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| Thread ID: 138961 | 2015-02-16 06:06:00 | DVDR Disc ????? | AppleFan (17097) | PC World Chat |
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| 1394481 | 2015-02-16 06:06:00 | Im thinking of buying DVDR Disc to save new movies and watch it on my tv . I dont understand what this really means , if i describe what i think it says i can only one time and view it many times but i load other movie on same disc second time . Please read this ' These one-time record discs offer 4 . 7GB or 120 minutes of storage capacity, ideal for recording home movies and video clips' . So can anyone tell me in simple words what this really means and another thing it says 4 . 5gb or 120 mins of storage . What does both mean " 4 . 5gb or 120 mins " . Thanks |
AppleFan (17097) | ||
| 1394482 | 2015-02-16 06:14:00 | 120 mins of standard quality DVD video which is the basically the same as 4.5GB. In order to save to DVD and watch on your TV you still need some kind of player and it has to support whatever format the Video is in. Much easier these days to use something that will play from a USB flash drive which you can keep re-using than muck about with optical discs. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1394483 | 2015-02-16 06:27:00 | In "simple" terms-- the record once basically means once you record data to the disc it cant be erased or deleted, its there for good. There is a difference between Finalizing a disc and Not Finalizing. Lets say you burn 1GB of data to the disc and Finalize it, then thats it, you cant add any more data to it, BUT if you Dont Finalize then you can add more at a later time until the Disc is full. Just to throw a spanner in the works about that, depending on what you are burning the Disc has to be finalized, other times it doesnt. The difference between time 120 Minutes and Storage size, can be a bit more complicated. Take a Movie like you would buy/hire on a Retail DVD, the DVD will only hold 1 movie because its using the whole disc, BUT if you ripped a couple of DVD's to another format, lets say 700MB each, then you can burn more than one on the blank DVD. Same with a Music CD, a CD will hold roughly 15-20 tracks and will be in CDA format and has to be finalized, BUT Rip to a compressed format and you may get 50-60+ tracks on the one CD, and doesn't need to be finalized If you have a DVD movie in its standard format with two folders ( VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS) the Disc must be finalized, BUT if you have ripped some movies to a smaller format, you can add as many as the disc will hold and doesn't need to be finalized. THEN theres the software ---- some writing software is harder to use than others. Some for example will finalize a CD/DVD when one file is burnt, which means you can't add any more to that disc, where as other software you have to tell it to finalize. Unless burning a DVD movie, then it may auto Finalize. Personally I always work from size, not minutes, as above you may have 20 Music tracks that play for 120 Minutes, but only take 100 MB in compressed size, so on a CD you can add more than 120 minutes of music. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1394484 | 2015-02-16 07:10:00 | Sounds a bit old school now,what you want is a Media player so you can plug in either a USB stick or Hard Drive with your files on something like a WDTV Live or Asus O play (which I had),must be plenty of newer tech like this If you have a later model LCD most except files on a USB stick or Hard Drive which I have now |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1394485 | 2015-02-16 07:23:00 | WDTV Live for sure. Heck even the AC Ryan Play!On media players will do! Also, when formatted, the DVD will come to 4.38GB, not 4.7. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1394486 | 2015-02-16 19:50:00 | If you're going to buy blank disks make sure you buy a decent brand not the cheapest you can find. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1394487 | 2015-02-16 20:26:00 | Indeed, or specifically one your DVD Burner mentions it's good at writing too. Different medias have different qualities. I had a drive back in the day that wrote flawlessly to the el-cheapo media you'd buy from QMB Computers. Got a more expensive drive, tried writing to that same media, it'd write but nothing could ever read it, not even the burner itself :p |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1394488 | 2015-02-16 20:31:00 | I used to write a lot of disks, these days I find I'm throwing out a lot of my old disks as no longer any use to me. I have a couple spindles of blank disks dating back years from when I bought them. I recommend Verbatim or Mitsubishi disks myself, They have been consistently in the top few brands for years of reviews and are easily available. Taiyo Yuden are probably even better but harder to find. Really though it's not worth it, either a media player as mentioned above or a smart TV or a Blu-ray player with USB support will provide a much more convenient experience and work out cheaper fairly quickly if you use it very often. The media playback capabilities of these devices has gotten very good over the last few years and most will play all the common file formats reliably. A DVD burner is around $40-60 NZ, Blank single layer DVDR disks cost $1-$2 each depending on brand and quantity. A cheap media player and a flash drive would cost not much more than that initial and be re-usable for 100's of movies. Also if you want to play movies on a DVD player you can end up having to convert them and may need to author DVD video disks. This can be problematic and time consuming. |
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