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This page reads suspiciously like a marketing document for DLA. Pronouns are overly friendly and encouraging ("DLA gives us the ability", "Using Windows Explorer you can drag & drop"), and the style in general seems designed to get people excited about DLA.

More seriously, the article has nothing bad to say about the product. I don't know much about this product, but given the compatibility problems that something like this could create, it seems unlikely that there are *no* disadvantages, limitations, or competitors to this apparently controversy-free product.

I may be wrong, but I think somebody who knows more about this than me should have a look at the article to make sure it's not pure shill.

Fang2415 23:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)fang2415[reply]

Negative Statements

Hi!

Yes, the article is very simple and doesn't contain any negative statements about DLA.
I own an IBM Thinkpad with pre-installed DLA (an OEM version for IBM) which does pretty much that what is stated in the article right now.
Negative: yes, there are some things that are not so good:

On the Sonic Solutions webpage there is no information about which version is the latest release.
It is only available in english language (as far as I could find out - please correct me if I'm wrong).
I think that most users use it only because they got it with their hardware (either it was pre-installed or it came with the optical recording device). If they had to buy it, users would probably buy something else (like Nero InCD) - but all that is only my personal opinion, I wouldn't write something like that in an article of wikipedia.
I occasionally read something about incompatibility with other Packet Writing software. So it is possible that DLA-recorded disks that use UDF (like DVD-RAM media) cannot be read/changed/written to on other operating systems or with other Packet Writing software.
Such a statement would have to be verified before it would go into an article!
I personally once had the problem that I couldn't read an UDF formated media that was filled with Windows .exe files (Service Packs, Freeware and such things) with Linux (Kernel 2.6.10+, Gentoo 2006.0) in my Windows XP SP2 + DLA 5.2 system. I rarely have to do such things because I normally use Linux. Windows is just there because it was pre-installed.

So there ARE some negative things about DLA, but none of them are acknoledged and therefore ready to go into this article. I think, for the mean time, this article should stay like it is.

Greetings, Andreas Y2kbugDE 10:50, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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+== Negative Statements ==
+Hi!
+Yes, the article is very simple and doesn't contain any negative statements about DLA. <br /> I own an IBM Thinkpad with pre-installed DLA (an OEM version for IBM) which does pretty much that what is stated in the article right now. <br /> Negative: yes, there are some things that are not so good:
+* On the Sonic Solutions webpage there is no information about which version is the latest release.
+* It is only available in english language (as far as I could find out - please correct me if I'm wrong).
+* I think that most users use it only because they got it with their hardware (either it was pre-installed or it came with the optical recording device). If they had to buy it, users would probably buy something else (like Nero InCD) - but all that is only my personal opinion, I wouldn't write something like that in an article of wikipedia.
+* I occasionally read something about incompatibility with other Packet Writing software. So it is possible that DLA-recorded disks that use UDF (like DVD-RAM media) cannot be read/changed/written to on other operating systems or with other Packet Writing software. <br /> ''Such a statement would have to be verified before it would go into an article!'' <br /> I personally once had the problem that I couldn't read an UDF formated media that was filled with Windows .exe files (Service Packs, Freeware and such things) with Linux (Kernel 2.6.10+, Gentoo 2006.0) in my Windows XP SP2 + DLA 5.2 system. I rarely have to do such things because I normally use Linux. Windows is just there because it was pre-installed.
+So there ARE some negative things about DLA, but none of them are acknoledged and therefore ready to go into this article. I think, for the mean time, this article should stay like it is.
+Greetings, Andreas [[User:Y2kbugDE|Y2kbugDE]] 10:50, 8 October 2006 (UTC)