DVD Burner Comparison 75
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."
Linux (Score:3, Interesting)
Media still not worth it (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Hoping it was VHS-DVD burners... (Score:2, Interesting)
You call that a roundup? (Score:3, Interesting)
Well, that's nice. Too bad only one of those in signficant in the Optical drive mass market - Lite-On. HP drives are going to pretty much be in HP systems. Plextor offers the most expensive drives around and they're just not that interesting to people.
Maybe they should have included Sony, ToshibaSamsung, NEC, or some other companies that actually sell a shitload of drives on the retail market. Lite-On was a good call, though.
Re:Pioneer DVR-111D (Score:1, Interesting)
Why aren't reviewers taking DVD makers to task for being so behind the curve on everything else? S-ATA isn't exactly new. Apple has been releasing almost nothing but slot-loading drives for a while now (except for the PowerMac line).
And yet it's hard to find either a slot-loading DVD burner, or a S-ATA DVD burner -- and AFAICT impossible to find one that's both.
S-ATA is an improvement over (P-)ATA because it uses smaller cables, not because it's faster -- most people weren't hitting the speed limitations of ATA-133, anyway. And as soon as they start making a serious selection of S-ATA optical drives, we won't need old-fashioned P-ATA connectors on motherboards, which means they can get smaller.
Come on, guys, 12x? 16? We just don't care anymore. But let us put a slot-loading DVD burner on a really tiny motherboard, and now we're talking.