"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
> I think there might be a confusion of terms here. To me a "burner" is a
> computer peripheral, and an external burner is one that connects by cable to
> a USB, parallel, or Firewire port on the computer instead of needing to be
> installed inside the case.
I'm pretty sure that the term burner is just a slang term possibly coined by
someone in the recording industry because they thought that it sounded cool.
Technically any device that is capable of creating a CD with something on it
from a blank CD could be called a burner. I'm not sure and I'd have to check
with my daughter, but there may be professional equipment capable of making or
"burning" an audio CD from a digital source such as a DAT independent of the
need for a computer.
But I don't think that I have ever seen a manufacture use the term "burner"
either on the box it came in or on the unit itself. CD Writer also really can't
be used generically because it is a trademark name of HP's drive.
Even CNET has copped out listing them as CDR/CDRW drives. It doesn't make
sense. They should have been called CD writable and CD re-writable. In one the
"R" stands for "Recordable", in the other it stands for "Re" followed by
Writable. I would have named them CDWR and CDW thus keeping the term "writable"
constant. Also in computer terms, one never "records" to a drive. You write to
it.
It is only in audio that the term recordable is used.
Lawrence
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