On 26.04.14 03:32, Robin Humble wrote:
mplayer or vlc from an old hdmi laptop is a pretty good low power solution IMHO. not as low power as those players, but infinitely more flexible. also plenty of gui's if you want them, and cli for those of us who don't.
Replacing my venerable CD-ROM with a DVD drive has moved onto the to-do list. A quick bit of googling suggests that linux compatibility isn't an issue, and they'll mostly be SATA. Internal drives seem less advertised, but not excessively scarce. Is it the case that some makes (e.g. LG) read scratched discs better than others (e.g. ASUS)? The 3:1 price difference between HP and ASUS doesn't surprise much, since that's usually the cost of the name plate. Any notable experiences would be most enlightening. Erik -- ... assume that the jobs are going to China or somewhere else, and certainly there is some manufacturing going to China, but ... there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China as well. They are down by 20 million just since the 1990s. So jobs are leaving both China and the United States in manufacturing and going to robots. - http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/5285816