

Unless you're planning on producing professional videos, the DVD100i's software bundle should take care of all of your video-capture and disc-creation needs. At least the company doesn't try to whitewash the compatibility issue-it lists all the current drives and players that can read DVD+RW media on its Web site. However, the DVD100i won't be able to write to DVD+R without a firmware upgrade, which HP doesn't plan on providing. The DVD+RW developers group will be introducing a high-reflectivity DVD+R media that should be readable by more drives and players. This makes sharing data or movies with friends via DVD+RW potentially problematic.
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The media has low reflectivity thus, it's not nearly as compatible with legacy DVD-ROM drives and DVD movie players as the high-reflectivity DVD-R media supported by the SuperDrive and DVD-RAM/R drives.

The trouble with DVD+RW is compatibility. Additional DVD+RW media is available for a reasonable $10 to $16 a pop. An IDE cord, a drive-to-sound-card cable, and a single DVD+RW disc also come with the drive. The multilingual installation guide is barely enough to get you started, but there's a setup video on the software CD, and the software installation itself is painless. The DVD100i's out-of-box experience seems better suited to savvier users than novices.

It also functions as a 12X/10X/32X CD-R/RW drive and an 8X DVD-ROM. This jack-of-all-trades DVD+RW HP drive handily outperforms its rivals, such as QPS's DVD burner (DVD-RAM/R) and Pioneer's DVR-A03 (a.k.a. If speed were the only measure, Hewlett Packard's DVD-Writer DVD100i would have a clear lead among the emerging DVD-storage technologies: DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW. If speed were the only measure, Hewlett Packard's DVD-Writer DVD100i would have a clear lead among the : DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW.
