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Can I burn a DVD-R DL 8.5GB Disk on my PC?

Started by chipper1 , Feb 27 2012 01:26 PM

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 01:26 PM

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Just wondering if anyone knows if I can burn that type of disk on my PC, I know I can burn a DVD-RW 4.7 disk but what about a DVD-R DL 8.5GB Disk or a DVD+R DL 8.5 these disk http://www.google.co...t:429,r:3,s:0??

Here are my PC Specs

HL-DT-ST DVD-RW_GSA-H41N ATA Device

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 01:27 PM

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Here are my PC Specs

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 05:18 PM

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According to the specs on your burner it does say you can burn DL disks.
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 05:51 PM

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According to the specs on your burner it does say you can burn DL disks.


Someone told me that my drive is NOT DVD-R Dual Layer compatible according to this? Can you show me where on this it says my drive IS DVD-R Dual Layer compatible to burn onto?

http://burners.burn4...rw_gsa-h41n.htm


PC SPEC (specInfo)
CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
MB: Acer (EM61SM/EM61PM )
RAM: 2814mb
HDD: 149gb (ST316081 2AS SCSI Disk Device)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 405
Sound: Realtek High Definition Audio
OS: Windows Vista ™ Home Premium (6002)
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 05:57 PM

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Write support:
CDR
CDRW
DVD-
DVD-RW
DVD+
DVD+RW
DVD+DL


Read support:
CDR
CDRW
DVD-
DVD-RW
DVDRAM
DVD+
DVD+RW
DVD+DL


No it won't do rewritable but only one time writable type.
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 06:01 PM

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Thaks, but that is not DVD-R its only DVD+R is that right? Or should it still work?
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 06:20 PM

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It should still work
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 09:43 PM

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OK thanks, I dont suppose you know how to burn a video to DVD and could maybe talk me through it? Maybe via skype?
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:35 PM

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Don't use Skype and it will all depend on what program you are using. Most have a option to burn video to dvd. It really depends on what format the video is in.
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Posted 02 March 2012 - 11:29 AM

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go here to afterdawn guides...everything you need to know on how to*.* playing, burning,copying is there
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