Burning DVDs
To burn a CD or DVD (using your computer to write files to a CD or DVD disk using a ‘laser’), you need:
- electricity or a really big battery
- a computer
- a CD or DVD-burner (don’t waste your money on a CD burner, go for the DVD burner)
- blank CDs or DVDs (CD burners only burn to CDs, DVD burners burn to DVDs and CDs)
- software for burning
- files to burn
Hopefully, you already have #1 and #2, but for the burner, click here. Blank DVD disks can be purchased locally or at K-Mart, Target, etc. or online. Nearly all the DVD burners sold now are multi-format, meaning they burn to all types of disks (+R, -R, +RW, -RW, DL, and CDs).
Installation directions can be found here.
Software should come with your burner, but if not, you can right-click on any file and click send-to, and then click on your CD or DVD drive. Windows will then prompt you to burn those files to disk. For CD and DVD software, go here.
You can surely handle accumulating the files needed to burn to a disk (family pictures, backup copies of your DVDs, TV shows you downloaded, etc.).