[mythtvnz] Quiet DVD drives?

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> I am looking at what I would need for a MythTV box for my mother.  She
> is a complete technophobe and can be guaranteed to find a way of
> making any piece of technology do something strange.  She does have
> some DVDs that she watches, including opera, so any box for her would
> need a DVD drive.  But all the modern ones seem to be very high speed
> and *extremely* loud, so that they grossly interfere with hearing a
> program if they are in the same room.  The obvious solution to that is
> what I do - rip the DVD and play it from hard disk.  But my mother is
> very unlikely to be able to do that.  So, I was wondering if anyone
> out there had run across a quiet DVD drive recently?

I have seen info on the -users mailing list about how to limit the
speed of the drive, which quietens it considerably.