DVD writers?? I have a CD writer, wow, I want a DVD writer too.

the interesting thing about the humble optic DVD (and I am sure someone will pick me up on my ignorance here, please do) the story I heard is it took so long and so much money to R and D that Sony had to join forces with another company and took years to develop, now its just a boring old DVD. As Gster said, its still new to me too, (age and all that) and I still find DVDs amazing and treat them like an old LP (vinyl).

The point about open GL being relatively new, Gster hit it on the head, depends which maya supports, Ihave a Quadro 4 750XGL that will not support open GL for anything past and maya 8.