Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:12:43 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] FYI: Some CD-RW drives that work with the Libretto
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They'll read DVDs and play them, but not at full 30fps speed w/o a Margi DVD-to-GO DVD PCMCIA decoder card!
'Margi'... I remember Pres writing about that. ...remember Pres? :-)
Sony products are always expensive. Got mine at tech4less.com for ~$180, and
www.ebay.com has them now and then.
$180 is a lot more reasonable than the $350+ I'd seen somewhere the other day.
> Would you know of any drives that just support burning and reading CDs with
> the same affectiveness?
See EXP drives above. But PCMCIA drives are getting rare; a USB 2.0 pcmcia
card to USB 2.0 drive will work very well, and should be cheap ($10 for the
card; $50+ for the drive).
Setting up EAC for ripping MP3s, I see where there are 3 functions that seem to be good to have in a CD-ROM drive to rip audio well if I decide to get a faster drive:
1. Accurate audio stream. 2. Capable of retrieving C2 errors 3. Cahching audio data
The HP M820E is capable of #1 and #2. I'm guessing that manufacturers don't supply this info. But it's probably out there somewhere.
Matt
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