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How Do I Check Whether I Have A DVD Writer?

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I have 2 CD drives on my computer and I want to put some movies from my PC on to DVD so that I can watch them on my TV using a DVD player.

I don't know whether I have a drive that is able to burn a movie to a blank DVD though and was wondering how I would be able to check whether I have one or not.


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You can either look on the front of the drive, looking for the DVD Rom and RW logos. Or, you can look in the Device Manager under DVD/CDROM drives. Your drives will be listed there, and it will tell you if it's DVDRW.
i found that everest can give you details of burn speeds or whether it's ROM
I believe that, in order to be able to view a DVD on a home DVD player, having a DVD Recorder in your PC is only half of the equation; the other half being that you'll also need some kind of DVD Authoring software in order to create a DVD that will work on your Player.

In case there's no DVD Recorder in your PC but you do have a CD Recorder, another option for you (in case the size of your movies permit it AND your DVD Player supports VCDs) is to create Video CDs instead.
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