Between the 4 desktops that my immediate family owns, we've probably been through 6 or 7 DVD burners in the last few years. Does everyone else have this kind of failure rate? Any recommendations on reasonably priced, quality drives, so that I don't have to keep replacing them? [more inside]
posted by chrisamiller on May 29, 2008 - 19 answers

An easy way to turn widescreen DVDs anamorphic? [more inside]
posted by codger on Aug 27, 2007 - 4 answers

Why is my new DVD burner behaving so erratically? [more inside]
posted by Paul KC on Oct 12, 2006 - 7 answers

Lately, my iBook G4 (I use Toast Titanium, 6 and 7) has trouble recognizing my external FireWire hard drive. Today, the external DVD burner (USB) has disappeared -- the iBook just doesn't recognize it anymore. Is my logic board f*cked, again? And if it is, does it make economic sense to fix it on such an old machine, or should I just upgrade? Thanks.
posted by matteo on Sep 18, 2006 - 5 answers

Why will my burner not recognize my DVD-Rs as 16x? [more inside]
posted by weretable and the undead chairs on Jun 8, 2006 - 3 answers

Any serious drawbacks to using an external DVD burner (as opposed to a regular, "internal" one) I should know of? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by kchristidis on Jan 26, 2005 - 11 answers

DVD+R? -R? *R? /R? I'm confused on what type of burner to pick up. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by DaShiv on Feb 4, 2004 - 10 answers