DVD Question

[Riprorin]

I don't have any open drive bays left for a DVD player.

How will the quality be if I get an external DVD player and connect it through the S-Video port on my Hauppauge WinTV USB tuner?

Any other disadvantages to doing this?

 

[alocurto]

I do not know. Why don't u just remove your CD-ROM and replace it with a dvd drive?

 

[Tonec]

You can buy an external usb enclosure for your dvd drive like this.

I have this model and it works like a normal drive in win9x but I can't seem to get it to work in win2000 so I'm selling mine.

 

[jmorrell]

An external DVD may or may not work well. DVD's rely on massive amounts of data trtansfer for smooth playback. Here's my suggestions: (1) either replace your CDROM with the DVD drive; or (2) if you're really pressed for space and neeed CDRW as well as DVD, get one of those Ricoh DVD/CDRW all-in-one units. Either way you would save some slots and you would get better performance from the DVD.