question about burner

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  1. bojan087

    bojan087 Regular member

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    this may not be the right place to post this and im very sorry, but i got all the help i needed here before, im getting thie dvd burner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827101002 , and i was wondering if this burner can also read dvd's / cd's or is it just made to burn dvd's / cd's ? thanx guys
     
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    All DVD burners can read CD/DVDs. Only exception would be DVD-RAM format, not all DVD drives support it.
     
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    so it should be able to read dvd's, thanx, and my other question would be would i be able to watch the burned dvd's on a regular dvd player connected to my television or would i only be able to watch it on a computer? thanx for the really fast reply
     
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    It all depends on what your are burning and what software you are using to burn.
     
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    what would be a good software to burn the movies onto the cd?
     
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    Are you talking about home made movies? Roxio EMC 8 or N ero Ultra 7 are both good for editing and burning your home movies to DVD.

    Post editied, because this site shows too much favoritism. :)
     
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    Go with that if you want, I thought I might add I had a disgusting experience with an acer/benq CDRW drive a few years back, where I bought one that broke within a month and the replacement broke within a week. Generally I've found the quality of most stuff made by Daxon (acer and benq are the same company, tends to suggest bad news) to be shocking, personally, but don't let that put you off.

    LG, Pioneer and Plextor are the big names for DVD writers that can do pretty much everything without breaking on you. :D
     
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    what about movies thats been downloaded from the web?
     
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    Most software will recognise DivX/XviD AVi files from the net. Of course you can just stick those straight onto a CD-R as data if you have a divx dvd player, but if not they'll want converting, which takes a little while to do, depending on your processor. I have a basic trial of cyberlink powerproducer, and it works, but it's not at all professional. Still, can't grumble when it was free with a DVD Writer (Mine is in my sig)
     
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