I don't know if even one of you has a HP computer or is planning to buy one, but if you need to buy a PC for a PC prive project, like we have them in the Netherlands (You will get the PC cheap or free from your work) you might want to wait a little, cause HP will feature DVD+R/RW drives in their PC line this fall.
By incorporating DVD+R/RW drives, HP Pavilion home PCs will allow consumers to store, edit and preserve video; create and play custom music, data or photo CDs and DVDs; and store large amounts of data. Using an HP Pavilion home PC with a DVD+R/RW drive, consumers will be able to edit a movie created with a camcorder, add music and then record the movie onto a DVD. |
Users of the HP home PCs with DVD+R/RW drives -- expected to be available this fall -- will be able to play their newly created DVD discs in the majority of DVD players and DVD-ROM drives in use today due to its two-way compatibility. Additionally, custom CDs will be playable in most CD players and CD-ROM drives.
Rewritable DVD is the next big step in the evolution of home PCs, said Mark Sanchez, marketing manager, HP North America Consumer Computing Organization. DVD+R/RW-enabled HP Pavilion home PCs will enable our customers to explore a variety of digital entertainment activities, including creating, editing and storing digital video or music or organizing their entire photo collections.''
Industry analysts predict DVD recording will be a hot technology driving PC sales over the next several years. According to Dataquest, 2.13 million rewritable/recordable DVD drives will be sold by 2002. By 2005, that number will reach 14.5 million drives.(1)
Source: Yahoo.com
