External DVD writer & Disc's

Ally

I need to get one ASAP and I am not sure what I need to be looking at!!

Can any DVD discs work on any DVD writer?

What I need is a good quality writer that I can get home movies onto - Is it possible to get 3 hours onto one disc? (it was a long party:rolleyes: ) I wil probably need the max storage on a disc. I need to get the writer, discs, copy the movies and post them by next week so they get to family in time for Xmas :eek: and I need to do it on a budget - so, it can't be too expensive and too slow:o

Any help, tips and links to bargain would be really appreciated .... Thanks!

If it is any help, I have some amazon vouchers and a £5 play.com voucher (but that runs out today :rolleyes:

Thanks again!

Ally

Anyone????

alanobrien

Ally wrote:

I need to get one ASAP and I am not sure what I need to be looking at!!

Can any DVD discs work on any DVD writer?

What I need is a good quality writer that I can get home movies onto - Is it possible to get 3 hours onto one disc? (it was a long party:rolleyes: ) I wil probably need the max storage on a disc. I need to get the writer, discs, copy the movies and post them by next week so they get to family in time for Xmas :eek: and I need to do it on a budget - so, it can't be too expensive and too slow:o

Any help, tips and links to bargain would be really appreciated .... Thanks!

If it is any help, I have some amazon vouchers and a £5 play.com voucher (but that runs out today :rolleyes:

Thanks again!

I got an email from aria who are doing some good deals on external USB DVD RW drives there is a usb2 samsung here;

http://www.aria.co.uk/DealForToday.asp

at £50 inc vat it has write support for DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW and CD-R, CD-RW discs - worth a look !

laney66

Bought a Liteon from my local Maplins on Monday. Seems pretty good so far. Burns DVD at 16x and CD at 48x suporting both + and - format discs. On offer at £59.99 at the moment. If buying online it should be free delivery as its over £35.

Hope that helps.

Ally

Thanks guys .... will check them out. there's one on Amazon for under £50, but someone mentioned in the review section that it doesn't work well with XP, which is what we have!

what's the + and - thing for or about

is it one that you can write on only once, and the other you can re-record data on it

probably a daft question right

laney66

Ally wrote:

Thanks guys .... will check them out. there's one on Amazon for under £50, but someone mentioned in the review section that it doesn't work well with XP, which is what we have!

what's the + and - thing for or about

is it one that you can write on only once, and the other you can re-record data on it

probably a daft question right

Not sure what the + and - is for. It depends what your dvd player accepts. Some play both format, some either one or the other. +r/-r is write once and +rw/-rw is rewriteable. Hope that makes sense to you.

Ally

laney66 wrote:

+r/-r is write once and +rw/-rw is rewriteable.

Thanks ... I can't see right! couldn't see the difference at first :rotfl:

Number_6_3

Try https://www.svp.co.uk for disks.

Worth signing up to their newsletter as there are regular incentives...

There are suggestions on what disks work with which players but most are for internal drives.

HTH

R

Ally

missed the deadline
Gonna check out the above again and place an order tonight. Found one with good reviews on Amazon, but delivery is up to 2 weeks!!!

thanks again guys!