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DVD drive recommendation
Looking for a DVD burner, preferably internal, that will play any of my discs.
To digress a moment, I had a Toshiba DVD recorder that I loved; it of course played commercial discs and any discs it recorded , it also played any discs recorded on the several recorders i had prior to it, it played discs I had dubbed on my computers, it even played discs that had not been finalized ...it played any DVD I stuck in it. Over a nine year span it probably recorded around 700 discs and played thousands, til it was just completely worn out. Can still find these, used, on the market for around $150 ...but how used are they? a few hours? or near death?
So I'm looking for a decent internal drive for my Win7 system that will play any of this twenty year collection of discs (I'll forego the convenience of having a remote just to be able to view these discs again). Online reviews are useless here, only concerned with compatibility with different types of discs and OS and with speed.