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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (21588)	2/5/2002 4:36:40 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

A friend of mine recently bent my ear and raved about the new HP DVD drive. Maybe your friend has gotten good results with the HP DVD 100i rewriter DVD drive but I see comments that others have had trouble with interchangeability with the DVD+RW disks the HP DVD 100i produces. They couldn't get other DVD drives to read the DVD+RW disks the HP DVD 100i produces. Even when using readers on the approve DVD+RW list. Whereas I see others have had good results with respect to interchangeability with the Pioneer DVR-A0-3 rewriter DVD drive when using DVD-RW media. Source of comments CNET user reviews. Question, I see stores sell 3 different types of DVD rewrite media, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, and DVD-RW. What is the difference between the three different types? Or better yet does anybody have a link to a web site that explains the difference?

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (21588)	2/7/2002 11:29:20 PM
From: rll	Respond to of 60323

Craig, I use the Toshiba DVD-RAM drive which will write to the 4.7GB/side DVD-RAM media. This drive was available over a year ago when I bought it and have since added another DVD-RAM drive to a second computer. I believe the HP DVD drive is a R/W not RAM. These are two competing techs with some big players on each side. The R/W drives weren't available when I needed it, so I didn't get the chance to really compare the two. From the little I've read about the R/W drive, I think it may be a better choice today but I haven't really researched it. The DVD-RAM is cheaper and does my data backup jobs with ease. Hope this helps. rll