[ltp] recommendation on external DVD reader/writer

[wes schreiner]

Eben King wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, James McKenzie wrote:
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>>I would look at as many models as you can before making your purchasing 
>>decision.  I would demand DVD+ and DVD-.  Double layer is a nice plus 
>>but I would wait to see what happens as there are two 'standards' out there.
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>And the discs are prohibitively expensive, unles you NEED >4.2GB filespace
>that you can't subdivide.
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I agree. Forget about double layer, it's just this year's gimmick. I 
predict that before the blank media comes down to reasonable price 
levels we will have Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drives available, and then double 
layer will be obsolete. I just bought a DVD burner, but instead of 
getting a double layer drive I got a Plextor with a larger buffer. 
Definitely get a burner that can write both DVD+ and DVD- media. Even 
so, it will probably prefer one over the other so read the specs carefully.

wes