homey wrote:

On 9/28/2010 5:46 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:


Spehro Pefhany wrote:


On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:59:11 -0400, the renowned "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Nico Coesel wrote:


Jim
wrote:

In keeping with my policy of staying way behind the bleeding edge of
technology, the only DVD burner I have is a stand-alone Sony unit
that
I feed video from my camcorder or DVD player.

What do you fellow lurkers recommend for an external DVD burner
that's
easy to move from PC to PC?


Avoid anything with a parallel port. USB is the way to go these days.



I've never seen a parallel port DVD burner.


CD writer, yes. Eg. HP 7200e, but that's probably more than a decade
old.



I have a couple parallel port CDROM drives, but the idea of using a
parallel port for a DVD? It would be a very slow& painful process.


And why would that be? In this case, a parallel port moves 8 bits at a
time compared with 1 for USB. The drive can cache as much as it wants
and in a flat out race, USB would always loose.

It's all about marketing.. Saving copper etc...

It's easy to convince people that a good method is not
good by simply not implementing a faster version of it and
instead, make a single wire system that uses less material and
say it's better technology..

Sheep and lambs. what a herding., that's it!