What is a DVD Burner?
A DVD burner is an optical drive that uses a laser to read and record CDs and DVDs (digital versatile discs). DVD burners are superior to CD burners because of the amount of information a DVD can hold. While a CD is limited to around 80MB of data, a standard DVD can hold 4GB and a dual-layer DVD stores up to 8.5GB. This extra space makes a DVD burner an essential tool for creating permanent backups of files and programs. Beyond backups, the fun of a DVD burner is the ability to create DVDs that you can watch on TV or share with friends. A DVD burner will also write CDs, allowing you to create custom mixes from a digital music collection. Write Speed Nobody wants to wait all day for a DVD, so write speeds, or the time it takes for DVD burner to create a DVD, are increasing. A 16x or 20x write speed should be a minimum, and a DVD burner will support incredibly fast write speeds for CDs, up to 64x.
A DVD burner is an innovative device that is used for burning (a.k.a. encoding) data onto a blank recordable DVD. DVDs are one form of storage media that take the shape of a flat circle that looks very similar to our already common CD. DVDs are about five inches in diameter and can hold up to five gigabytes of data. Five gigabytes is equal to about three hours worth of high-quality video (think HD or professionally produced films) and nearly seventy-five hours worth of MP3 data.
A DVD burner is a device used to encode or “burn” information onto a blank DVD. A DVD is a form of storage media 12 cm (4.72 inches) or 8 cm (3.15 inches) across that can typically hold 4.7 gigabytes (GB) of information, enough to hold a three-hour movie at high quality, or ten TV episodes, or about 75 hours of .mp3 files, or roughly 15 hours of video in the lower-grade .avi format. The DVD is thought of as the successor to the conventional CD (compact disk). Common formats include DVD-R and DVD-RW, a rewritable version of the DVD. Each DVD generally costs about US$1, or even less when bought in bulk. DVD-RWs are about US$2 each. The cost of these storage media has fallen rapidly throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, and continues to become more affordable as manufacturing costs diminish. The DVD burner allows this storage medium to become even more flexible than before. DVD initially was supposed to stand for digital video disc, but because it can hold any type of data, not just
