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rd382   04-25-2001 at 05:54:05 AM

I have just learned that this summer HP and Philips will be coming out with DVD rewrite drives!! this was big news to me basicly for the fact that they can store 7.4 times the amount of data that cds can store (4.7GB compared to 650MB). I just hope Tom does a quality review of 4 or 5 DVDRW drives

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Anonymous   04-26-2001 at 02:54:06 AM
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did it say what the speed on these would be?

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Anonymous   04-26-2001 at 03:18:13 AM
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I've read that sometime this summer Compaq will supposedly be packaging Pioneer DVD+RW drives as an option on several of there computer systems. The Pioneer DVD+RW drives themselves will also go on sale this summer at around $1000 us. Im not sure what the recording speed will be though.

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rd382   04-26-2001 at 08:25:17 AM
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probubly by extremly slow and expencive but THE POSIBILITIES!! check out dvdrw.com they seem to have a good hold on things

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Anonymous   04-26-2001 at 11:14:52 AM
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DVD-RW drives have been out, Pioneer has had it out for a while... there called DVD-RAM drives,
HP came out with a CDRW-DVD combo drive thats pretty nice... personly i would wait for something with burn-proof

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rd382   04-26-2001 at 11:53:10 PM
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do you know what there speed is at?

this was the first i had herd of them

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Anonymous   04-28-2001 at 02:23:54 AM
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No im not talking about the DVD-RAM drives.. those are stupid cuz they are proprietery and you cannot play the dvd disks in anything but a DVD-RAM recorder/reader.
Now DVD+RW is the sh!t.. cuz you can play the disks in any DVD player. Pioneer will soon release there DVD+RW model to consumers.

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Anonymous   04-28-2001 at 02:32:20 AM
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I think SHEEKSTA is confusing CDRW + DVD combo drives with the DVD/CD recorders were talking about.

Any way I found out the Pioneer drive model is DVR-A03 and it will start out at 2x record speed, it will cost around $995 and will be availble at the end of May. :)

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rd382   04-30-2001 at 02:20:56 AM
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lol 1000 for 2x!!!

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Anonymous   05-01-2001 at 05:04:16 PM
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yep 2x speed... but keep in mind that 2x in dvd speed is comparable to roughly 12x cd speed. So 2x is not as bad as it sounds.

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rd382   05-02-2001 at 04:40:09 AM
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but still once dvdrw becomes more widly know about then prices for 20x cdrw drives will drop il guess ill just have to see how it plays out thats for the info

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Anonymous   05-04-2001 at 08:26:52 AM
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I think the problem with dvd+rw will be the price of the dvd media. I'm sure it will be at least 20 bucks. What does a cd-r cost? 10 cents? A quarter? No big deal to give one away, or if the burn fails. I can't think of anything a home user would need 4.7 gigs of storage on one disk for, other than making a personal backup copy of a dvd movie, which is supposed to be legal in the U.S., but the MPAA has made illegal because of it's pathetic encryption. (I hate the MPAA!! Funny that it's legal to make a backup copy of a VHS, but not a DVD... but that's a different subject...)

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Anonymous   05-06-2001 at 02:50:56 AM
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Yes.. I read somewhere that dvd+rw media will initally cost about $20 a piece.. but give it time and prices will drop dramatically. I remember when CDR's cost $15 each and that wasnt to long ago either. Also about encrytion, isnt MPAA looking into watermarking DVD's instead.



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