other add-on cards. I figured they we being crazy. I didn't consider these reviews. I assumed these people had no clue, something everyone encounters in reviews. But I had issues with seating my video card. At first I thought my card was screwy (XFX 290x) and sent it to xfx for repair. What was happening: the bios didn't always detect the card and would boot to a black screen, or I'd get errors and lock-ups while in windows or playing a game. In a previous build I had this case in black and don't recall this problem. The problem is: The mobo mounting plate is set too deep by 1/16-3/32 of an inch. My solution to this was, bending the screw tab on my card as straight as possible so it could go deep enough to properly seat. I now have a zip tie holding the card up and in...it works

Overall Review: take the reviews criticizing the pci/pci-e slots seriously.

Pros: got this to repace my asus vw222 was a black friday special $199 w/free shipping deffinately worth the price. It's still worth the current price of $259. It's very bright had no dead pixels and all my games look great!

Cons: I have no complaints right now

Overall Review: love it! get one!

Pros: they work they're bright

Cons: they aren't very purple as described in other reviews.

Overall Review: Take a purple sharpie nd color the tubes. They are a deep purple now.