"Whether they're digital photographs created with a digital camera or scanning in photographs that are analog photos that have been made years ago on a regular analog camera…bring them into your computer and with some very simple software tools and our DVD writer, make a DVD slide show with music and transitions and so forth. Now you can send baby's first footsteps grandma, who can play it on the DVD player in her living room."
There are a number of software packages that make slide show creation simple. Pioneer drives include Ulead's Movie Factory…
"It's a very simple piece of software that allows you to create your own DVDs or even data DVDs or motion DVDs or DVD slideshows."
An internal drive sells for under a hundred dollars. External drives that can work with desktop or notebook PCs are about twice the price. In the coming year, DVD burners will start to arrive with much higher capacity…designed for high definition video. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.