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> Good evening all,
> I have a customer looking for an estimate on a system
> with a DVD
> drive. Since I have no previous experience with DVD, I thought I
> would ask here.
> What are good or not good brands to use?
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> Is there anything special to know about setting it up?
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> Does it only work with specific video cards?
The first main question is: What Operating System are you planning to
install? (I'm guessing Win98SE?)
Then: what does the customer plan to use the drive for? If only data access
(like a big CD), then as far as I know it's just a big CD drive.
If, on the other hand, they want to watch movies on it, then you open a
whole kettle of fish regarding (as you mentioned) video cards, system specs,
hardware or software decoding, etc.
c|net has reviews of some leading DVD drives here:
http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/search/results/0,10238,0-1096-402-0-1,00.
html?tag=st.co.1091.dir.1096-402-0
(or http://www.cnet.com , Hardware, Storage, DVD Drives)
Knowing what they want it for it an important first step. <grin>
Hope this helps,
Philo
PCBUILD's List Owner's:
Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]>
Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>
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