Burning DVD's

[Crowdirt]

I am looking for a DVD Burner that will work with the various DVD Readers that are out there. At the moment I am considering the Pioneer DVR-S303 and the HP DVD100i. Anyone have any comments about this, what works etc. Some good Burning Software would be great too. TIA.

[Bads]

I think,

EasyDIVX can burn a DVD to a CDR

Big compression

[spark25]

Unfortunately, right now is a bad time to buy a DVD burner from my point of view. Why? For the reason that you do not have one standard. So if you pick the losing standard, you may be out of luck sooner rather than later.
I'm waiting till one standard rises to the top. They all work now-But it is hard to tell if DVD-R, DVD-RW or another standard will win out. Plus Mt.Blanc enabled burners are due out soon, so I would want the burner to support that out of the box also.
But if ya gotta buy now, ya gotta buy now. I just think there is too much flux in that market to throww a couple hundred there right now.
Just my 2c.

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[HamsterX]

I completely agree with spark25.
Better wait for standardisation. Not only this will save you lots of trouble with formats, but then mass sales will arise and price drops will follow.

[Crowdirt]

Hi Folks, it looks like some new Burners are coming out. HP has one which is already showing up in the Retail Chain. Came out in late Sept. Its a DVD-R/RW type. All that means is it will do Write once or do Rewrite disks also. Pioneer has a new unit out also. HP make good products, but their Product Support realy SUCKS. Looks like DVD-RAM is about to die. Found an interesting Website with good info. Its www.dvdrw.com (can you say DUH). I will check into the Mt. Blanc issue. My main objective at the moment is to make Hard Drive Images (Ghost) and backup stuff.

[spark25]

Use Ghost on high compression,or even fast compression, and a handfull of CD-R's. At about 25cents apiece you can clone your drive for under $2.00. use the switches *A:/Ghost.exe -split=630 -autoname* it will put cd size chunks on your drive, burn them as ISO. Or use ghost7.0 and let ghost write the cd's.

[Crowdirt]

Hi spark25, your method of using Ghost is "Exactly" what we use at work. Our standard workstation image is a "set of 5 CD's now. We make several "sets" and use them to rollout new machines or Major Updates. We tend to do something like 400-500 or more machines over a few months of time.

Hence the BIG interest in using one DVD disk.