Good deal at Office Max for Digital Burner

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Barbara_Butts
Dec 17, 2003
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Office Max has a Micro Advantage DVD +/- / CD-RW burner on sale for $79.99 after rebates (originally $199). It comes with Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 ($100 program), Photosuite 5 and a blank DVD disc. Sale is on through this week. They also have memory at a good price.

Barbara

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Marshall_Ponzi
Dec 17, 2003
Sounds like a good price, but caution if you intend to burn video DVD’s to be played on home DVD players or other brands of DVD ROM players. Using it for data and CD burning is probably not an issue.

Even though DVD +R / +RW is a standard, all burners (and disks) are not created equal. I learned this researching the name brands (Philips, Sony, HP etc) last year. I do a lot of video editing w/ Adobe Premiere and had to go thru much trial and error finding the combinations that worked.

Ulitmately it works, but I don’t think the DVD format standardization is yet as tight as CD’s.

Marshall
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Shan_Ko
Dec 18, 2003
Barbara,

The Roxio Easy Creator 6 alone is $60-70 already! Sounds good to me, if it’s just for data and photo image files as Marshall said. Is it internal or USB 2 external?

Shan
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Barbara_Butts
Dec 18, 2003
Hi Shan,

This is good enough for what I do right now. It’s internal.

Here are websites for the recorder and software –

< http://www.microadvantage.net/consumer/index.php?class=2&amp ;product_id=6>

< http://www.roxio.com/adban/internal_campaigns/promotions/xma s_gift_guide/index.jhtml;jsessionid=VH3M02CTALBM3LAQAMHB3KVMCACAYIV0>

If you want the latest technology, you could buy a blue laser disc recorder for $3,000. Not me. Read about it here –

<http://news.com.com/2100-1041-995825.html>

Barbara

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