Just lost my dvd burner...:(

My beloved Sony multi layer dvd burner died today, 11:37 pm est. She was 2.5 years old. It was a horrific death, smelt some smoke looked down and noticed she was frying in my pc. Luckily she didn't bring any others down with her, she was loved. I burned so many movies with her, made about 20 bucks one time burning some toku for a friend. She died with good memories behind.

There's an empty slot in my PC, AND in my heart.

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So anyway, time to replace that special part of me with this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106037

Has blu-ray, is it worth it though? Sure I can burn and watch blu-rays on my pc but will it be worth the price? Or should I just save 300 or so dollars and get another dvd burner?

That sucks dude. Ya, go buy another one. Buy one that is cheap enough for you to buy. 300 bucks is good

The blu-ray one will be worth it only if you plan on burning and watching blu-ray discs. Of course, if you ever get something in HD-DVD, that's a whole other story.

Or should I just save 300 or so dollars and get another dvd burner?

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$300??? Dude, you can get a good quality burner that can burn Dual-layer discs these days for $200. Just do a little shopping around online or at stores where you live that deal exclusively with computer stuff (they have much better/reasonable prices compared to the big box stores like Best Buy and Radio Shack).

Whoa $200?! I got my dual-layer dvd burner for $50.

I got mine for like $20-$30. $300 is just freaking nuts! :O_O:

Yeah.. what Dark Wolf said, well actually mine was built in the computer, but as far as price, what he said.

I thought of a blu-ray burner/player because in the future I'll be wanting to play them and possibly burn blu-rays on my pc and thought I'd upgrade ahead of time, for now I think I'll get 2 dual multi layer dvd burners since they're so cheap. Blu-ray doesn't seem that popular anyway. Burning 2 movies at once is hell of a cool thing