What a Monday!
I beat my habitual friend Procrastination and finally bought a DVD drive for the media center. What more, assembled it the same day as well.
There are very few options for DVD drives - feature-wise. The usual suspects are Memorex, Sony, Pioneer and HP. Emperex and others round up the vendors. What do they offer?
1. Multi format support
2. Grey/Black bezels
3. Nero seven applications suite
4. Lightscribe
5. E-IDE cables
6. Analog audio cables
7. Flash ROM for firmware upgrades
In my quick analysis, Memorex offered all these at $69.99 (at Fry's Fremont) with a free blank DVD. The others did not have one feature or more at the same price range.
What next?
Install movie editing software.
Freaky but true, a friend called to ask me about DVD writing speeds while I was installing the new drive. I am now positively positive that I am being stalked.
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how far away is blueray or hd-dvd drive from being commercially (and economically viable)
ReplyDeleteI would say that they are 2009 Christmas season items. The marketing wheel are working hard to create the 'need' right now. ;) I see the odd internal drives being posted here and there.
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