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September's bet price for a DVD was the Lite-On LDW-401S: a +RW burner for a piffling £97.18. Today, however, the cheapest we found was for £61.71. Better still it's a +/- burner too. The NEC ND-1300A DVD+/-RW can be bought from ebuyer.

The only thing it hasn't got

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going for it is speed. So if you've got to have 8x rather than 4x write performance then you'll need one of the newer models.

The NEC ND-2500 DVD+/-RW can write at 8x to both +R and -R discs and costs £79.62 from Scan.co.uk.

If you don't fancy fiddling about under the bonnet to fit an internal drive, then a 4x external drive worth considering might be the Lite-On LDW-411SX from Amazon for £119.99.

An 8x (writing to +R discs) version, the Lite-On LDW-851SX-02C, is available from ITWebBuy for £127.32.

The Firewire-ready Freecom FX-50 costs a bit more, at £184.87 from dabs.com.