On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:52:12PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: >Replacing my venerable CD-ROM with a DVD drive has moved onto the to-do >list. A quick bit of googling suggests that linux compatibility isn't an >issue, and they'll mostly be SATA. Internal drives seem less advertised, >but not excessively scarce.
region free firmware is the main stumbling block for me. I lived overseas for quite a while, so I need to play region 1 as well as region 4 discs. some uk discs too. >Is it the case that some makes (e.g. LG) read scratched discs better >than others (e.g. ASUS)? The 3:1 price difference between HP and ASUS >doesn't surprise much, since that's usually the cost of the name plate. I hear it's pretty random... my 2c is that an ancient sony dvd-rom and newish matshita dvd-rw behave about the same on my scratched discs. however a stand-alone panasonic dvd player (not attached to a computer) reads them much better. <<hmmm - optimistically pulls apart dvd player and unfortunately sees nothing looking like sata - although I did find pads for serial and usb>> cheers, robin _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
