Yeah, almost all fansub trading has migrated over from cds to DVDs lately. If you're looking for a place to trade at, I highly recommend noated.com! I've been trading there for years, and my collection has gotten so big that it's overflowing 4 of those pop out cd holders that each hold 60 discs, plus two 100 disc spindles, and most of that's on data and R-1 dvds. I've had about 3 different DVD burners since the time they first started coming out, and I don't know what I'd do without it. Seeing as how I still store anime on my hard drives and anime file server and keep overflowing the 360 GB of space, it would take waaaaay too many cds to archive and back things up.
Outside of archiving your anime off to dvds, making copies of your R-1 dvds, and backing up your hard drive, there aren't too many other uses for dvd burners, mainly because full episode or movie downloads are the only files that typically are large enough to easily fill a whole dvd. This is just my experience tho...
If you need help installing the drive and aren't too far away then I could do it for you. It's really quick and easy as long as you're not like some of my friends who are paranoid of even opening their computer's case :roll: Then again, I'm a computer science major and have helped build and continuously upgrade and rebuild almost all of the 7 desktop computers in my house, so I like doing stuff like playing with new computer hardware
