Yes, plus you can watch DVD movies. My computer screen is about the size of my TV screen, and I've watched a few movies on it. Last night my DVD player was having trouble reading a disk, so I brought the disk up to my office and watched the movie on the computer. Kind of cool ;-))
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Joseph Tainter > Shel, these are now a commodity item. I had been thinking about > replacing my CD writer with a DVD writer, but didn't know > prices. Then my son came up with one from Aopen (Taiwanese) > priced at $50. So I got one too. It is so wonderful to have DVD > if one has many gigabytes of photo files.

