burn DVD-R with a cd writer

[indolikaa]

I just read all of this topic and am disappointed at most of the people and their replies. People should not flip out at other users who are newbies just because they ask strange questions. There are a lot of weird things that happen on PCs and in everyday life that eventually cause them to question what can actually be done. All that "End, Period, Disconnect...short answer no" is just retarded. Just be polite and answer the damn question! The forums on MSFN are much more polite than these ones. Grow up and respect each other more.

I was polite. I answered the 'damn question' without insulting the guy's intelligence. The answer to his question could have easily been found with a FORUM SEARCH. It's not rocket science.

I admire your Holy Crusade to Protect the Ignorant, but if you're going to suggest I am retarded because I chose to make humor out of this guy's situation, why don't you drive down to the local mini-mart and buy yourself a 64-ounce glass of Shut The **** Up!

Go back to MSN, wanker.

[ricky1756]

that's why the 40 dvds i burnt in my cd burner wouldn't work, and all this time i thought it was bad media. damn, now i'll have to cancel that order for a 100 riteks

[DVDDave]

next some dumb son of a bitch is gonna ask "how to make a coaster".

[maek]

You know, I would have to agree with everyone here regarding the responses.

I, for one, will take a newbie's side MOST of the time when the question is innocent enough and they are completely new to the site, (hey, everyone can use a friendly reminder regarding this forum) but this has to be one of the few times that I make an exception.

Hell, he did not even have to read the forums or the guides. HE COULD HAVE READ THE BOX THAT THE CD BURNER CAME IN, OR THE GUIDES THAT CAME ALONG WITH THE PRE-PACKAGED COMPUTER, since I can't imagine anyone not knowing this actually put the computer together.

"Let's see...my CD burner can do CD-R, CD-RW...hmmm, that's all. Hey!! I know! Maybe in some insane, covert government scheme my burner can do DVD-R's too and they are HIDING it!! I mean, if it COULD do DVD-R's, they would only MAKE money if they had advertised it, right?!? Man, are the people at work going to be jealous of ME when they found out I saved $69.99 plus tax?!??"

I apologize to the original poster of this question, but that question is just pure...I don't think there's an English word for it. Even the simple act of putting a blank DVD in the drive (if you could have spared $1 or $2) could have answered the question.

[yoda313]

EDIT ---- COOL! THIS IS MY 500TH POST!!!-----



Hello,
Well guys, MAYBE he meant could you burn MINI DVDS???? Oh well, maybe that wasn't the original intent
Kevin

EDIT ---- 500 isn't bad for someone who's only been signed up for the forum for two months!------

[DVDDave]

here is another dumbass question that will eventually asked: "How can I fit one DVD onto my compact flash card?".

[indolikaa]

here is another dumbass question that will eventually asked: "How can I fit one DVD onto my compact flash card?".

Hey, wait! That CAN be done. You'd be surprised at the quality you can get out of a DVD-5 stored to a 2.2GB MicroDrive using DVD Shrink!



Not that I wasted the money on the MD just to test this theory, of course...

[lordsmurf]

I put a movie on my 1GB MicroDrive once. It makes for an excellent laptop hard drive on long trips.

[haloblack]

I just read all of this topic and am disappointed at most of the people and their replies.

You must be new here.

Just be polite and answer the damn question!

post of the year.

[tperricone]

Holy crap, how do you make it out of bed in the morning. This is just like those people who wanted to copy a dvd to cdr with absolutely no video loss, but still play it on a standalone player (this being of course before recent divx players hit the market). Oyy you can pick up dvd burners as cheap as $40 on ebay. Bite the bullet and purchase a burner.

[maek]

Is there anyway that I can burn a DVD-R on my Commodore 64 and my 1541 disk drive? I don't want to buy a Commodore 128 if I don't have to.

[Byronleehk]

Is there anyway that I can burn a DVD-R on my Commodore 64 and my 1541 disk drive? I don't want to buy a Commodore 128 if I don't have to.

Of course you can...

