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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. woo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    woo

  2. Holidays? by register_ax · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Just in time for the holidays huh? I don't get that. Of course I will be modded to hell and of course someone will state the philanthropist slide to it all. It's all about giving. Giving you say? Right, all tucked away in your warm cozy houses while people lay in misery around the world. Oh, but of course we can't dwell on issues like that and have to let ourselves LIVE! Right. You know how about you do that, but also open your home to someone from the street. Yeah, why don't you go down to a place where people live a "different lifestyle" and show them that you are a loving group of people. Maybe you offer someone who's a recovering alcoholic because his entire family has perished in a car accident. Or maybe a young adult who lives an unorthodox lifestyle because his social circle doesn't really have the same morals as the rest of us. Yeah, I know, you can always go to the "soup kitchen" and help. What does that say? Efficiency in mode of distribution? I say it lacks deeper meaning (to some degree).

    Hey, if you want to state it's a christian holiday celebrating the birth of christ himself, then great. But then why do so many people get upset when I say I'm not celebrating it? Or when I have no gifts to give?

    Well yeah, this is all a huge rant and I'll stop now, but maybe I left you with something to think about. And I do know (hope) some people are still inherrently good. It's just with soup kitchens only temporarily fixing a problem, but I'll save the dead-end efforts for another day.

  3. Mosfet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Liquid.

    Now!