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To: thecow who wrote (13385)	11/25/2000 2:43:56 AM
From: Doug Soon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110642

Hi PMS, I just got a Toshiba 2800DVD laptop. I put in a couple of DVD movies, but there is jitter on video and warbling audio. Is this typical or do I have a faulty drive? DS

To: thecow who wrote (13385)	11/25/2000 9:41:04 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110642

DVD stuff ... I'm glad I'm not the only one. When I ordered my machine a year or two ago, I put my finger into the wind and it seemed that DVD would replace CD. I didn't want to be 'orphaned', so I took the bait and shelled out for the upgrade. In hindsight, few would be foolish enough to produce any products on DVD and abandon millions of potential customers using machines with CDs. Cheers, PW. P.S. I have plenty of 5" floppy disks a few 8", and Beta VCR tapes, a few reels of audio tape, some 8-track cartridges, and a music library on vinyl -- and nothing that takes this stuff. I'll probably add a DVD drive to the list of silly stuff I bought -- in a few years. My hula-hoop, brittle from storage from the 1950s, shattered when I accidentally drove over it. (We were using it to mark the lawn for some landscaping and carelessly left it on the garage floor.) Sooo. Everyone, DON'T TAKE MY ADVICE TOO SERIOUSLY. I have a profound knack for spotting what will turn out to be embarrassing artifacts. P.P.S. WARNING!!! I'm seriously thinking of buying a CD burner. With my track record, these devices will be obsolete, CDs unavailable, and some new technology pushing CDs out of the marketplace within a year or two at the most.