Digital BW, The Print

Mitch-

I researched this about 3 months ago and wound up buying a Pioneer 
A03 DVD burner and a firewire card. Burner was about $450, card about 
$100 and I burn 4 gigs in about 25 minutes with it.

The first thing you have to do (I don't know what format the LaCie 
is) is make a decision on what format you believe will 
be "STANDARD"...yes, we have the Betamax/VHS syndrome again.

I went for the vanilla DVD-R which is far and away the most generic 
and used today. HP and some others are trying to force a new standard 
into the market... They may or may not make it. My hunch is that 
whatever the standard evolves to, the DVD-R will be readable with 
backwards compatibility.

I've been quite happy with mine...so far only made 2 coasters in 3 
months and lots of burning (both user error <g>).

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Mitch Alland <malland@m...> 
wrote:
> As I am having trouble with my current SCSI interface CD burner, I 
have to decide whether to get an new FW-CD burner or a DVD burner. As 
my Photoshop files are usually about 240MB, perhaps that is the way 
to go.
> 
> I know of two DVD burners, the LaCie DVD-RW drive which costs $499 
and the LaCie DVD DVD-R Second Generation drive which seems to be 
faster but whose costs I don't know.
> 
> What are your recommendations as to:
> 
> 1. whether to go to a DVD burner, and
> 2. which DVD burner to get?
> 
> --Mitch