>>> By the time I get around to a CD burner DVD burners may be
>>>  affordable?

RS>> The darned things take a 600MHz or better PC plus Win98 or
RS>> higher. Unless things change in newer DVD burners, I'll
RS>> probably never have one.

CA>> --8<--cut

CA>> I can't say what the minimum CPU speed would be but I do
CA>> know that my daughter was burning CDs on her 450mhz
CA>> machine and making few, if any, coasters.

RS> I'm assuming you mean DVD's?

CA> I got confused. I was addressing your lack of a CD-R burner now
CA> and it does seem my comment could be misconstrued as applying
CA> to DVD-RW which it does not. Sorry.

 Now I'm confused. I have a CDRW. I don't have a
DVD and was talking about why I may never have
one.

RS> The speed info that I got was from looking at the minimum
RS> requirements for drives that I was interested in.

CA>> Funny thing about DVD burners - to make DVD copies you
CA>> need 5 gig of free hard drive space for the ISO. I hadn't
CA>> thought about that until I was reading some DVD-RW
CA>> advertisements. For me, this is funny since I use an 850
CA>> meg hard drive right now.

RS> FWIU, it takes a long time and a lot of room to prepare a
RS> movie for the DVD. Something like 4 times as long as the
RS> movie runs. (A 15 minute movie takes 1 hour to burn). I
RS> assume that this process is also what eats up CPU cycles.

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.

 TTYL.

 Robert

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