DVD Burner Round-up

Julio writes "Gone are the days of storage floppies and zip drives... CD-RW drives do an excellent job in making cheap backups and just about every new computer is equipped with one. As computers and software evolve, so will media. DVD burner drives are already optional equipment on many computers, and will probably become a standard within the next year. Are you ready for a DVD burner? TechSpot has posted a round-up of flagship DVD recorders from Plextor, Panasonic and Pioneer."

Comments

I could settle this would standards mess with $200

[Prince_Ali]

I could settle this would standards mess with $200. As soon as I buy a -R drive +R would become the standard, and if I bought a +R drive -R would become the standard. My refusal to buy a DVD writer is the only thing keeping the industry from standardizing.

Cool! Now I can impress my friends ...

[muriloq]

... using DVDs as coasters for the beer cans!

Re:Not Buying One Yet

[Shenkerian]

Wow is your nick appropriate.

Buy a +/-R[W] and you're good to go.

Re:I could settle this would standards mess with $

[biggerboy]

Please don't buy a combo drive! Then someone would come out with a new format that would become the standard and we would all be screwed.

Somebody tell

[Anonymous Coward]

Gone are the days of storage floppies and zip drive

this guy.

DVD Burners and Divx

[aardwolf204]

Great, now instead of those nice 710MB Divx files, I'll be downloading 4.71GB 'Full Qualify' DIVX's off Kazaa.

At least I will finally get that collection of 710MB Divx's off my to-burn partition.

Re:I could settle this would standards mess with $

[Anonvmous Coward]

" As soon as I buy a -R drive +R would become the standard, and if I bought a +R drive -R would become the standard."

Great, he bought a combo drive. We all need to switch to DVD-RAM now.

Re:Not Buying One Yet

[cdrudge]

Yeah...but it doesn't do DVD-RAM? That's where I'm placing my money on.

Re:UUB keychains

[christopherfinke]

I'm trying to talk the Promotions guy into giving these away with our logo on them. I figure that the 64 Meg ones can't be that expensive in bulk.

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Chris Finke
18165 County Road 50
Hamburg, MN 55339 USA

Keep up the great work!

Re:Not Buying One Yet

[Anonymous Coward]

i am waiting for the new line of DVD-EEPROM drives to make it to the states

Re:I could settle this would standards mess with $

[pmz]

As soon as I buy a -R drive +R would become the standard, and if I bought a +R drive -R would become the standard.

Just buy one of those 10 or 15-bay external drive towers. Then, you'd have room for each DVD standard as it emerges while keeping all the old DVD drives around for legacy support. You should also get a PCI expansion enclosure, so you can be sure to have enough SCSI controllers to handle all the external drive towers you will eventually get.

With six PCI slots plus a built-in host adapter, you could, in theory, support 7x15=105--yes, that's 105--DVD standards before needing more PCI slots and SCSI controllers.

I'd say you would need only $15,000 to guarantee 100% compatibility with all the DVD discs you might come across. At such an affordable price point, why are you hesitating?!?

Re:CDBurners not the end for high-capacity Zip dri

[ReelOddeeo]

Oh, shut up. Those silly Macs will try to boot off anything that even looks like it might have a filesystem.