Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom.reviews Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!tcsi.tcs.com!uunet!electriciti!slip34.electriciti.com!apeters From: apeters@powergrid.electriciti.com (Adam Petrovsky) Subject: CDROM Drives Sender: usenet@electriciti.com (News User) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 23:00:02 GMT Distribution: Local Lines: 7 Nntp-Posting-Host: slip34.electriciti.com Organization: San Diego Wild Animal Park X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Hello. I work at a computer hardware store and have sold many CDROM players. Here's the bottom line. Buy a Double Speed Drive. Panasonic, Sony, Mitsumi all make excellent lower end drives. NEC, Toshiba make higher end units and you really don't get too much more for your money. The average difference of seek time between an old single speed drive to the new fancy triple speed drives is about 6 seconds. I think we can all live with that. You'll find double speed drives run live motion video just fine. Good Luck