what is the cheapest dvd writer with built in harddrive i can buy?
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Hi. Asda have a rather natty Goodmans machine with an 80GB hard drive, dvd burner and can read all formats of disc including CDs - all for £130! You could even use it as your CD player. Not seen a better price for an acceptable machine, hope this helps. Regards, Steve.
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Yes, you will need burner software and and a DVD Writer.  Roxio EZCD and Nero are popular burning programs.
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The only viable option besides copying to the hard drive is the Disc Stakka from Imation. See more info here: http://www.imation.com.au/products/disc_stakka/index.htm\nhttp://www.imation.com/products/disc_stakka/index.html\n\nAdded the U.S. link. My mistake.
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yea, what you have is a so called Combo-Drive and they can not burn DVDs. If you don't want change this drive, then you have to get an external DVD ReWriter with a USB 2.0 interface.\n\nThe DVD Burner from Amazon you mentioned is the WRONG one (it's only for internal use). What you need is this one\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1544661&CatId=483\nbtw, at a nice price.
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Can read and write to DVD-R,RW+/-,RAM...basically all the formats available.
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yes you are missing something... you need a DVD-R/W to write DVDs....
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There are several - Nero is OK ,Roxio Easy CD/DVD is another and another I`ve used is DVDCopy
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Look over the list here, sort by rating, get one of the better drives with more reviews. \nhttp://www.videohelp.com/dvdwriters\n\nNote: you want a drive that supports "DL" - DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, for example.  "DL" means dual layer.  Generally, the higher the number preceding it, the better.  For example, a 4X DVD-R DL will write a DVD twice as fast as a 2X DVD-R DL.
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I use a software program I got for free a couple of years ago called DVD SHRINK...This software will allow you to put a dvd movie on your hard drive and also allow you to burn to dvd disc if you want. You can use DVD-,DVD+,or DVD's you buy or rent...its a wonderful program...do a Yahoo Search and look for the free download....
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You've got a really good driver. Unlike regular DVD writers and readers, DVD-RAM has the ability to have data overwritten 100,000 times compared to the DVD burners we have in most computers. The writing speed is a little slower, but its a lot more versatile. I'm just learning about it right now too.\n\nYou will be able to burn and read DVDs, and you dont need a special software like most of us do. You can basically burn things into your DVD as if its an extra hard drive. Its a pretty spectacular driver.\n\n\n********************************\nCompared with other writeable DVDs, DVD-RAM is more closely related to hard disk technology, as it has concentric tracks instead of one long spiral track. Unlike the competing formats DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD-RW, special DVD burning software is not required to write or read DVD-RAMs on a computer. DVD-RAMs can be accessed like a usual floppy disk or hard drive. Go ahead and play your game, you have all the capabilities of a DVD writer/reader on your DVD-RAM driver, but with a lot more options and with more convenience.\n\nA DVD format wherein DVD-RAM discs can be recorded and erased repeatedly but are only compatible with devices manufactured by the companies that support the DVD-RAM format.\n\nDVD-RAM 1.0 \nSingle-sided, one layer discs with a capacity of 2.58 GB \nDouble-sided one layer discs with a capacity of 5.16 GB \nDVD-RAM 2.0 \nSingle-sided, one layer discs with a capacity of 4.7 GB \nDouble-sided one layer discs with a capacity of 9.4 GB
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Buy a Hewlett Packard lightscribe DVD R/RW or equivalent. They are only about £35 or so and are the nhottest new thing. You burn the disc one side then you turn it over and burn a title and/or logo on the other side. No colour and you have to buy their own cdrs but doesnt use ink. \nThe alternative is to buy a label maker which I find are rubbish becuase the labels cmoe off, or you buy a CD printer which is a fortune. As for software, "Nero" will do that for you amongst other things and its a great peice of software.
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You need\n1- DVD driver\n2- WinXP\n3- 128 MB RAM\n4- 5 GB free hard space\n5- Special Software like NeroExpress\n6- You need to mark me as best answer too\n\nXLMan
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A DVD Writer is the ultimate drive available at the moment it can do everything read DVD'S, write DVD'S, read CD's and write CD's.\n\nA Combi Drive is usually a CD Writer and A DVD Rom drive in one, which means it can only Read DVD's and write and read CD's.\n\nBasically a Combi drive cannot write DVD's.
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go to download.com and type dvd burners into their search bar . you will get  agood few but at mo nero is prob best
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HP makes an external DVD-RW drive that has Lightscribe technology. This is the feature that, if you have the correct discs, allows you to burn the DVD data, then turn over the disc in the drive, and burn a title and images into the label side of the disc. It sure looks better than stick-on labels or writing on it with a Sharpie, IMHO. (I have one as an internal drive in my own HP Pavilion.)\n\nThe retail price for the external version, at least at Wal-Mart, is around $130.00 or so.\n\nI don't know for sure of it's compatibility with a laptop, but since the external version connects by USB, I think it would be fine.
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actually i use NEC ND-4551 Dual Layer DVD±R/W/DL 16X \nbut Plextor is the best ,its little expensive but if u wanna use it for a long time buy a plextor
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many laptops come w/ a combo drive cd writer and dvdrom unless it is a top of the line model you usually had to pay extra for an internal dvd burner. either way you can check it in your device manager. go to control panel >System > Hardware tab then click on device manager. Then expand the dvd/cd rom and look at what type of drive you have. If you don't have a dvd burner there are several usb and firewire dvd burners available fairly cheaply.