Actually you can BURN anything with ANYTHING, just find the heat source and you can BURN all you want, but be careful you may end up burning down your own house

[gitreel]

Is there anyway that I can burn a DVD-R on my Commodore 64 and my 1541 disk drive? I don't want to buy a Commodore 128 if I don't have to.

Why stop there?

I want to burn a dual layer dvd using an atari 2600. :P

[anubis13]

canyou burn a dual layer DVD with a UNIVAC 1100 series mainframe?

[kosekjm]

next some dumb son of a bitch is gonna ask "how to make a coaster".

How do you make a coaster, since I seem to have broken my 48X coffee cup holder off of the front of my computer :P

kosekjm

[CarterZ]

Sigh

CZ

[davemcg37]

oscar wallace----ur a knob!

[hudsonf]

It's very easy to burn a DVD in a CD burner. All you have to do is take the insides of a DVD burner and swap them into a CD burner. While I'm on the subject of burning; I'm having a party today. How do you burn coasters? I don't want people ruining my furniture with their drinks.

[dafoe]

WTF are you people talking about. EVERY DVD burner also burns CD's.

All the newer models do. But I have a 1x that cost well over $400 when I first bought it. It burns only DVD-R and does not burn rewritables.

Secondly, I agree with the last reply. I find it hard to believe that the poster is that stupid. They're probably just jerking our chains

[Sam Ontario]

He is testing how offensive can be here, by assuming an ignorant!

[Alan69]

Guys, he did ask this:

is there *any* way this is possible ???????????? I'd kinda rather avoid buying a DVD-writer right now.

thanks,
Stolldogg

Technically, yes there probably is a way, but likely beyond your doing it. If you want to attempt, just break yourCD firmware to leave the laser on and max down on the optics servo to get near the DVD burn layer vs the CD one. Wrong wavelength and focal distance, but it would probably eventually do something to the writing layer. You would technically have burned your DVD, although it'll be a bad burn for sure. Totally worthless stunt, like playing music on a floppy drive by banging the head at kilohertz against the stop, but probably possible in this poor way..

Sad thing is it would even have equal performance to some actual DVD drive and media combinations. As in 100% bad.

[stolldogg]

You actually can do it without all that silliness that's been mentioned. My Optorite CD burner also happens to burn DVDs, and that was fresh out of the box with no modifications.

What type of burner do you have?

Supreme 2K
, thanks for not being a wise ass like some of the other posters, ..I mean I have been making video compilations on my computer USING MY CD WRITER( sony crx-175e)and was just curious about other options fdor making watchable video discs. I can buy a dvd-writer no problem..but i was just tryin to get around it for now

anyway, like i said - i have a Sony CRX_175e

[stolldogg]

Holy crap, how do you make it out of bed in the morning. This is just like those people who wanted to copy a dvd to cdr with absolutely no video loss, but still play it on a standalone player (this being of course before recent divx players hit the market). Oyy you can pick up dvd burners as cheap as $40 on ebay. Bite the bullet and purchase a burner.

...how do I make it out of bed in the morning????
Is there anything YOU might ever have a question about??????Or do you not ask questions??Do you not need to know anything else???Please answer this.

[maek]

Heavy, prolonged EXASPERATED sigh

Ok, look. It must be a DVD-burner because DVD burners BURN DVD's as well as CD's. It's not, and never has been, a "VICE VERSA" issue.

However, I will refrain from addressing the

wise ass

comment and provide you with a helpful link that took me approximately 19 seconds to investigate on Google. Keep in mind that this is your player:

http://sony.storagesupport.com/cdrw/downloads/crx175m/crx175mc10_rev1web_data.pdf

As you can see, it burns CD's, not DVD's. DVD's are not mentioned on here anywhere and I doubt Sony would be in the business of denying themselves that corner of the market without advertising it. Translation: "I doubt that anyone would be stupid enough to advertise silver when they have platinum." Savvy?

I'm normally not a nasty person, and this site has a few, but mostly people here have a sense of humor. So, please reserve your comments if you can't even show the decency of trying to research it yourself as I have.

[gitreel]

I answered it in my first post.

To burn dvds, you must have a dvd burner, not a cd burner.

There was nothing smartass about it. That is just the way it is.

