[Scott Dorsey]

In article ,
*&* wrote:
Sony W33 is a great stand-alone CD burner as is well known. Might it be
possible to convert to DVD by simply replacing the cd drive with a dvd
drive, as one would do in a computer??

No.

or, is this so simple a task wrt one's own computer since the OS is
already set up to accept both types of drive. And the W33 OS is not
similarly already set up to accept the new firmware, etc of the dvd
drive.

With your computer, you not only change out the drive, you also use
different software, and that is the big rub. Also, the computer has
huge amounts of CPU available, while the CPU in a typical embedded
system is only as powerful as it absolutely needs to be, to save cost.

Did Sony ever come out with a DVD version of the W33?? My searches only
come up with the W66 but that is still a CD burner with the addition of
a keyboard input to enter cd info. TIA, JB

I don't know, but if they did, it would be from a different division.
Sony is a lot of companies that don't talk to one another.
--scott

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