Re: DVD Burners

2006-01-16 Thread Travis Roy
P.S. I got a $60 Philips DVD player from Best Buy and it plays almost anything, including MPEG-4. I have an LG upconversion (to HD) player that does Divx/Xvid. I love it. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhl

Re: DVD Burners

2006-01-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 16, 2006, at 13:54, Travis Roy wrote: If you get a drive, make sure it supports "booktyping" Basically it burns a DVD+RW disk as booktype "DVD-ROM" This lets you play a video DVD in any commercial DVD drive, since it acts like a "normal" DVD. In case anyone else doesn't know what a b

Re: DVD Burners

2006-01-16 Thread Travis Roy
t was FAST. :-) Quite frankly, with the way that DVD burners, speeds and standards are changing, I would not get an internal drive. Just use your USB 2.0 or Firewire interface to hook it to everything. I am in the process of buying a new "desktop" machine, and I have specified at leas

Re: DVD Burners

2006-01-16 Thread Jon maddog Hall
I have used the Sony External USB and Firewire 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW/CD-RW drive with SuSE 10.0 and it worked great in burning DVD+R and DVD-R, as well as installing SuSE off the DVD to a machine. And it was FAST. :-) Quite frankly, with the way that DVD burners, speeds and standards are

DVD Burners

2006-01-16 Thread Lawrence Tilly
ys I think it's probably a pretty safe assumption ), I am wondering if anyone has any direct experience with HP DVD burners. The specific one I'm lookin at is thier 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW/CD-RW drive. They have both Internal and External ( USB 2 ) versions. The Internal version is a b