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DVD burning?

post #1 of 4
7/5/04 at 7:53pm
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hey

I'm considering buying a DVD burner, i have used up 100 gigs of my hard drive on movies and I've found that burning them to vcds is a slow process that often leaves me with poor quality movies, as well as severe time limitations.

i think i read somewhere that DVD can store up to 4 hours of movies, is this true?

Also which format is the best DVD-r or DVD+r, what I'm really looking to do is play my movies on a normal DVD player, do either of these formats have problems doing that?

Also I'm having trouble finding good site that ships to the UK, newegg,com (the site with the cheapest DVD burners that i managed to find) doesn't ship to the UK .

I would appreciate any help or advice that is given.
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post #2 of 4
7/5/04 at 8:17pm
ya it can store up to 4 hours but thats with the video quality kind of down. i think dvd+r's are the best i have no problem playing my burnt dvd+r's in my dvd player i can usually get about 2 hours onto one with full quality and menus and stuff like that.
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post #3 of 4
7/5/04 at 8:21pm
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cool thanx mellamojimmy
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post #4 of 4
7/9/04 at 10:03pm
since there have been many price drops i would go with a dual format burner

i have a plextor 708a it DVD-/+R/RW

its rated at 8x with +R media but will burn some 4x disks at 8x

just ordered(couple weeks ago) 100 dvd+r's for about 85 cents a piece

since my dvd player plays all types of media i usually go with whatever is the cheaper disk at the time

Ritech +R seems to be what i usually have
have had great luck with them
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