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Philips' JackRabbit32 DVD/CD-RW External Drive

Posted by timothy on from the cheaper-than-a-notebook-with-superdrive dept.

James Bell writes "Designtechnica.com has just posted a brief first look of Philips new JackRabbit32 external DVD/CD-RW drive. This appears to be the first information leaked on the net about this product from what I can tell. This drive has multiple video out ports for hook up to a television or other video sources. There is also Dolby Digital 5.1 support as well as USB 2.0 and Firewire support. The drive can also play audio or MP3 CD's as well. Since the decoder is onboard, it should be easy to get the Jackrabbit32 to run under Linux I would imagine."

2 of 147 comments (clear)

  1. It's not ready yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When the Jackrabbit can write DVD's, CD-RW's, or CD-R's detached from the PC, then it's my choice. Hey, my Commodore 1571 Disk Drive could do that in 1983!

  2. Linux support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Doens't support linux,hunh? Good, I hope it never does because that is a piece of shit OS written by a bunch of handout hippies always looking for freebies. Get a job you smelly worthless bums. If one of your slobs crapped out the code to support the jackoffrabbit under linux, it would probably break and you shitheads would blame the hardware, not the duct-tape open sores os. What a bunch of dipshits.