T23 CDRW/DVD

[jronald]

OK
With a big help from RealBlackStuff and the proper rails
I have jumped for a 4X to 24X CDRW with DVD onboard
I picked this up on sale for $21.99
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid ... DO&cat=CDR
Slapped the above mentioned rails on it.
Nibbled the right corner with this
http://www.directron.com/nibbletool.html
Slid it in place, XP found it immediately and I started burning.
It could not have been easier!
Fleabay
http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZt2 ... R40QQ_mdoZ
Cut my price in half!

Ron

[RealBlackStuff]

That nibbler is a really nifty little tool! So far I've been using my Dremel to cut/modify bezels, but this may be a lot faster!

[jronald]

The plastic is at the outer limits of what will fit in the groove, but is very soft and cuts quite easily. Alot less dusty too!

Ron

[fefrie]

With the way that technology is moving these days, I don't even fret about cd's anymore. I hardly burn them as I feel guilty about the amount of plastic they make for only 600mb. I have a small spindle of abou 20 cdr's that I think will sit around my house for years.

The same goes with DVDr's. I just got a 250GB external portable usb hard drive, the kind that doesn't need a powered source. Now I don't like burning dvd's to add to my dvd collection. I've already got 200 some odd movies thankfully sitting in a space efficient cd binder.

I am waiting for the day when I can plug in my externald DVD drive into my dvd player or hd tv and play iso files or video_ts files directly from the hard drive. At this point if I want to watch a movie on my tv, I just burn it onto a dvdrw and watch it, then erase it and burn another movie.

One time use media is so early 2000's, and really bad for the environment.