A dvd burner will burn dvds and cds.
A cd burner will only burn cds.

Thanks stolldogg for calling me a smartass.
I answered your question and get labled a jerk.

You know in your mind that was a stupid question. If cd burners burned dvds , then we would not need dvd burners.

[jameshgross]

The very asking of such a question indicates that the original poster did not make any effort to research the answer on this site. If I remember correctly this has been answered several hundered times.
If the replies seem a little hostile or the poster is getting flamed that is not the fault of of those replying but of the original poster asking a really nonsensical question.
This question is in the same class as the question Can I use deisel and gas in my car? I say try it and see what happens.

[gitreel]

You actually can do it without all that silliness that's been mentioned. My Optorite CD burner also happens to burn DVDs, and that was fresh out of the box with no modifications.

What type of burner do you have?

Supreme 2K
, thanks for not being a wise ass like some of the other posters, ..I mean I have been making video compilations on my computer USING MY CD WRITER( sony crx-175e)and was just curious about other options fdor making watchable video discs. I can buy a dvd-writer no problem..but i was just tryin to get around it for now

anyway, like i said - i have a Sony CRX_175e

The point he was trying to make stolldogg, was that supreme has a dvd burner. He was asking you what model you had in case it was already a dvd burner.

[stolldogg]

Okay,
Here's my last response to my thread. Since I have made some video compilations on my computer using my cd burner i thought MAYBE there was a way to fit more media onto a larger capacity disc(like a dvd-r) . I have lots of video clips taking up space on my computer and WAS ONLY CURIOUS to see if there was a way to do that using my cd writer. Yeah, I could have researched it or "googled " it or done a search on this forum or all these forums( which i did earlier today and STILL wasn't satisfied with the results , ..so i figured i'd go straight to the experts and ask someone /people who could have a clear and concise answer for me without treating me like I was some god damned MORON and going out of their way to make fun of me. I would have settled for a " yes, you can ..use XXXX software" or " no, you can't..that would be cool though . You can get a XXXXX DVD burner at Fry's for 99 dollars. Check it out".
But instead I got a bunch of people spending way too much time trying to get laughs at my expense or what ever. I mean, if I had knowledge of Fitness tips or Car repair or travel discounts and one of them wrote in asking something I wouldn just answer their question and leave it at that.


sorry, for my error

[presto]

Some programs claim you can make a DVD with a CD burner. What they are talking about is using DVD video standards which of course make a very short playing "DVD".

Also some programs advertise in huge letters (retail box version) that you can back up your DVD's with no need to buy a DVD burner. Here they are talking about making a VCD or SVCD.

I don't think it's such a crazy question for a newbie to ask. On the other hand as someone else mentioned the question was answered pretty early on and then it was just a lot of in-crowd sarcasm (which is ok by me).

[maek]

My contention is that if it was hard to find "burn a DVD with a CD-burner" on the search engine, then one of 2 things is possible:

1. The question never came up before because no one has ever dreamed up a question of its like. In other words, it's almost akin to a question like, "Can I put a 5-1/4 inch floppy in my 3.5-inch floppy drive?" If I didn't find an immediate search result to the question, then I would have quietly looked up specs on my 3.5-inch floppy drive (i.e., what media does it accept) before launching myself head first into the lion's head, as it were.

or

2. No one has ever thought of a particularly unusual issue.

While this question does qualify as 1 and 2 (I certainly never thought of it), situation 1, in my mind, should have been readily apparent. Even inserting a DVD into the drive would have been a quick way of testing the waters.

I don't consider myself an expert, but I have someone at work who occasionally needs help with e-mail and when I posed the question to him, even he gave me a rather quizzical "are you joking" look.

The fact of the matter is that I was only responding with a little humor and if it came across as being antagonistic, I apologize.

I do agree that it's possible to place a "small" DVD movie as described on a CD, and I can understand if THAT was the question, but that was not the issue as originally phrased.

And a final note: please don't tell me that you did any amount of research...a Google search did it for me, and if you went to the trouble to find this site, you certainly could have gone to the trouble of finding the site that I found above.

That's my 2 cents. I'm done.[/b]