PC World has done a review of several DVD burners. While it doesn't contain a lot of in-depth technical detail, it does cover numerous models.
"Good-bye, CD-RW. Hello, rewritable DVD. The latest DVD burners are faster and can hold more data than your CD-RW drive. And as sure as someone getting whacked on The Sopranos, the prices of these drives will keep falling. For as little as $250, you can now own a rewritable DVD drive that will turn your movies, photos, and TV recordings into high-quality DVD video playable in most living-room DVD players.
But there are other good reasons -- besides being able to burn movies -- for you to plunk down your money on a new DVD burner. One of the most compelling is the ability to create reliable backups painlessly. A rewritable DVD drive lets you store gigabytes of data on a single disc, so backups will take only a handful of DVDs. Forget the swap-a-disc-every-5-minutes routine of CD-RW drives; the speed and convenience of rewritable DVD will transform your backup habits for the better."
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