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Re: DVD-ROM drives on the Amiga
« on: December 05, 2004, 11:02:49 PM »
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adolescent wrote:
Incorrect.

Edit: Maybe I misunderstand your context. It's possible to burn a DVD, but if you are refering to encoding a video for DVD then it's less possible (although I don't have experience in this so I can't comment whether it's possible or not).


The biggest issue is lack of UDMA, which is a killer. You may find that doing anything at all at the same time as burning will result in an expensive coaster. At best, you can expect huge burn times.

I still have memories of it taking over forty minutes to burn a CD on my Amiga/040 with standard IDE, and the computer was virtually frozen all through. It takes less than five on my PC or Pegasos, and everything is accessible. Wouldn't want to try burning a DVD on Amiga, except with SCSI or some form of IDE upgrade...