What do you think of CD/CDR/CDW/DVD combos?

[fds]

>I've never understood this, but I have to ask. Even with todays larger hard drives. What is the point of copying DVDs to your hard drive if they take up such an enourmous amount of space?

8 GB at the most? That's not all that much.

It is a bit too much to keep a movie on your hard drive taking eigth gigabytes but for temporary storage until you watch the movie once or twice it's bearable.

I often copy movies from friends. It's a lot more convenient than borrowing the disc and having to return it later on. Better for both of us.

[DosFreak]

1. To convert .VOB to .AVI you have to copy to HD.
2. When borrowing or renting DVD's you can keep 'em longer.
3. Good for archiving. Get 2 75gb IBM drives and backup your DVD's.....Which is probly what I'm gonna do. Take out the Mpeg-2 & .AC3 stream and copy to HD.
4. Because I can.

[DataOrb]

Nuno, if you are interested GamePC recently did
a review of two DVD/CDRW combo's


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[Nuno]

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