Recent content by afowler

Excellent... Thank you all for the help. :)

FWIW, I've been told that VLC and Media Player Classic can play DVD's just fine, (They have built in DVD decoders.)

Thanks for the link. Yeah, I need a PATA unit. Do you think it's a better idea to buy an OEM drive + DVD software separately? Does it work out to the same price? (I'd rather avoid rebates...) I'm not sure where to start looking. Thanks again

hello, I need a DVD drive for an XP machine that came originally with a CD-RW drive. In addition to burning DVD's I need to be able to watch DVD-Video discs. I seem to recall that Windows XP does not ship with the necessary codecs to play DVD-Video discs. Can anyone recommend a...