Actually, if I try to play a disc image using VLC the video really lags and skips also. And due to a crappy DVD drive it often has trouble playing burnt DVDs and my system is just a couple of years old and more than adaquate for what I need it for. So I don't think Ingo nessicarily needed to upgrade his other system specs more than he needed a DVD burner.

Ingo, it is great being able to write DVDs isn't it? I just barely got a DVD writer for my laptop a little over a month ago, I was able to free up so much hd space. Mine doesn't have LightScribe, but I really like the idea of it, the main reason I didn't worry about buying a LightScribe drive was I didn't want to pay extra for LightScribe DVD-Rs. You're lucky you can DL off of myspleen, I live on a university campus and I get my internet free through the universities wireless internet, while I can access myspleen without any trouble, bit torrents themselves are blocked.