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Discussion in 'DVDR' started by stayhand, Sep 16, 2004.

  1. stayhand

    stayhand Member

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    I am sure you all have heard this queston before, but Is there anyway to burn to a dvd-r with a cd-rw drive? Is there like a codec or anything I can download for free? Does anyone know where I can get a cheap dvd-rw drive?
     
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    Navig8r Regular member

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    check
    www.tigerdirect.com

    or

    www.supermediastore.com (you can also find great prices
    on DVD-r media)

    hope this helps
     
  3. Nephilim

    Nephilim Moderator Staff Member

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    Aside from an act of God there's no way you're burning a DVD in a CDRW drive :)
     
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    Navig8r Regular member

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    let there be light....lmao

    very true Nephilim....hit that one right on the nose

    my above statements were for DVD burners and DVD media
     
  5. stayhand

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    I don't trust refurbs myself but the TDK's are decent drives :)
     
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    Go to www.newegg.com and look at the NEC their cheap and work as good as the over rated sony and the like drives
     
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    tigerdirect.com is the correct track i would follow, have you considered trying to use vcd as an option. usually needs 2 discs and the quality is like playing a vcr tape on the slowest setting but it can be done. i used to do that all the time the largest obsticle was splitting the file to be burned on more than one cd-r. dub-dvd was my solution. they used to have a free trial version but no longer. hit me back if you want to go down that road and i will go into more of what can and can not be done.

    at the end of the day you can burn dvd video onto cd-r media but there are sacrifices in quality that are plenty. dvdxcopy also does a nice brainless job of doing the same thing but some times you need up to 5-6 discs which is just too much pain.
     

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