Do you have a DVD drive in your computer?

[Soquili]

My work desktop computer has an internal CD-ROM and an external DVD-RW/R drive. Work laptop has a CD-RW/R/DVD-ROM drive.

One home computer has DVD-ROM and a DVD-RW/R drive. I install software from either of those.

Another home computer has CD-ROM and a CD-RW/R drive.

My Linux computer at home has a CD/DVD-ROM drive.

I read an article about a month ago about DVD and Blu-Ray where the topic was how soon DVD would be obsolete. The author believes that DVD will still be available for the next 5 to 10 years.

I remember that after DVD became available the LaserDisc was obsolete within a couple of years.

[-=Drifter=-]

I have cd player and dvd writer/reader/cd-writer combo in my tower. I use the DVD writer to burn tv shows onto what I receive on my computer via WinTV-PVR and also use that writer to write backups and erase.
What's all this talk about getting rid of dvds? What will replace them?

[AntonyF]

Well, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.

But that's one topic point I didn't put... who do you think will win the format war? Have Sony not learnt their lesson after Betamax?

[Soquili]

I liked betamax, but VHS won

Movies on the Blu-Ray format are already available, but I haven't seen many on HD-DVD.

From reading the specs on both, I believe that Blu-Ray will support higher capacity for recording and video quality. Until I see them side by side, I wouldn't want to bet on a winning format at this time.

[pauland]

I think for us the PS3 will decide which format we follow..

[a4hire]

I have a DVD/RW drive in the laptop at work. And I have an external ZIP drive plugged into the docking station.
At home I just have a CD and a CD RW. The PC at home also has an internal SCSI zip drive.
I have never watched a movie on a computer. But think if I traveled a lot it would be nice to able to watch movies on the laptop.

[Intbel]

Yup. Desktop & laptop.
I don't have a video player or a TV so the DVD is most useful.

[BlueFlare]

I liked betamax, but VHS won

I liked Video 2000 which was far superior than those two formats, but like so often it was proper marketing that made the difference.

[pauland]

I liked Video 2000 which was far superior than those two formats, but like so often it was proper marketing that made the difference.

I like Xara Extreme which is far superior ..

[atarian]

Hi all

Yes well things move one one dont they.

Well dvd drives would be a sort of predictable as there are a lot fo dvd drives available.

Saying that most of my machines have a dvd reader in, except 2 which have cd's.

Ther are several differant dvd drives - dvd writers, they then come in several flavours (besides the obvious speed) there are single layers, dual and quad!

Although i have a quad drive (cost less than my dual one) have yet to so these disks on the marker ( nice one sony)!

Going back to an early post, 'betamax': this was far superior that vhs in more ways than one, just proves the popularity doesnt always mean its better.

I think Sony do well, they brought to us the humble 3.5" floppy drive (amongst other things) and now their new inovation they have already slapped on selected models in their vaio lappy range.

What will happen is suppose only time will tell. Needless to say it looks like another upgrade session will be coming soon.

DVD's have advantages and disadvantages! i prefer to back up to cd (which the manufacturers prefer us to ditch for dvd). The reason is simple, i have lost software/data on both cd and dvd, cd not very often - dvd more than i wish for. With dvd you can lose a hell of a lot more than on cd

Even when i preach and practice 'not putting all my eggs in one basket' i still lost my 6 year collection of top notch screensavers and my entire back up of all the software that i've paid for and downloaded - and i cant remember them all on DVD. where as i've lost 2 cd's that were well outdated.