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DVD Burner Comparison

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-boot-from-to-boot-to-boot dept.

mikemuch writes "While you're waiting for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, you may want to check out ExtremeTech's roundup of dual-layer DVD burners. Starting at about $43US, some of them are quite powerful, come with nice bundled software, and are pretty good deals, to boot."

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  1. skip the crap by spacemky · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do not pass go; go directly to the summary page:
    Final Thoughts: What to buy

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    640YB ought to be enough for anybody.
  2. Quality of the burns? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One area the article completely ignores is the quality of the burns? They don't mention if they had any troubles playing back anything that was burned on these drives. Compatibility with existing dvd players is a big deal and it would have been nice to see some mention of this in the test. Having the ability to burn a dvd that only half of my friends/family can play twice as fast (or half the cost) is useless.

  3. Speed, speed, speed... by 4of11 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do these kinds of reviews always focus on speed alone? Who cares if it takes a couple of minutes longer to burn a DVD with one drive versus another? It's not like you have to sit there with baited breath as the DVD burns -- you can do other things.

    I'd rather see a comparison of noise or rate-of-coaster-production. I recently got a new DVD burner which works rather well as far as speed and reliability, but is way too noisy, even when I'm just playing a DVD with it. I have to use my old DVD-ROM drive for playback.

    I guess its harder to test those things, though. You can't just load up some benchmark it let it run.

  4. Re:To boot? by MentlFlos · · Score: 4, Funny

    404 - funny not found.