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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. Re:That's why they're cheap by dpilot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And once the dual layer drives are out, it'll be time to wait for shorter-wavelength burning, or some other must-have feature.

    Computing and electronics is always a game of 'enough for now, at a price I can handle.'

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    The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
  2. Re:That's why they're cheap by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. Don't jump on the bandwagon the day stuff hits the streets, wait until it hits the streets. As in the curb. People are throwing away old systems like mad now.
    I just picked up a CLEAN (non smoker) PII 400 with a CDR & a CDRW & a ZIP. 8 gigs, plus loaded with win98 and and a few games. All I had to do was pick up up from a trash pile and wipe the dust off of it. The power supply was dead. It works GREAT now. Yeah, slow but, it was all but free. $15 for a new ATX power supply and I have a PC that people would have once KILLED to have.

    Guess what? Load it up with Linux and you've got a damn nice server for next to nothing.

    I've got dozens and dozens up more dozens of old PC's this way. Just drive and and scan the rubish heaps, see something, stop and grab it. It's FREE..

    Now, when will people start throwing P4's out??