Hewlett Packard DVD300i 4x2.4x8 Internal IDE DVD+RW Drive

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• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.8 x 1.7 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008DFUF
• Item model number: DVD300I
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,503 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 29, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Got 15 minutes? Write a DVD in a flash with the HP DVD writer dvd300i. Its storage capacity is impressive, too: preserve up to 4.7 GB worth of photos, video, and graphics.

• Write DVDs twice as fast as with earlier technology
• Edit, share, and preserve video and digital photos
• Back up information on DVDs and CDs
• Use one convenient software program, ArcSoft ShowBiz DVD, to capture, author, and edit material
• Edit a DVD without rewriting the entire disk
• Download video to portable devices for transporting and giving presentations
• Reliably back up, protect, and restore files or your entire hard drive
• Watch DVD movies from the convenience of your own computer
• Create a photo slide show or album to view on your PC or TV with HP memories disc creator
• Drag and drop files to CD or DVD from Windows Explorer, or save directly from any application
• Preserve material longer: 50–100 years instead of the 7–10 years provided by VHS tapes store up to 133 minutes of high-quality video and up to three hours of VHS-quality video on each high-capacity (4.7 GB) DVD+RW media disc

Basic warranty
One-year limited hardware warranty

Product Description
HP's DVD writer dvd300i stores up to 4.7 Gbytes of data, video, photos, and music on DVD+RW or DVD+R disks. DVD+R disks offer maximum compatibility with DVD-ROM drives and DVD players. HP's DVD writer dvd300i is ideal for home PC users willing to create their original video DVDs and view them on most DVD players and DVD-ROM drives; business PC users requiring large amounts of removable storage; business communicators who incorporate video into presentations, training and sales tools. This versatile drive reads and writes DVDs and CDs and includes buffer under-run protection. Using the PC's existing video capture capabilities, transfer precious video memories from a camcorder or VCR to long-lasting DVD disks. Quickly store, backup and transport large data files on DVD or CD. Create original DVDs using DVD+RW rewritable and DVD+R write-once disks and view them using most DVD players and DVD-ROM drives. Record up to three hours of video, or store thousands of original photos, hundreds of MP3 music files and data files - up to 4.7 GB - on one DVD+RW or DVD+R disk. Make original DVDs and CDs using this DVD+RW and CD-RW drive.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good DVD burner, June 1, 2003

By	Experienced burner (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

The setup was easy &took me about 2 minutes. The software installation was easy too. Veritas's RecordNow, SimpleBackup, DLA &ArcSoft's ShowBiz DVD authoring softwares are included.

I cannot install the DLA because I already has Roxio's Easy CD Creastor 5.3 installed. From reading others' reviews about HP DVD200 (predecessor of this DVD300), there seemed to be many problem about with DLA. I guess HP fixed that. The installation would not allow to install another one of DLA when it detected there was one already installed. But that is no problem with me as I use Roxio's DLA. DLA allows one to use the drive like a harddrive. One can click/drag from Explorer or save from applications the files to the drive. (too bad Microsoft does not include this as part of the OS, so that there would not be so many this DLA conflicts out there)

Veritas RecordNow is probably the best software included, I am so impressed with it now I use it exclusive, drop my old favorite Roxio Easy CD Creator.

So far I am very happy with this burner, no coaster burning with Memorex +R or +RW discs. I hear Ritek, HP (of course) &Verbatim discs work fine with this burner too. I did not bother try other discs as I can get Memorex disc for $2 and $3 respectively.

Get this burner!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the 200i, May 23, 2003

By	Bill Barnard (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

Hewlett Packard's 300i improves on the 200i with faster write times and better software. The ArcSoft ShowBiz DVD software integrates the functions performed by a couple of software applications that shipped with the 200i resulting in a single software application for capturing and editing video and producing a DVD.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars doesn't work with any other software, December 15, 2003

By	charles ernst "chas" (plainfield, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Nero, Gear, Deepburner or Roxio....

none of them work with this drive. The included software is terrible. I get a "There is a firmware update on the net for this drive, connect now?" Message a few minutes after booting up the drive. There are no firmware updates for this drive. The great thing is when it checks the drive it blows up any burn you are in the middle of and kills a disk. Tech support never got back to me.

I am never going to by an HP burner ever again, on the topic of HP drives, all of our HP DVD200 drives at work failed, were replaced under warranty and then failed again out of warranty.