[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Guess I ought to go down to the local Gateway Center and take a look!

[bonesmccoy]

Dude...Hollywood is dead. With the DVD rippers and new MediaCenterPC's, you can pop out a secondary CD drive and insert a DVD drive. Reinitialize and begin ripping "home movies" on DVD.

Cool isn't it?

You just have to make sure your family and friends have DVD players on their TV's that read DVD-RAM DVD's.

There are several different DVD standards.

Freepers who are into home production (like that David Dennis dude) should get into MediaCenter PC's from Gateway, HP, or Alienware.

Alienware looks a little souped up for need. After all, NTSC TV frames are not as sophisticated as rendering 3-D graphics on the fly with thousands of polygons per sec.