My station bought 2 DVD writers, both Pioneer brand, and I believe the cost was around $700/per. Thus far, we have only encoded video for playback in DVD format. I haven't acutally burned a data disk. The endcoded video played back just fine on several different DVD players. The media runs about $25/per disk. I'll first try to copy this Mandrake 8.1 DVD just as a backup for my original, as it's bootable and contains all three download disks plus many extras. As to the computer case, you were the first to respond. That makes it yours, unless you would like to defer to Doug Hanson. On Sunday 18 November 2001 12:48 am, you wrote: > How much are DVD-Rs nowadays? a while back i read somewhere that the > standards were not set yet, will copies work with all PC DVD readers? > > -munir _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com