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HP DVD100i DVD+RW Burner Tested

Posted by timothy on from the hardware-lust-spirals-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "I'm fairly sure this is the first review of a DVD+RW drive. Looks like it fared well in testing. The only downsides to the 100i are slow DAE with audio CD's, lousy manuals, and it can't read DVD-RW (note the dash instead of the plus) discs. Still a tad expensive at 599USD though. Are you reading, Santa?" I want this as a heavy-duty *external* drive :)

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  1. $600? we'll all own one in three years by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this is great. $600 now means they'll be $150 three years down the line, and they'll be as ubiquitous as CD-RWs are now.

    boy there's gonna be some piracy problems :D

  2. Apple got there first by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe the poster of this article should look for reviews of Apple's G4 desktop macine, it's been shipping with a Panasonic DVR-103 DVD-RW drive as standard for quite a while now.

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  3. Waiting for standards unification by jpostel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I waited on the 56k v.90 standard for a while and I can wait on this to get sorted out too. If it were something a little bit cheaper then I would not mind spending the money on this, but since they cost >$500 I will wait.

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