Re: Recommendations for external DVD-ROM drive?
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.eac.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:49:15AM +0200, [email protected] [EAC] wrote: > My old LG finally called it quits so I'm in the market for a new > external DVD-ROM drive. Requirements: > > * Accurate/secure ripping with EAC (well, duh ;-)) > * Occasionally DVD burning with ImgBurn > * Occasionally DVD ripping with DVD Shrink > * Preferably tray-loading mechanism (as opposed to top-loading) > > A superficial Google Search seemed to indicate that it doesn't really > matter much nowadays: optical drives are kind of "old tech" and any > well-known brand will do. True, or does anyone here have different > experiences? DVD? Really? How about joining the 21st century and getting a Blu-ray drive? You can get a lot more data on a 25GB BD disc. BD discs are very cheap. You'll pay less for one BD disc than the number of DVDs to store the same amount of data. MB -- e-mail: [email protected] | [email protected] /~\ The ASCII [email protected] (140 char limit) \ / Ribbon Campaign Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ X Against http://vidiot.net/ / \ HTML Email "VCR was in the closet. Still works. Can't get the clock to stop blinking, though." Angela - Animal Kingdom - 7/16/19