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bigboy4
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_ 		7. February 2003 @ 14:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I came across this forum and figured I'd ask a bunch of things for clarification. Is copying a DVD on DVD-RW drive possible? Do you need to rip the information onto the hard drive first and then encode it to burn it with a DVD-RW? If you had an additional DVD-ROM drive could you copy the DVD straight from that to the DVD-RW? Do you even require a DVD-ROM to do that (IOW would a regular CD-ROM or CD-RW work?)? I'm just asking because I am clueless to how the DVD burners work. I just want to find out their pro's and con's so I can consider it when I'm building a new computer.

Thanks in advance
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SpannerBr
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_ 		10. February 2003 @ 03:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
BigBoy,

A DVD Burner is very similar to a CD Burner. You can get away with just having a DVD Burner, you wouldn't need a DVD Rom drive as the burner could do that. The standard process is to rip everything to your hardisc.. ensure the disc is under 4.7GB (there are tons of guides on the net to do this part) and then burn onto a DVD-R or RW.

If you had a DVD Rom drive aswell as a DVD burner, then asuming the disc you want to copy is under 4.7Gb, you could copy on the fly. But unless you are planning on burning tons of discs, its not really worth it.

Final thing.. most DVD burners (if not all) will burn CDs aswell (though be careful if you use CloneCD and make game backups, as a lot of DVD burners are very poor for this), so chances are you will not need a CDR.

In short you can get away with just a DVD burner and no other drives.
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malum
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_ 		10. February 2003 @ 06:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You can't burn anything on the fly that is encrypted, which is just about every film.
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