"With newer formats such as Blu-ray now available, the cost of a good DVD burner is at an all time low. This is good news since 99% of the users out there aren’t read to sink $900 into Blu-ray or HD-DVD at the moment. This is especially true when a nice unit like Lite-On’s SHW160P6S05 dual layer DVD burner can now be had for around $30.

Not familiar with Lite-On? The company started in 1995 and they were pushing out a million units a month by 1999. A lot of their production is OEM and ODM. That is, they make the drives that come in many store bought PCs or they actually design and make drives and other companies put their own names on them. In April of 2006 Lite-On bought BenQ's optical drive business, making them the second largest optical drive company world wide."