Recent content by abbarich

Many thanks for the replies. I thought it might be an incompatibility issue. I was hoping to make my parents a copy of my Sister's wedding (from over 20 years ago) which they only have on VHS, but I'll have to find another way. They have a good player, Toshiba, not a cheap one,so not sure if...

I have burned several family videos (Sister's wedding etc) onto dvd-r using my laptop (Lenovo). They play perfectly on my Panasonic dvd player which is only a cheap player, but when I took them to my parents house they wouldn't play on their dvd player which is Toshiba and more expensive, being...

Thanks for that. I don't have a dvd recorder, so I'm burning the disc on my laptop which has a built in dvd recorder. I've converted it to mpeg and the disc played fine on my dvd player, so I was able to watch it on my TV. I didn't get a message about the disc being finalised though and I can't...

I'm about to copy some family videos onto a dvd-r, but I'm not sure how and if I need to finalise the disc. I'll be burning the disc on my laptop with the ashampoo burning studio which was a free download. I've practised on a dvd rw and it turned out fine. When the disc was finished, it said...

Thanks for the reply. I've got one video that is 3 hours 45 minutes long. It's telling me that it's 1.45 GB, so am I right in thinking this will fit on a 120 min dvd-r as the file is less than 4.7 GB. Do I have to do anything extra to make it fit or will it be ok? Also, the dvd rw that I...

I've got some family videos I'd like to burn onto dvd-r's. Some are various lengths. Will I have a problem with the longer videos, some of which are about 3 hours long. The dvd-r's I've bought are verbatim and they are 4.7GB, but it does say 120 mins on the discs. I did experiment on a dvd rw...

Thanks for the replies. These are legal dvds I have bought from Warner Brothers. I collect old movies, and some of these are from the 1930s. They are dvd-r though and I have heard they won't last forever, possibly 10 years at most. I've had some of them years and I'd hate to lose them so I want...

Hi, I've bought several warner archive dvd-r's, but as they are dvd-r I'm not sure how long they will last. Can anyone advise me of the best way to keep these in a library on my laptop (windows 8), and how will I be able to make another copy when the existing one is no longer readable. I've...