So I bought the TDK (Plextor) drive and 100 DVD+R's. I have been playing around with DVDShrink and Roxio (which came with the drive).

The fact that the burner can only write single layer makes it a big compression game to copy DVDs... I am experimenting with DVDShrink to ONLY copy the 5.1 track and the movie with as little compression as possible. For this movie, it had to use 80% or so compression. I'm afraid to see what it will look like. Not sure this will be suitable for me...

I have to admit that I'm a video snob and anything less than perfect is gonna be unacceptable for me. With 20% compression, I'm sure it will be obvious.

What a bummer. I now understand why the doul-layer burners that I saw at CES were such a big deal...

- Jon