Is there an advantage to having two DVD players
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: healimonster
I just purchased my first DVD burner, and have my old CD writer as a slave.
If my slave was a DVD player what are the advantages?
I know from using DVD shrink you have to save the iso to your drive and edit the stuff out you don't want, so having a second dvd player wouldn't save time.
Or would it?
Posted by: Snee
Well, maybe when copying music, running the original in the reader.
But I always got better results if I let it save to hd there too.
Only reason I'd go out of my way to make sure there were two dvd roms in my computer would be if I had some kind of running backup thing going, otherwise I'd put my money elsewhere.
But if you've got the wattage to spare and another drive just lying around, and assuming you don't need the channel for something else, you won't gain that much by taking it out either.
Posted by: Virtualbody1234
My opinion... A waste of money.
You can also remove the CD writer as slave. The DVD burner can do everything.
Posted by: lynx
You can watch a DVD on the player while burning one on the burner. ;)
Posted by: {I}{K}{E}
Cd writers can burn CD-r's faster
Posted by: Virtualbody1234
Cd writers can burn CD-r's faster
48X is fast enough. :P
Posted by: neevakee
well there is one reason, sometimes if there are multiple users on a computer that requier dvd's to exicute progrmas, then you can leave the dvd's in the drive. Also, some dvd's are not protected ie home movies and a 1:1 copy can be made then.
Posted by: BigDaddy555
48X is fast enough. :P
Ditto, just as fast....less than 3 min.
Posted by: accat13
Only reason I can think of is some dvd roms or burners have a better reading capability than others.But for the average user I would say little advantage. :whistling
Posted by: tesco
only real uses for two drives would be to leave discs in them for stuff such as games or to burn "on-the-fly"(disc to disc). But i hate doing it that way, imo it's better to just copy to the hard drive first then burn.
Posted by: TheDave
put your favourite game in the secondary, save a bit of time :unsure:
Posted by: peat moss
Ditto, just as fast....less than 3 min.
Ya to both of you. I burn my music @ 24x anyway. :D But like the idea of two drives when burning programs for friends . I burn a lot, mabye 10 a week . When the price of a second optical drive is soooooo cheap . What the heck . :D
Posted by: Adster
You can go to bed while it copy's a DVD shrink copy and wake up and its done with only 1 Drive if your in bed your not physically there to put the blank media in after its ripped