can someone tell me please what the difference is between a cd and dvd re-writer.
i mean can you burn movies with a cd re-writer and then play them on a dvd machine?
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can someone tell me please what the difference is between a cd and dvd re-writer.
i mean can you burn movies with a cd re-writer and then play them on a dvd machine?
CD writer writes to blank CD media: 700 MB
DVD writer writes to blank DVD media: 4.7 GB
i didnt fully understand the above, can you explain in thick peoples english please. what i mean to say is that can you burn movies and music using a cd writer?
there is a much smaller format of video called video cd (vcd for short) which is a lot lower quality than a dvd video. you can burn a movie with a cd-writer that will work on some dvd players which support vcd's. With a dvd player you burn real dvds with high quality video that will work on most dvd players that support dvd-r\+r (dvd -r or +r is a recordable dvd).
Storage wise, if you wanted to burn a disc with data on it (such as pictures\games etc) then a cd rewriter can burn 700mb of data (typically one game cd) while a dvd can burn 4.7gb\5828mb of data (typically around 8 game cds or 2000 mp3's :) )
if you cna afford to buy a dvd-writer. If you want help choosing one(if you decide to buy it that is) come back here and some people will help you choose one.
thats the most common myth with dvd burners, people think that you need a dvd-rw to make dvds, thats very untrue...there are several methods of "converting" videos (from kazaa, based on how you talk) into "dvd" format...
CD-RW, are the most common drives, they can read and write normal CD-R/W usally $50-100USD
ad:cheaper, and more common
dis:smaller amounts of data on cds
DVD-RW are newer and not so common, they can read and write normal CD-R/W and DVD-R/W, they go for $150-400USD
ad: hold larger amounts of data
dis:more expensive and slower write speeds
okay, now i understand , thank you all but just one last thing, what is a cd writer and dvd combo? i am assuming this is a cd writer and a dvd player only (not a dvd writer)
correct a combo drive can burn cd-r\rw's and also read regular dvd but not burn them. still good to have though if you want to watch dvds on your computer.
yep, cd-rw and dvd combo is a cd burner and dvd rom