Re: burning tv to DVD

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From: Barry Watzman (WatzmanNOSPAM_at_neo.rr.com)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 20:31:03 -0500
To: corshnic <corshnic@discussions.microsoft.com>

You don't. THe only time optical media needs to be "formatted" is when
you are using CD-RW media for UDF burning (packet writing), a practice
that I recommend never doing (this is where you can "burn" things simply
by dragging and dropping them on the burner drive in my computer).

I also recommend not using rewriteable optical media for anything that
you want to keep long term.

The two-CD version of MCE has no ability to burn DVDs. There's a 3rd
disc that is sometimes available to some OEM customers that has a
burning package on it by Sonic (it can be bought separately, but it's
$60). Alternatively, the latest versions of the Roxio and Nero products
can reportedly burn video DVDs directly from DVR-MS files.

If you are going to do any DVD burning, I'd recommend that you have
either the Roxio or Nero product (if not both of them).

corshnic wrote:

> Ok, starting to feel really dumb here. My DVD drive is an Double layer
> DVD+RW drive. This is my first time working with DVD's. I don't recall ever
> having to pre-format a CD-R before. How do you format a DVD? Elsewhere in
> this string people were talking about buying additional programs to make this
> work. Do I have to purchase more software?
>
> Some help is greatly appreciated!
>
> "corshnic" wrote:
>
>
>>I tried burning a tv program I recorded with mce using a DVD+RW disc and was
>>unable to. MCE the disk was an incompatible format. What format do I need
>>to use. I'm trying to cut costs by reusing one DVD for frequently recorded
>>TV shows.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rick

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