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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. This must be... by AzBats · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The end of CD-RWs?

    --
    A Brit in Tallahassee.
  2. Are these low cost DVD Burners Linux Compatible by HidingMyName · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I realize these may be foolish questions, but I don't own any DVD Drives (but that might change). Do DVD burners/drives have an interface standard and what is the status of Linux support (e.g. is it like cdrecord)? If not, are any of these drives supported? Have DVD drive owners been happy with Linux run time support? And finally are there any good GUI wrappers, for CDs they have xcdroast, which does what I want.

  3. That's why they're cheap by gilesjuk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any sensible person will wait for dual layer drives. Will be able to backup DVD films and fit nearly twice as much data on a disc. Not to mention you can still do single layer if you really have to.