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New Low Cost DVD Burners Hit The Streets

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the budget-disc-creation dept.

SpinnerBait writes "DVD burners, until recently, have been a bit too pricey for the average consumer that just wants to backup large amounts of data or rescue a failing DVD movie disc. However, OEMs like AOpen have finally broken the $100 price point, as this article and performance analysis at HotHardware reports. Performance, for this sub $100 DVD burner was respectable as well, burning almost an entire DVD's worth of data in about 15 minutes. Not too shabby at all... just in time for the holidays."

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  1. floppy by potpie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now we have CD burners and rewritable CDs that can store over 650 megabytes of data. We have writable DVDs that are able to store entire movies in very high quality video. There are countless other data storage formats such as memory sticks, smart cards, and others that can store wide ranges of amounts of data from 8 megabytes to 128 megabytes and up. So which do I use most often? My 1.44 megabyte floppy drive.

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    1. Re:floppy by blankmange · · Score: 4, Funny

      I know they are here somewhere..... there they are, covered with a layer of dust -- hell, the drive itself is penetrated so seldom it thinks it is a virgin...

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    2. Re:floppy by dvdeug · · Score: 4, Funny

      So which do I use most often? My 1.44 megabyte floppy drive.

      So have you completed your first hard drive backup yet? Only 20,000 disks to go . . .

    3. Re:floppy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hey! I used a slide-rule on a Civil Engineering exam just this semester...I needed a straight edge and couldn't find my protractor, so I slid out the slide and...

    4. Re:floppy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Chick... "Hey, what's that in your pocket?"

      You... "A 5 1/4-inch shiny."

      Huh. Doesn't sound much better than the floppy, actually.

  2. Re:Nice... by Hatechall · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess it depends on what film you are burning. If you are fair-using "A Wonderful Life" or "Indiana Jones" then the picture will be pretty good, but if you bootleg crossroads, it may suck.

  3. Re:but how well do they work? by einstein · · Score: 5, Funny

    What good is a CD Burner if it chunks 20% of your discs?

    I love word problems!

    *ahem*

    80% good.

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  4. The birth of DVDR ISOs by disc-chord · · Score: 4, Funny

    DVDR isos have been around for a couple years now, slowly gaining popularity (especially among console gamers). But this is going to be the real step towards mainstream DVDRs.

    DVD Player $40
    DVD Burner $80
    DVD Media $1/pop
    MPAA going down like a $2 hooker... priceless.

    It is now a lot cheaper to pirate DVD movies than it is to rent. Forget your Divx, delete your P2P programs. It's time to embrace the new age of digital piracy. I'll see ya all on alt.binaries.dvdr ;)