Quoting Electrolife Studios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What do you guys think of the new Plextor PX-504A. When you see more > leaders like this starting to pump out +R/RW drives you know the battle > is really heating up. > http://www.plextor.com/english/products/504A.html
I think it's sad that vendors put profits in front of compatbility. Especially since Sony has "cross the picket line" to shown that it's 3G DVD+RW drives are capable of -R/-RW. Sony knows it is better to put the consumer first sometimes. Understand that Sony/Philips "broke off" from the DVD Consortium in 1998 to create their own 3GB standard. That standard never made it out of Japan. They overpromised and undelivered, quite _late_ I might add, and this continued through even 2G DVD+RW. Quite sad since DVD-RW did made it out-the-door sooner. At no time did the DVD Consortium withhold specifications from Sony/Philips or otherwise "twist their arm" to go in the direction they did. As someone said to me in 1998 when this happened, "if Sony/Philips believes they can market away control away from a standards body and make more money than they could by staying within it, they will." -- Bryan J. Smith suffix-free title for your protection) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thebs.org ------------------------------------------------------- Linux is Community, Windows is Capitalism. Neither has anything to do with Freedom. Only mandates can limit Freedom. A mandate of only one choice is Communism. Communism isn't about design, it's about forced choice. _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users
