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New DVD Writer Roundup @ Tom's Hardware Guide

Postby Ian on Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:10 am

Testing methodologies like this make PC Magazine look good:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/30/ ... index.html

No mention of what media was used and their CD/DVD read tests are nothing more than some seek times. wtf?
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Postby Ian on Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:39 pm

Ugh.. and it got Slashdotted..

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl ... 3&from=rss
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:19 pm

Let's try to look on the bright side...

At least they show the burn times, they COULD have simply stated the burn process completed successfully, and that all drives are equal now :wink:
Punch Cards -> Paper Tape -> Tape Drive -> 8" Floppy Diskette -> 5 1/4" Floppy Diskette -> 3 1/2" "Flippy" Diskette -> CD-R -> DVD±R -> BD-R

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