-> CA> I have the feeling that the existing DVD formats were designed
-> CA> with copyright protection as priority #1 rather than efficiency
-> CA> or ease of use? In time I'm am confident there will be formats
-> CA> released intended for the rest of us who have no delusions of
-> CA> building a musical nor movie empire based on DVDs. ;-)

->  I'm assuming that it's the MPEG2 compression
-> that takes up all the time and resources.

 That is part of it. Moslty as it concerns the CPU power Required. but
also rembember that DVD burn speeds are still very slow compaired to CD
burn speeds nowdays. 

But SCSI CD drives are disapperaing fast. I think Plextor and HP both
have dropped their SCSI CD-RW drives. Although in this day of 2.7 GIG
plus CPU's I guess it dosne't make much difference.
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