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In simple terms - how does a DVD burner work?

I`ve noticed that they only cost about £60. But is that all you need?

1. I`ve got a CD Burner, do they work the same way? Put a disc in, computer reads it, put in blank disc and the computer writes on it. Or is there more to it?

2. Does the DVD Burner have a hard drive in it which records the DVD ?

3. Does the DVD burner strip out macrovisison?

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Simple answer:

1 Yes
2 No
3 No - But software such as DVD Shrink (Free) will allow the creation of a perfectly good backup (illegal) copy, while removing Macrovision & Region Coding.

Naturally you will also need DVD burning software as well, OEM version of Nero may come with the drive.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 18th August 2004, 17:07

"1 Yes"

Do you mean "yes it works the same as a CD burner" or "yes there`s more to it" ?

Could we go thru it in baby steps -

say I buy a DVD Burner, I put in a DVD, it reads it, then where does it store it? In my computer`s hardrive? Won`t that require a lot of memory space? How much? Tell me if I`ve gone down the wrong track here.

Then I put a blank disc in the burner and tell the computer to give the file to the burner which then burns it on the disc. Am I close?

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This item was edited on Wednesday, 18th August 2004, 21:36

It works in the much the same way as your CD writer, just with larger capacity.

Ok easy steps

you have a DVD Rom & Burner or only a Burner.

You stick in your original DVD into the Rom\Burner use DVD Shrink to make a backup to HDD, you then use Nero or Easy CD\DVD to burn to the DVD in the same way you would burn a CD.

Typical file can be 3.5 - 8GB, DVD S allows compression, the removal of surplus audio\language channels\commentries\menus\extras etc & if need be you can merely back up the entire film & just copy the Video_TS folder to the blank DVD.

DVD Shrink & Nero6 has the option to burn files straight to DVD bypassing copying to HDD first.

This item was edited on Thursday, 19th August 2004, 00:24