This story reminds me of the history of Palindrome Server Backup!
Tracy

>Greg;
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>Interesting how some products become the "standards". I do like the HP9100 and so does my brother. I remember when a group of developers who are also good friends decided to purchase Syquest drives for backup devices. We looked at Zip also. Syquest was our choice and they were local. Then Iomega bought them and Syquest was no more. My Syquest drive still works great but I did buy a Zip drive also. :)
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>I took a look at many DVD burners over the weekend as well as media. What a price range! Even the media prices were all over the place. Even if your Pioneer takes the route of my Syquest, it is worth having. Backup - backup - backup. Just the word makes me feel good! :)
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>Tom
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>>I received the Pioneer as a Christmas present from my brother-in-law......
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>>While the standard has not yet been decided.....It makes a great back-up device. That's all I use it for.
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>>I'll stick with my HP9100 CR-RW/CD-R burner for awhile yet.......
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>>>>New categories in the Chatter forum... good move.
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>>>>Anyways, who's got a DVD Burner? Whats the skinny on those? Affordable? Useable? Reliable? Who makes the best, and whats the best value?
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>>>>I'm thinking about getting one just for back up purposes, is that realistic?
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>>>Mike;
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>>>Without question this looks interesting. I am looking at this as an electronics engineer so here is my take.
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>>>I think this technology is a bit new to know much about it. As an example check out the specs of the Pioneer DVR A03 DVD-R/W Internal EIDE
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>>>http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1095-404-6145334.html?tag=st.sh.7375949-311-6145334.dir.productinfo
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>>>and compare it to the IBM DVD-RAM / DVD-R 24x/6x/2x Internal EIDE
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>>>http://shopper.cnet.com/shopping/resellers/0-7375949-311-7344381-0.html?tag=st.sh.7375949.lst.ml_7344381
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>>>What is immediately evident is the lack of standardization in format types and data capacity. This deserves looking into as it might be another Beta vs JVC type fiasco and the consumer gets burnt in the end. Remember even though Sony Beta was better technically, JVC won the battle.
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>>>I like new things and often get in on the beginning of things like this but this time I am going to wait a bit longer before I make a decision. Perhaps some of the consumer reports people have done a review?
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>>>Tom